Cooperative Workshops, continued...
Bilingual ESL Workshops, Page 1
Language Proficiency Standards in the Content Areas: Bilingual, ESL and General Ed. Teacher (Texas Observational Protocol) (K-12)
An exploration of the depths of Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and strategies that must be taught explicitly to the ELL student to enhance transference to Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency Skills (CALPS); Participants will gain knowledge on how to use the Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs) in Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing as a tool to drive instruction and assess students’ progress through the use of portfolios.
- Overview on language acquisition in theory and practice
- Language levels
- Effective researched-based practices in sheltered instruction in math, science and social studies
- Strategies that promote adequate yearly progress for every student Techniques on how to plan and develop student portfolios
L.O.T.E. (Languages Other Than English) Secondary (9-12)
Strategies and Resources for Foreign Language Levels I – II
Participants will learn strategies for helping students become proficient in foreign language and will be provided with resources for implementation of strategies to create strong foreign language programs.
- Successful strategies to develop proficiency in all components of language development
- Scenarios to engage students’ learning
- Resources will be provided to enhance district’s programs
L.O.T.E. (Languages Other Than English) Secondary (9-12)
Strategies and Resources for Foreign Language Levels III - V
Participants will learn strategies for helping students become proficient in foreign language and will be provided with resources for implementation of strategies to create strong foreign language programs.
- Successful strategies to develop proficiency in all components of language development
- Scenarios to engage students’ learning
- Resources will be provided to enhance district’s programs
Making Connections between Writing & Reading: The Many Faces of Shared Reading and Interactive Writing (2-12)
Participants will learn strategies that extend the traditional shared reading and interactive writing activities into connections between reading and writing.
- Building fluency in writing through interactive writing
- Scaffolding strategies that foster independent readers and writers
Math Instruction and the ELL (K-12)
Participants will learn how to apply language instruction within the math context. The teacher will be involved in interactive activities that will assist the ELL in problem solving and reading comprehension of word problems.
- Language levels
- Hands on activities and graphic organizers to build math literacy
- Math non-linguistic issues
Path to Scholarships TM - Secondary Student Workshop (7-12)
Path to Scholarships is an academic, motivational blueprint for successful dropout prevention. It empowers all students to pursue post-secondary education thus reducing the dropout rate and increasing the graduation rate motivating all students to do above average things. This workshop will walk students through the scholarship search and application process step by step.
- District and campus level statutory requirements
- Strategies for involving parents in leadership and planning
- Evaluation and documentation tools
Reading Strategies for the Adolescent Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Student across the Content Areas (7-12)
Practical, effective reading strategies that promote academic language, literacy, academic achievement and cross-cultural skills will be addressed.
- Making predictions
- Interacting with reading
- Inferencing and application questioning techniques
- Tone and voice
- Summarization
Science and the ELL (K-12)
This session presents methods and strategies educators can use to improve knowledge, skills and concepts for the ELL. Participants will learn
- Language levels
- Graphic organizers to develop science literacy
- Hands on activities to build background for science concepts
Sheltered Instruction in the Core Areas (SIOP One Day Overview) (7-12)
This overview session is to engage teachers in how to assist ELLs in developing academic language and content concepts in the core areas. This overview consists of the 8 components of the SIOP Model.
- Lesson Preparation o Building Background/Comprehensible Input
- Strategies/Practice-Application/Interaction
- Review and Assessment
Sheltered Instruction in the Core Areas (SIOP Model) (7-12)
This 2 day session will provide participants with sheltered instruction strategies that extend the time students have for getting language support services. In addition, participants will gain the knowledge and skills needed to effectively plan, develop and delivers lessons that integrate language and content objectives.
SIOP II in Action (7-12)
This session will provide implementation strategies from the eight components as related to math, science and social studies. Participants will be actively engaged in developing SIOP lessons that incorporate the social, affective and cognitive skills for the ELL.
- Implement language objectives
- Full lessons provided
Team -Teach Approach: Integrating TEKS and Spiraling Skills from the General Ed. Classroom to the ESL Classroom (K-6)
Participants will understand why collaboration among general education, special education and ESL teacher is crucial for the development of academic language proficiency in ELLs. Various techniques and approaches to accomplishing this effectively will be addressed.
- Overview of language acquisition in theory and practice
- Ways on how to identify students’ language levels
- Ways to increase integration and build connections
- Effective practices to increase academic language proficiency
Texas Observation Protocol (1 day)
This one day training will train district-selected TOP raters responsible for rating LEP students in all eligible domains: reading (K-2 only), listening, speaking, and writing.