{"id":65537,"date":"2018-11-01T07:29:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=65537"},"modified":"2019-07-16T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:20:40","slug":"english-language-learner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/teacher-resources\/teaching-in-michigan-blog\/english-language-learner\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan ELL Students Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English Language Learners (ELL) have increased across the country over the last 10 years going from 3.8 million students in 2000 (8.1% of the population) to 4.8 million students in 2015 according to<a href=\"https:\/\/learningenglish.voanews.com\/a\/number-of-english-learners-in-us-schools-keeps-rising\/4635659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> VOA English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While most ELL students speak Spanish in the home, Arabic comes in second\u00a0 &#8211; 2.4% of ELL students speak Arabic at home. Michigan leads the way with 24%\u00a0 ELL students who speak Arabic in the home. Chinese comes in third with 2% of ELL students speaking Chinese at home.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers certified to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) is listed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/mde\/2017-18_Critical_Shortage_Retirees_List_555370_7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critical teacher shortage<\/a> area by the Michigan Department of education. Districts across the state report shortages of ESL trained teachers.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the skills and desire to teach the growing population of ELL students, now is the time to become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/how-it-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michigan Teacher<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Language Learners (ELL) have increased across the country over the last 10 years going from 3.8 million students in 2000 (8.1% of the population) to 4.8 million students in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":65538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[1454,1453,1455,1456,1452],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/media-mi\/FT_18.10.02_ESLStudents_feature.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-13 03:28:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68964,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65537\/revisions\/68964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}