Learning Opportunities

Target Audience: K- 12 Administrators, Instructional Leaders, Support Staff and Teachers are encouraged to attend.

Every day, every class counts in the quest to acquire language proficiency: all teachers are teachers of EAL learners. Teachers need a variety of strategies to support EAL learners at different proficiency levels (beginning to advanced) in inclusive learning environments. In this session participants will learn how to:

• use information gleaned through assessing EAL learners’ proficiency levels on the benchmarks to inform instruction
• identify vocabulary and language structures related to the curricular content they are teaching (core, fine arts, PE/Wellness, and complimentary)
• plan for explicit teaching language within their instructional cycle (listening, speaking, reading, and writing)
• select from a variety of high impact vocabulary instruction strategies to explicitly teach language in context
• use sentence starters, sentence frames, and mentor texts to support spoken and written production of language in context