1. America meets Holland
Colleen & Franca

2. What did we Dutchies give to America??

3. New York

4. Teddy Roosevelt

5. Santa!

6. The Incredible Dr. Pol

7. What did America give us??

8. Colleen!

9. Franca Why did we choose to have an ETA? Motivations / considerations
TTO
The importance of English
Motivations / considerations
Why did we choose Colleen?
How do we utilise the ETA
The benefits of having Colleen in our team
Teachers and students feedback

10. Colleen’S experiences
Motivation for selecting the Netherlands:
Highly ranked education system  Desire to learn “what’s working” and bring it back to US
Reputation as a tolerant, progressive society
Accessible to rest of Europe and US
First impressions / first week at the school:
Yikes! Not knowing Dutch is more ovewhelming than I thought it would be … what’s going on??
The school system is very different than the US’s … what’s going on??

11. Colleen’S experiences
Work:
Co-teaching is fun and teaches me a lot about instruction in Holland
Small group instruction gives more individualized student attention and practice
Meetings to create schedule for each period and set up focus skills for each class (reading, writing, speaking, etc)
Interaction with the students / language barriers
Most students started out very nervous to speak English, but are opening up
Top performing students help me translate to lower performers
Kids are kids … most students (although they are a bit older) behave the same as US students, which makes things easier (I know what will be fun, where there will be challenges, how to respond)

12. Examples of lessons Novel Groups Discussions Turkey Hands
Island, The Outsiders
Skills practiced:
Reading fluency, reading comprehension, discussion
Turkey Hands
Skills practices: speaking
Bonus: Learn a bit about American culture
Discussions
NYT & BBC articles, adapted for vocabulary
Skills practiced: reading, writing, speaking
Writing Workshop
Fiction writing based on model texts
Skills practiced: reading, speaking, writing