The Language of YouTube: Leveraging Students’ Interests & Promoting Language Development Opportunities
WebinarRegister Now Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Presenter: Carly Spina ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503013 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
Flujo and Flow: Writing the Translanguaging Corriente
WebinarRegister Now Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503006 Flujo and Flow: Writing the Translanguaging Corriente “We use the metaphor of the translanguaging corriente to refer to the current or flow of students’ dynamic bilingualism that runs through our classrooms and schools. Bilingual students make use of the translanguaging corriente, either overtly or covertly, to learn content and language in school and to make sense of their complex worlds and identities.” With this metaphor from Ibarra-Johnson, Garcia, Seltzer (The Translanguaging Classroom, 2017) in mind, we will focus in on how [...]
Spanish Literacy Strand: Pairing Whole Group and Small Group Literacy Instruction
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Presenter: Rachell Anderson Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503027 Spanish Literacy Strand: Pairing Whole Group and Small Group Literacy Instruction Looking for more sessions geared towards Spanish literacy? Join me for a session focused on connecting two important components of literacy instruction: whole group and small group. In this webinar we will examine the features of whole group and small group literacy. We will explore how to lower the affective filter for bilingual students and create opportunities for making connections across literacy environments. We will consider ways to compliment [...]
Spanish Literacy Strand: Pairing Whole Group and Small Group Literacy Instruction
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Presenter: Rachell Anderson Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503027 Spanish Literacy Strand: Pairing Whole Group and Small Group Literacy Instruction Looking for more sessions geared towards Spanish literacy? Join me for a session focused on connecting two important components of literacy instruction: whole group and small group. In this webinar we will examine the features of whole group and small group literacy. We will explore how to lower the affective filter for bilingual students and create opportunities for making connections across literacy environments. We will consider ways to compliment [...]
Collaborating to support Bilingual learners with Special Educational needs
WebinarRegister Now Date: Thursday, October 27, 2022 Presenter: Cristina Sanchez-Lopez & Theresa Young ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503078 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.
Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
WebinarRegister Now Date: Sunday, October 30, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503007 Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice Are you a teacher who enjoys writing? Are you a writing teacher who wants to explore your own writing process? 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? Join us for one, some, or all of the Free Write [...]
Welcoming and Teaching Newcomers
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 Presenter: Maggie Essig ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503015 Welcoming and Teaching Newcomers Learn how to build relationships with newcomer students and their families. Visualize welcoming school and classroom environments for newcomer students. Explore instructional strategies that will support newcomer students in the classroom. TARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
Supportive Space: Workshopping Your Free Writing
Webinar & Asynchronous Learning ActivitiesRegister Now Date: Sunday, November 6, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 3 hours Event ID: 235503036 Supportive Space: Workshopping Your Free Writing Have you participated in one, some, or all of the Free Write sessions so far? Do you want some protected time and space to continue your writing? Are you interested in contributing to an IRC collection of teacher writing? This session is a virtual space for you to meet up with the Free Write series facilitator, Olivia Mulcahy, and other “free writing” teachers to: Continue your piece of writing quietly, but with supportive peers at [...]
Pequeños estudiantes, grandes necesidades: Estudiantes que reciben servicios de ingles y education especial en prekinder
WebinarRegister Now Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Presenter: Adelicia Brienzo ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503050 Pequeños estudiantes, grandes necesidades: Estudiantes que reciben servicios de ingles y education especial en prekinder En esta sesión, los participantes: Explorarán herramientas para establecer un entorno de infancia temprana para estudiantes multilingües recibiendo services de educacion especial. Compartarán experiencias y estrategias para apoyar a los estudiantes multilingües recibiendo services de educacion especial en prekinder. Revisarán los conceptos erróneos comunes sobre los estudiantes multilingües con PEIs. PÚBLICO OBJETIVO: Maestros, paraprofesionales, entrenadores de instrucción y terapeutas que apoyan a los estudiantes de inglés [...]
Spanish Literacy Strand: Building Background Bilingually
WebinarRegister Now Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022 Presenter: Rachell Anderson Plote ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503025 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 [...]
