When:
January 13, 2025 – February 24, 2025 all-day
2025-01-13T00:00:00-05:00
2025-02-25T00:00:00-05:00
Where:
Virtual
Contact:
How can teachers help English Language Learners (ELLs) thrive in their classrooms? This VLC will offer strategies based on 7 Essential Elements for ELL Support: Physical Space, Scaffolding, Resources, Explicit Language Instruction, Facilitation, Emotional Wellness, and Social Engagement. Participants will learn actionable strategies to implement to help both students and teachers thrive. Strategies will be tailored to each participant’s grade level and subject area.
Syllabus:
- Understanding the “7 Essential Elements for ELL Support”
- Recognizing the role that students’ academic backgrounds have in implementing these elements
- Learning strategies for each of the 7 Elements
- Making assessment work for ELLs
Access to MyQPortal is included for all participants while enrolled in the VLC.
In this course, participants will leverage choice and technology to provide students with the ultimate differentiated learning environment. They will develop differentiated digital activity lists rooted in rigorous instruction that offer multiple ways to learn and apply content. Participants will explore autonomy, purpose, and mastery as motivators in all learning environments. They will design differentiated activity lists to put students in charge of their own learning, creating a structure that allows students to make decisions within a structured framework. Making informed decisions is an essential life skill that teachers can support with intentional classroom practices.
Participants in this course will use Reinventing the Classroom Experience by Dr. Nancy Sulla as a resource. The assigned book must be