ESOL Endorsement

Category I

Aligned to: Danielson Domain 2, Marzano Domain 4. Organizing and maintaining multi-cultural classroom environments are the high strategies, while facilitating collaboration, respect and rapport among students. Active participation will further learning about students’ while aiding in the development of assignments and activities that are the outgrowth of high expectations for all students, with a focus on ELLs. Classroom management and effective language strategies will further group work, student engagement, and peaceful transitions between and among activities through culturally relevant practices and sensitivity training. Participants will use, share, research, plan and apply multiple methods of effective classroom design as they align to curriculum and ELL instructional needs. Looking at and analyzing exemplars will teach participants how to identify specific best practices in action, and what makes them best as a strategy, to include applied linguistics, accessing materials for applied linguistics, evaluating and analyzing materials and resources, technologies, and embedding effective practices in projects. Looking at the actions behind them will be catalysts to building a foundation with which to differentiate. After a broad introduction to multiple resources and the research behind their success, participants will research and identify the practices most pertinent to the grade and discipline they teach, and then work them into assignments that scaffold into a final project. Gaining knowledge and awareness of multiple cultures, cultural sensitivity, and language bias participants will develop the working knowledge to operate with awareness and sensitivity through best ELL practices grounded in research.

Course Outcomes:

• Analyze lesson components to identify embedded best practices that support the diverse language needs of their ELL students.
• Glean and apply new best practices to work them into unit and lesson plans presently being taught.
• Practice and reflect upon best practice strategies taught, giving and receiving peer feedback in discussion forums.
• Align best practices with pertinent lesson components and Common Core Standards as they apply specifically to their ELLs.
• Align management strategy with content goals based on industry best practices for inclusive grade-level settings focused on ELL growth.
• Take an active role in learning about their students in order to establish a successful multi-cultural classroom environment.
• Develop working knowledge of behavior management strategies and organization of physical space that contributes to an effective classroom environment.
• Study and practice with successful attributes of student peer review that leads to organized and peaceful transitions and student collaboration.
• Take an active role in learning about their students in order to establish a successful multi-cultural classroom environment.
• Understand and design culturally relevant curriculum, with access to culturally relevant resources and materials.
• Apply working knowledge of cultural competence, with an understanding of cultural identity that affects learning, student academic achievement, and overall K-12 pedagogy.
• Understand racism, stereotyping, and cultural discrimination in teaching, learning and assessment of learning.
• Understand the relationships among language, bias, and culture in students from diverse backgrounds and at various levels of English language proficiency.
• Create, scaffold, and differentiate lessons and lesson supports for ELLs.
• Differentiate and scaffold for ELL struggling readers.
• Understand the classroom conditions necessary for 21st century ELL learners to be motivated and engaged.

This course is 60 hours

Competency 3

Category I

Learning environments conducive to ELL growth is best achieved when the right standards-based materials are selected, resourced, and designed. Participants in this e-course will become knowledgeable about accessing research-based resources, while selecting and adapting standards-based curriculum, materials, and digital resources. Effective reading comprehension combined with teacher modeling, guided practice, independent application, chunking and other approaches will be used across grade and content areas as they apply. Under this umbrella, participants will learn to teach reading, writing, listening, and speaking geared specifically for the needs of ELLs, through effective and differentiated strategy that builds student capacity. Visual representation, vocabulary, questioning, note-taking, close reading and summarizing are some of the approaches that participants will use to develop units and lessons with. Field-tested, research-based and as appropriate evidence-based strategies with accompanying print and digital tools for implementation will taught to scaffold and differentiate with. Participants will be introduced to sound and scientific research as it promotes literacy across all content areas to help ELL students build foundational skills across reading, writing, speaking and listening. They’ll learn and work with the scaffolds behind them that aid students in the important transition process across all content areas. Intentional, consistent, and rigorous teaching of reading and writing strategy that improves student achievement will engage the 90/90/90 principled approach. Participants completing this course will take away field-tested implementation tools that include: graphic organizers, semantic maps, thinking aids, checklists, rubrics and more.

Course Outcomes:

• Acquire the skills needed to effectively teach reading comprehension in primary grades for ELLs.
• Apply new strategy that builds student capacity through teacher modeling, guided practice.
• Use balanced literacy components and leverage them for ELLs.
• Use reading, writing, listening and speaking strategies to effectively scaffold ELL language learning.
• Develop the skill and ability to leverage online and off-site resources to teach using balanced literacy strategies and techniques.
• Become familiar with, and further develop, intervention strategies focused on effective reading interventions (and writing as they support reading comprehension) for struggling ELLs.
• Design, differentiate and scaffold materials and curriculum for ELL struggling readers.
• Move scientific theory into classroom literacy strategy across specific content areas for ELL students.
• Design, differentiate and scaffold ELL curriculum focused specifically on, and informed by, student progress along a rigorous strategy continuum.
• Import research-based literacy strategy into lessons for rigorous application and implementation for their ELL students.
• Glean and apply new strategies for rigor in reading and writing across all subject areas for ELLs.
• Use new strategies for motivating successful reading and writing effort.
• Plan and become familiar with multiple online and print resources that lead to reading and writing success.
• Plan and prepare rigorous units and lessons using newly acquired research-based strategies and methods.
• Create student-friendly classroom environments that are language and culturally sensitive, with language sensitive instruction.
• Embed formative assessment that scaffolds for individuals and small groups in response to focused learning targets
• Select and adapt L1 and L2 resources specifically for ELL development.

This course is 60 hours