Collaborating to support Bilingual learners with Special Educational needs
WebinarRegister Now Date: Thursday, February 2, 2022 Presenter: Cristina Sanchez-Lopez & Theresa Young ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503104 Collaborating to support Bilingual learners with Special Educational needs In this interactive session, bilingual/dual language/ ESL educators and special educators collaborate to: Describe and understand unique strengths and characteristics of bilingual learners with special educational needs Review classroom based research on instruction and intervention to support these learners Explore resources to support students’ multilingualism TARGET AUDIENCE: Educators and practitioners who support bilingual learners with special educational needs.
Weekend Language Detectives: If This, Then That! Planning Responsive Mini-Lessons K-8
WebinarRegister Now Date: Sunday, February 5, 2023 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503085 Weekend Language Detectives: If This, Then That! Planning Responsive Mini-Lessons K-8 Learn how to analyze student writing through a language lens on word, sentence, and discourse development Explore writing mini-lesson moves you can consider to move authors forward Leave the session with ready-to-use templates, record-keeping pages, and lesson ideas that will help you think about your writers in relation to the WIDA standards TARGET AUDIENCE: K-8 General Educators, Content Area Specialists, Language Support Teachers and Everyone Else
Spanish Literacy Strand: Building Background Bilingually
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Presenter: Rachell Anderson Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503053 Spanish Literacy Strand: Building Background Bilingually Join me for another session geared towards Spanish literacy! In this webinar we will take a look at how to activate prior knowledge of text and increase student understanding by building background bilingually. We will explore how to support students in both Spanish and English literacy through bilingual pre-reading activities. We will examine ways to create a conceptual preview that allows for all students to have entry points into a text. TARGET AUDIENCE: K-5 [...]
The Language of YouTube: Leveraging Students’ Interests & Promoting Language Development Opportunities
WebinarRegister Now Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 Presenter: Carly Spina ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503072 The Language of YouTube: Leveraging Students’ Interests & Promoting Language Development Opportunities In this session, educators and leaders will: Define and explore the terms engagement and relevance and how they relate to what students currently consume online. Analyze WIDA’s modes of communication for a variety of purposes and audiences. Explore tools & resources to promote learning experiences that leverage student interests. TARGET AUDIENCE: Educators and instructional coaches who support multilingual learners
Balancing Language and Content Objectives in the Upper Grades
WebinarRegister Now Date: Saturday, February 11, 2023 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503092 Balancing Language and Content Objectives in the Upper Grades Teachers will receive evidence-based strategies and share ideas on how to balance language and content objectives when planning for their multilingual learners. We will examine how to build literacy across content areas and set priorities that align to the needs of individual students. We will examine assessments in core content areas and make modifications aligned to students’ stages of language development as evidenced in their writing and oral language development. We will [...]
Unpacking and Utilizing the Spanish Language Arts Standards
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 Presenter: Rachell Anderson Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503054 Unpacking and Utilizing the Spanish Language Arts Standards In this webinar we will dive deeper into the newly adopted learning standards for Spanish Language Arts for Illinois educators by “unpacking” and exploring what students need to know and do within Spanish literacy instruction. We will analyze the SLA standards by breaking them down into the essential understandings and skills. We will consider how to plan for instruction by aligning the SLA standards with teachers’ repertoire. TARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Teachers of [...]
Multilingual Literacy Strand: Nothing Small About It! Supporting Multilingual Learners in Guided Reading
WebinarRegister Now Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503086 Multilingual Literacy Strand: Nothing Small About It! Supporting Multilingual Learners in Guided Reading Come build a “guided reading ready” kit to support your multilingual learners and everyone else Consider ways to embed language objectives into your guided reading lessons for students at a variety of language development levels …. And what should the rest of the class be doing?! Learn how to balance the whole operation by simplifying the independent tasks and organizing the routines in a visual way that all [...]
Sense y sentido: Making Meaning In-between Languages and Cultures
WebinarRegister Now Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503040 Sense y sentido: Making Meaning In-between Languages and Cultures Learning In-between Languages And Cultures (LILAC) is a schema that helps us plan instruction that creates opportunities for students to leverage bilingual ways of knowing and meaning making. Any teacher in any classroom can use LILAC as a guide to enhance teaching and learning for bilingual students and build an enriching multilingual ecology for the whole learning community. Participants in this workshop will: Explore the concept of LILAC as a tool to [...]
Developing and Implementing a Multilingual Learner Intake Plan
WebinarRegister Now Date: Saturday, February 18, 2023 Presenter: Shadia Salem ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503097 Developing and Implementing a Multilingual Learner Intake Plan Newcomers and their families need myriad forms of support from multiple sources. This workshop is designed to support participants in developing and implementing an English Learner/Multilingual Learner Intake Plan. The English Learning Intake Plan recognizes these needs and develops strategies to meet them so that all stakeholders help newcomers build the necessary foundation to thrive both socially and emotionally and to achieve academic success. Specifically, participants will learn steps in transitioning newcomer students [...]
Universe y universo: Exploring Where the Worlds of Translanguaging and Universal Design for Learning Meet
WebinarRegister Now Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503039 Universe y universo: Exploring Where the Worlds of Translanguaging and Universal Design for Learning Meet Together we will: Explore the fundamentals of both Translanguaging as a pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Examine how the intersection of these approaches can amplify and deepen learning opportunities for bilingual students and everyone in your classroom Brainstorm ways to try out UDL and translanguaging inspired practices in your own teaching context TARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 educators
