RBERNing Questions
RBERNing Questions is a professional learning podcast, produced by Mid-State RBERN, where we answer your most compelling questions about teaching, serving, and supporting multilingual learners. We connect teachers and leaders of English Language Learners (ELLs) and Multilingual Learners (MLs) with experts in our field who will address timely and specific questions relating to instructional practices, teacher collegiality, and outreach to students and their families.
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RBERNing Questions
Assets Based Pedagogy: Tapping into your Students’ Magic w/Joy Scantlebury
Episode Summary:
Today we welcome Joy Scantlebury as she discusses how immersive classroom experiences and “living the language” led to her career as an educator of ELLs who’s been refining her craft for 15 years. A prevailing theme in Joy’s work is using students’ cultural resources and languages to enhance their learning experiences. In this episode, she highlights the benefits of bringing these resources into the classroom, and shares specific examples of how you can also implement this asset based and student centered methodology with the plethora of resources your ELLs bring into the school environment. She unpacks how to recognize and foster organic, “magical moments” as opportunities for students to learn and play a crucial role in their academic development. To better understand how to use your students’ goals, aspirations and passions to empower and encourage them on their learning journeys, listen in now!
RBERNing Questions for this Episode:
1- A prevailing theme in your work is about using the resources that students bring to the classroom environment to enhance their learning. Can you talk about 3 such examples of these resources and how you’ve incorporated them into your lessons?
2- You were part of a group of authors who co-wrote the NYS TESOL e-book: Supporting Student Success Through Community Asset Mapping. What inspired this project, and can you give us one key nugget that educators can glean from this work to help them enhance their methodology in class?
Guest Bio:
Joy Scantlebury has always been interested in different cultures and second language acquisition, having gone to Sao Paulo, Brazil as a student ambassador while a junior in high school. As an undergraduate student at Smith College with a minor in Spanish, Joy also traveled to San Jose, Costa Rica, where she volunteered at a daycare center. In Brazil, she acquired a working knowledge of Portuguese, and in Costa Rica, Spanish. In fact, she realized the importance of living the language. Joy has been an English as a New Language (ENL) teacher at Pocantico Hills School for 15 years. She has an MA in TESOL from Teachers College and an MS in Education from SUNY New Paltz. Joy understands the challenges her students face in acquiring a new language since she has also been in their shoes.
Resources:
Websites/Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-scantlebury-27ab78a
School Newsletter: https://www.pocanticohills.org/Page/179
Publications
Supporting Student Success Through Community Asset Mapping: A NYS TESOL E-Book - Tapping into English Language Learners’ Superpowers through Creative Storytelling
Growing Up in an Immigrant Household and Community: Essays by Descendants of Immigrants- “Bajan Memories: Always in My Heart”- edited by Vicky Giouroukakis
Article in NYS TESOL’s Idiom - Summer 2017 - Taking Cues from Our ELLs
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