One summer, I offered to teach summer school in Muscatine, Iowa for the migrant children of southeast Iowa. It was just after 3 o'clock, the students were exhausted and ready to go home after a long day, and the buses were en route to school. All of a sudden, the tornado sirens went off! We got the students lined up, hunched over and covering their heads in front of the lockers in the hallway. The students had mixed emotions. During the 45 minute real tornado, some students fell asleep while on their knees, other students cried because they were scared. I stupidly stood and watched the funnel cloud fly past the school, instead of joining the students on the ground. It was a crazy memory that nobody will forget!
Advice for Teachers:
Make modifications and/or accommodations for students based on their ESL levels. For example, WIDA states that students can do different tasks at the different levels:
At level 1, students can Matching key content-related terms and ideas to images, graphs, icons, or diagrams.
At level 2, students can locate main ideas in a series of related sentences.
At level 3, students can identify detailed descriptions, procedures, and information in paragraphs.
At level 4, students can create narrative or informational extended text of past events or experiences.
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