Create a 10-12 slide digital presentation for special education teachers, gifted teachers, and other members of a multidisciplinary team to lay a foundation for understanding ELL students’ needs and making culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate decisions for intervention, support, special education services, and/or gifted services. Include the following in your presentation:

• Explain the importance of understanding how the individual identity of the ELL student, affected by academic, personal, familial, cultural, and social contexts, including sociopolitical factors, impacts the student’s learning, development, and achievement.
• Provide a rationale, including major concepts, principles, theories, or research, for developing awareness of the role of culture/cultural groups to construct supportive learning environments for ELLs, including those with exceptionalities. 
• Describe three methods that educators can implement to learn about personal characteristics of individual ELLs with exceptionalities (e.g., interests, motivations, strengths, needs) and their families (e.g., language use, literacy practices, circumstances) to develop effective instructional practices.
• Describe three methods that can be implemented to collect information on the ELL student’s academic characteristics, including background knowledge, educational history, and current performance data, to develop effective, individualized instructional and assessment practices for the ELL.
• Provide three recommendations for how to collaborate with ELL families in meeting the needs of ELL students with exceptionalities.

Support your presentation with a minimum of three scholarly resources.   

Submit your deliverable, or a link to your deliverable, and scholarly resources in a single document. Ensure that others can access and view the link prior to submitting. 

Presenter’s notes are required for each content slide. Presentation must include a title slide at the beginning, and a reference slide with documentation of resources at the end. The title slide and reference slide are not included in the total number of slides.

The digital presentation should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately. 

While APA Style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.