Prepping for Testing Season: Tips, Tricks, & Ideas
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 Presenter: Carly Spina ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503067 Prepping for Testing Season: Tips, Tricks, & Ideas During this event, all grade level EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: Explore tips & tricks for scheduling, materials, and communication with staff members & families Identify ways to keep students engaged Design an action plan for organization, scheduling, energizing, and more! TARGET AUDIENCE: Educators and leaders who serve multilingual students
Initial Spanish Literacy Methods
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 Presenter: Rachell Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503096 Initial Spanish Literacy Methods Do you teach Spanish literacy in a bilingual or dual language program? Or do you just want to expand your understanding of initial Spanish literacy development? Join me for a look at five instructional methods for teaching reading in Spanish. Deepen your understanding of Spanish literacy skill development in primary aged bilingual learners by examining five methods for initial Spanish literacy Explore similarities and differences between initial literacy instruction in Spanish with initial literacy instruction in English [...]
Targeting Language Support for Higher Proficiency Levels (3, 4, 5)
WebinarRegister Now Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 Presenter: Carly Spina ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503068 Targeting Language Support for Higher Proficiency Levels (3, 4, 5) During this event, all grade level EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: Examine the unique linguistic needs of students of higher language proficiency levels Explore ways to enrich language opportunities across grade levels and content areas Design a tool bank of resources to share with colleagues TARGET AUDIENCE: Educators and leaders who serve multilingual students
ML Teacher Toolbox: Using Sentence Frames and Word Banks to Support All Levels of Development
WebinarRegister Now Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 Presenter: Michele Yanong ECPD Credit Hours: 1 hour Event ID: 245503069 ML Teacher Toolbox: Using Sentence Frames and Word Banks to Support All Levels of Development It is no secret that sentence frames and word banks are useful tools! Engage in a simulation that will help you experience why they work, and when they fail. Then see examples at a variety of grade levels. Examine how to create and structure these tools to strategically advance speaking and writing levels for your students. Leave with ready-to-use frames and word banks for common classroom [...]
Prepping for Testing Season: Tips, Tricks, & Ideas
WebinarRegister Now Date: Thursday, January 11, 2024 Presenter: Carly Spina ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503070 Prepping for Testing Season: Tips, Tricks, & Ideas During this event, all grade level EL/Bilingual/Dual Language educators will: Explore tips & tricks for scheduling, materials, and communication with staff members & families Identify ways to keep students engaged Design an action plan for organization, scheduling, energizing, and more! TARGET AUDIENCE: Educators and leaders who serve multilingual students
Foundational Literacy Skills through Meaningful Connections
WebinarRegister Now Date: Saturday, January 13, 2024 Presenter: Shadia Salem ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503108 Foundational Literacy Skills through Meaningful Connections Join this workshop to discover methods and considerations addressing the unique needs of multilingual learners in the area of literacy. Dive into foundational literacy skills with a focus on cross-language connections and explicit oral language development. This session offers an exploration of effective strategies and guidance for enhancing literacy for multilingual learners. Audience: Primary teachers, instructional leaders, paraprofessionals
Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
WebinarRegister Now Date: Sunday, January 14, 2024 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503071 Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice Are you an educator craving creative space where you can connect, generate, and share ideas with a community of colleagues? Are you hungry for ideas and inspiration to enhance teaching and learning in your culturally and linguistically diverse classroom? Are you interested in exploring how the experience of writing can help you deepen your practice? Whether you already enjoy writing or have a rocky relationship with writing, you are invited [...]
Using Ordinary Technology Tools To Create Extraordinary Opportunities to Develop Oral Language
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 Presenter: Maggie Essig ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503072 Using Ordinary Technology Tools To Create Extraordinary Opportunities to Develop Oral Language Examine the research about using technology with multilingual learners to develop oral language skills. Explore when and where technology tools can be easily incorporated into instruction to develop oral language skills. Walk away with strategies that can be immediately used with students! TARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: Independent Writing & Collaborative Writing
Illinois Resource Center , United StatesRegister Now Date: Thursday January 18, 2024 Presenter: Vanessa Figueroa ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503125 Teaching Approaches to Develop Biliterate Writing: Independent Writing & Collaborative Writing Teachers will examine Independent Writing and Collaborative Writing methods and what is unique in the teaching of literacy-based English Language Development (ELD) and Spanish literacy classroom settings. Teachers will receive suggestions for implementing Independent Writing and Collaborative Writing methods across primary and intermediate grade levels. This workshop content will be beneficial for Dual Language Teachers, ESL/Bilingual Teachers, or General Education Teachers who would like to learn more about how [...]
Furthering Your Free Writing
WebinarRegister Now Date: Sunday, January 21, 2024 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 245503074 Furthering Your Free Writing If you have participated in one, some, or all of the Free Write sessions so far, you are invited to come and continue your writing! Do you have an unfinished piece of writing that you started in a Free Write session? Would you like some protected time to take it further? Bring your writing-in-progress to this virtual space to: Continue your piece of writing quietly, but with other Free Writers at the ready to bounce ideas around [...]
