EFFECTS OF SHELTERED INSTRUCTION ON ELL ENGAGEMENT 2

Through my experiences as a teacher and as a guest teacher, I found a lack of engagement on the part of English language learners in the general education classroom. With an ongoing increase in ELL populations, teachers will need to be prepared to fit the demand of their students. The intent of this research project was to look at a specific ELL strategy, sheltered Instruction, and how it affected the active engagement of ELL students in the classroom. The research took place in a second grade classroom and focused on one ELL student deemed highly disengaged during most classroom activities. With the use of video transcripts, field observations, interviews, and the collection of student artifacts I was able to determine that the use of Sheltered Instructional strategies had