This course is for TAs.
After analyzing lessons to determine the best embedded practices that support diverse English language learners, participants will divide by grade bands to learn the best practices embedded within them. Looking at and analyzing lesson samples will teach them how to identify specific best practices in action, and what makes them best as a strategy and an action, providing the foundations for differentiation and close reading strategies. Participants will identify best practices pertinent to the grade and discipline they teach, and work them into assignments that scaffold into a final project.
Course Objectives:
- Glean and apply new best practices organizers and visual aids to assist teachers in supporting students.
- Apply the cycle of practice and reflection of best practice strategies to use as on-going support for students who struggle.
- Align best practices with pertinent lesson components.
Instructional decision-making hinges on variables that can change by the minute, the hour, and the student. The many forms that data take can inform rich instruction. It’s all about driving the right data to the right instructional strategy. This course will focus on deep data digs, gaps analysis, and meeting the needs of second language learners.
Course Outcomes:
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Glean and analyze valuable information about student performance from data, focusing on ENL students.
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Look at and analyze multiple data sets to plan instructional strategy with. Data will include formative and summative sources focused on drawing accurate information about the language performance of ENL students.
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Use data to plan instruction for ENL students with.
The role and relevance of diagnostic assessments and their importance as scaffolding tools are discussed in this e-course, along with their diagnostic, prescriptive implications. Identification of students’ strengths and weaknesses as they inform focused instructional strategy for improved teaching is the higher goal in this engaging workshop.
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Develop working knowledge about diagnostic assessments.
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Understand the role and relevance of prior knowledge and scaffolding in the diagnostic assessment process.
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Use diagnostic tools to inform instructional strategy for improved student performance.
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Understand how diagnostic assessments work into a differentiated curriculum.
Close Reading Strategies for ELLs: What are they, and how do we teach them? Grades 3-8 - No. ELL-177
While many students will develop their own methods to read complicated text, answer high-level questions and respond with written products, many ELLs will struggle with reading complex text and the close reading strategies that support it. We now know there are numerous approaches to teach close reading with, all of them working in numerous ways to parcel through multiple layers of text complexity, even for ELLs. From chunking to note taking with purpose, to using visuals and other multi-sensory approaches, participants will gain a repertoire of strategies with which to teach close reading successfully to all students, including ELLs.
Course Outcomes:
- Understand what it means to “close read” with strategy for ELLs.
- Understand and gain insight into the close reading requirements of the Common Core State Standards.
- Apply new strategies to the teaching of close reading to English language learners.