QUOTE: Well-meaning teachers with inadequate training can sabotage their own efforts to create positive learning environments through hypercriticism of errors; not seeing native language usage as an appropriate scaffold; ignoring language errors. 

Meltzer, J., & Hamann, E. (2005). Meeting the literacy development needs of adolescent English language learners through content area learning; Providence: The Education Alliance

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

When you complete this course you will be able to:

• Recognize the needs of ELL students in your school
• Identify ways to support the needs of your ELLs and their families
• Understand the needs of the ELL population they are working with
• Assemble and obtain human and technical resources to help with parent nights, conferences, and teacher communication
• Analyze ways schools can be welcoming and informative to parents and students with other languages
• Develop strategies to support your ELL students
• Apply the strategies developed to your lessons
• Identify appropriate assessment tools for your ELLs