Session 1 - Overview
Session 2 - Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English Sheltered Instruction Part 2
Participants in this session will address why we shelter instruction and look at specific strategies for sheltering instruction for ELLs. These are the strategies they will be using to address the academic instructional needs of their students who are learning English while learning in English.
Session 3 - Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English: Sheltered Instruction
Participants in this session will experience and understand the challenges of learning in a language you don't speak well. Participants will observe strategies of sheltered instruction, an essential component of content instruction for English learners. Teachers will address the relationship of content and comprehensibility and the role of student interaction while learning content in English.
Session 4 - English Language Development
The elements of an effective ELD program will be the focus of this session. Participants will reflect on current ELD practices with the objective of developing a program which builds on student's abilities while facilitating a challenging curriculum as well as facilitating an appropriate pace for language acquisition.
Session 5 - Strategic Teaching: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing and Thinking Activities
As learning language is listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking, participants in this session will examine practical activities that promote each of the five domains of language. Participants will focus on incorporating teaching strategies to maximize student language acquisition and learning.
Session 6 - Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
This session give the participants an opportunity to examine Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS - language and functions that involve communication in everyday social contexts) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP- language of academic study that also involves a systematic thought process). Participants will examine and develop specific strategies to facilitate social and academic language acquisition.
Session 7 - Cooperative Learning and Language Acquisition
Participants in this session will learn how to provide authentic academic language opportunities for English learners that foster a noncompetitive environment in which enhanced opportunities to access content are provided.
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