Course
Teaching English Language Learners
Time limit: 30 days
1.5 credits
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Full course description
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
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