#907 Strategies for Success with English Language Learners
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Last Date to Register: 10/4/2010 12:01 AM
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What are the best ways to increase the English language proficiency and academic achievement of English language learners? What scaffolding strategies should be used in instruction to support student learning? This one day session will answer these and other provocative questions. Learn how national subject-area and English-language standards can be implemented simultaneously in an inclusive classroom. And discover tools to help create a responsive learning environment for English language learners in mainstream classrooms. Join ASCD Faculty member and renowned authority, Virginia Rojas, as she facilitates your professional learning using an interactive approach.
Specific session outcomes include:
the development of a professional knowledge base on linguistic issues related to
teaching English language learners in K-12 settings;
exploring the use of literacy strategies that include graphic organizers, and vocabulary strategies;
exploring the use of literacy strategies that include K-2 reading and writing strategies, and 3-12 reading and writing strategies;
an understanding of how to utilize standards-based and assessment-driven
reform to build equity into the instructional process; and
how to use different types of scaffolds – including time-honored ESL
strategies, and the instructional frameworks of differentiation, cooperative
learning and co-teaching to support language development and academic
achievement.