Explicit instruction techniques that are beneficial for ELLs benefit all students

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SNAPSHOT: Many schools want to minimize pull-out instruction for English Language Learners (ELLs) and move toward more inclusive classrooms. Research has shown that when regular classroom teachers use a relatively simple set of highly effective instructional strategies, ELLs develop greater comprehension and become more engaged students.

But, for many overwhelmed teachers the question is "where do I start?"

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In this 90-minute webinar, Rita MacDonald, a trainer and consultant for the 22-state World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium, will provide you with those practical techniques and strategies. The techniques can be used at all grade levels whether teachers are providing content instruction or language instruction. Recent research emphasizies the need for explicit language instruction and academic language instruction for all students, not only ELLs, so the strategies can benefit any student in the classroom.

Educators who are familiar with strategies for differentiating instruction for ELLs will be better able to collaborate with English as Second Language (ESL) teachers. ESL and gen-ed teachers often lack a shared language and shared pedagogy to guide their collaboration. Webinar handouts and activities will provide participants with tools, strategies and ways of thinking about content instruction that create an effective bridge between ESL and gen-ed teaching, increasing success for both teacher and student.

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

• How to create student profiles and class profiles for instructional planning
• Techniques to identify ELLs' functional levels and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
• Supports and scaffolds to help students function in the ZPD
• Ways to integrate essential instructional strategies for ELLs into the gen-ed classroom
• How to help students and teachers analyze and use language to construct meaning in content lessons
• How to integrate explicit, content-specific language instruction into the gen ed classroom
• Recent research findings about Response to Intervention and ELLs
• Providing explicit instruction in academic English
• How to forge effective teaching partnerships with ESL colleagues.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Rita MacDonald is a grant coordinator for OELA (Office of English Language Acquisition, U.S. Department of Education) National Professional Development grants, and consultant and teacher trainer for the 22-state World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium. WIDA is a non-profit cooperative of states working together to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) for English Language Learners with innovative standards and assessments.

Rita teaches in the Master of Arts Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MA TESOL) program at Saint Michael's College in Vermont. She teaches applied linguistics, works with teachers on how to analyze content for academic English and on how to use WIDA tools and resources. Her public school experience in teaching K-12 ELLs and her college teaching experience provides a solid grounding in the realities and theory of classroom instruction for ELLs.

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