This capstone portfolio demonstrates my professional knowledge and practices of serving English language learners (ELL) in international settings. In this portfolio, there are three major sections. In the first section, ...

Observations of six middle and high school Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools classrooms in the fall of 2007 raised questions about the clarity of the secondary ESL curriculum and about the knowledge that ESL teachers ...

This essay seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge of how to successfully engage language minority students in the study of history. It is separated into four distinct sections, each containing findings from ...

Increasing Reading Motivation Through Successful Experiences: Helping English Language Learners Be Successful Readers Anastasia Erickson Vanderbilt University Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide a ...

The following document includes a collection of Artifacts that demonstrate my ability to meet the needs of English Language Learners. I prove my knowledge of language acquisition and appropriate language teaching by providing ...

This paper was my Teaching and Learning Department capstone project, giving examples of how to best incorporate children's literature into an elementary classroom. Also discussed is how these practices can help ELLs. Such ...

This portfolio consists of my philosophy of teaching both generally and in the ESL classroom, as well as artifacts demonstrating my professional knowledge of the TESOL standards. The picture that this portfolio paints ...

This Capstone Portfolio delineates my journey towards teaching excellence. First, I describe my teaching philosophy, which is informed by coursework and refined by practice during my time in the ELL program at Vanderbilt ...