Unlocking Potential: Practical Techniques for Engaging ELLs and Migrant Learners
This comprehensive course equips educators with effective strategies to support English Language Learners (ELLs) and migrant students in diverse classroom settings. Participants will explore evidence-based techniques to enhance language acquisition, content comprehension, and overall academic success for these learners.
Key topics include:
Understanding ELLs: Definition, characteristics, and unique challenges SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol)
Model: Implementing effective lesson planning strategies
Best Practices: Research-based approaches for engaging ELLs and migrant learners
Language Instruction: Techniques to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills
Content Instruction: Strategies for making subject matter accessible across disciplines
Multilingual Resources: Utilizing and creating materials that support language diversity
Translanguaging: Incorporating activities that leverage students' full linguistic repertoires
Through interactive Zoom meetings and asynchronous work via Schoology, educators will gain valuable skills to create inclusive, supportive learning environments that unlock the potential of ELLs and migrant learners.
FORMAT: Synchronous online learning with asynchronous work
DATES: Mondays, 2/3/25, 2/24/25, 3/3/25, 3/17/25, 4/7/25
TIME: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
FACILITATORS: Lorena Hurst, Geoff Bizan, Erica Egdemir, Mary Ann Nickloy, GCRTC Teacher Leadership Coaches; Carmen Bernier, Albany City School District
GCRTC CONTACTS: Lorena Hurst, Geoff Bizan, Erica Egdemir, Mary Ann Nickloy, GCRTC Teacher Leadership Coaches
FEE: None. Registration is required.
CTLE HOURS: 15
REGISTRATION: https://tinyurl.com/5xjxpacr