Best Practices for Teaching ELs: Foundations Level Series

Presenters: Tere Masiarchin and Robin Rivas

Description:  Need valuable, ready to use strategies for teaching your English Learners (ELs)? Struggling to understand how to meet the cultural and linguistic needs of your ELs? The Best Practices for Teaching English Learners workshop series will combine research with ready-to-use strategies for sheltering your instruction with ELs! Get ready for an amazing 3 days of engaging strategies you can immediately use with your English Learners!

Day 1: Building the Foundation with SIOP

Day 2: Digging Deeper with SIOP

Day 3: Implementing Best Practices

The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model is a research-based instructional model that has proven effective in addressing the academic needs of English learners. The SIOP Model consists of eight interrelated components: Lesson Preparation Building Background Comprehensible Input Strategies Interaction Practice/Application Lesson Delivery Review & Assessment During this guided demonstration workshop we will combine research with ready to use strategies for sheltering your instruction with English learners!

Audience: Foundation level workshop for K-12 staff working with culturally and linguistically diverse students and who want to understand/implement SIOP.

Cost: 

• $60/person CESA 2 Title III Consortium
• $60/person CESA 2 Consortium Buy-in
• $60/person CESA 2 Immigrant Grant
• $450/person all other districts

Includes lunch and a copy of 99 More Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners with the SIOP Model.

About the Presenters:

Tere Masiarchin provides high quality and relevant professional development, needs assessment, and program support to school districts and teachers with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Tere comes to CESA 2 from CESA 6 where she was the Director of the Language and Culture Center.  Tere had previously spent 11 years in the Clintonville School District as the EL/Bilingual/Title III/21st CCLC Director and has been an adjunct professor at the UW-Green Bay. Tere is a national SIOP trainer and Thinking Maps Trainer.

Robin Rivas has worked as a teacher and administrator for 34 years with culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Robin has also consulted in the areas of program development and professional learning and taught future educators at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

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