 Beth will dialog with you to create a workshop that best meets your group's or district’s individual needs. Please contact her with your interests. Listed below are comments from a recent workshop, sample workshop titles and summaries. Feel free to customize these courses to your needs.
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"Lots of useful material. I can't wait to try out some new strategies in class."
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"Very active! Classroom teachers need this so they know how it feels to be an ELL!"
TPRStorytelling (TPRS) for English Language Learners
TPRStorytelling (TPRS) for Foreign Language Learners
Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms
Enriching Content for Secondary ESOL Students
What’s Different About Teaching Reading to English Language Learners
Building Academic Vocabulary
Reading at Home with Your Child: A Workshop for Parents (in English and/or Spanish)
Training for Trainers: Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms
Training for Trainers: Enriching Content Classes for Second ESOL Students
1 to 3 days
Course Description:
This interactive session is intended for all elementary, secondary and adult teachers who have English Language Learners in their grade level classrooms. This practical workshop provides effective ways of adapting Blaine Ray’s Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS) method for all content areas in order to accelerate the academic achievement of ELLs and enable them to participate fully in the mainstream curriculum.
Course Objectives: (participants will)
•Participate in a TPRS demonstration in German
•Apply brain research and second language acquisition to the TPRS method
•Practice with the 3 basic steps of the TPRS method
•Develop classroom ready lessons in content areas using TPRS
•Create alternative assessments for English Language Learners
•Discuss practical strategies for implementation of the method
•View video clips of TPRS implemented in a variety of ESL classrooms
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1 to 3 days
Course Description:
This interactive session is intended for all elementary and secondary foreign language teachers. The hands-on workshop provides effective ways of implementing Blaine Ray’s TPRStorytelling method in any foreign language classroom to enhance students’ fluency and language acquisition.
Course Objectives: (participants will)
•Participate in a demonstration lesson in a new language
•Learn the second language acquisition theory and research supporting TPRS
•Practice the 3 basic steps of TPRS
•Develop classroom ready lessons using teacher materials
•Create alternative assessments for monitoring acquisition
•Prepare homework assignments that provide comprehensible input
•Learn how to implement a strong reading program in the foreign language classroom
•Participate several comprehensible input activities and games
•View video clips of TPRS in other classrooms
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1 day to 6 days
Course Description:
This training is designed for elementary teachers who have English Language Learners in their classrooms, as well as for ESOL teachers in elementary schools. This interactive session meets many objectives depending on the number of days.
Course Objectives:
•Learn to apply three basic principles to enhance English language learning
•Develop instructional strategies to increase content knowledge and language proficiency for ELLs
•Develop lessons that focus on building content knowledge and language proficiency for ELLs
•Identify appropriate instructional strategies for ELLs at different language levels
•Develop instructional strategies to address literacy skills for ELLs at different language proficiency levels
•Identify elements of culture and their effects on instruction and assessment
•Identify areas of parent involvement and ways to increase the meaningful participation of all families in their children's education
•Identify appropriate assessment practices for ELLs in content classes
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1 day to 7 days
Course Description:
This training is designed for secondary teachers who have English Language Learners in their classrooms, as well as for ESOL teachers in secondary schools. This comprehensive and interactive session models a variety of strategies depending on the number of days of the training the course objectives follow.
Course Objectives:
•Learn to apply three basic principles to enhance English language learning
•Develop instructional strategies to increase content knowledge and language proficiency for ELLs
•Develop lessons that focus on building content knowledge and language proficiency for ELLs
•Identify appropriate instructional strategies for ELLs at different language levels
•Develop instructional strategies to address literacy skills for ELLs at different language proficiency levels
•Identify elements of culture and their effects on instruction and assessment
•Identify areas of parent involvement and ways to increase the meaningful participation of all families in their children's education
•Identify appropriate assessment practices for ELLs in content classes
2 hours to 1 day
Effective literacy instruction for English language learners (ELLs) requires more than knowledge of reading pedagogy designed for English speaking students. It requires knowledge of second language acquisition and the differences ELLs bring to the process of learning to read. It requires an integration of effective reading practices with principles of linguistics and ESL instruction.
This professional development session connects research-based reading instruction and second language acquisition theory and practice. Through an interactive format, teachers learn the differences between teaching reading to native English speakers and ELLs. Using a practical, hands on approach, teachers then explore reading instruction strategies, focusing on areas of need particular to ELLs.
The workshop demonstrates how ESL-adapted instructional strategies enhance effective reading programs for both native English speakers and ELLs. Instructional strategies are developed around three basic principles to enhance English language development for all students: increase comprehensibility, increase interaction, and increase thinking and study skills. The strategies are also built around five areas of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. The activities used to illustrate best practices are classroom tested and research based.
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1 to 2 days
This training is designed for K-12 teachers who work with English language learners, students from poverty, and all students who need to develop academic vocabulary. In this training, participants will experience and practice strategies from Robert Marzano and Isabel Beck's work on building vocabulary. Participants will leave with rationale and tools necessary for choosing which words to teach and how to teach them.
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2 to 6 hours
This session is designed to make parents feel more comfortable reading to their children at home and provide additional activities and learning strategies for those parents who already read regularly to their children. Parent participants will practice basic skills about reading to children and add new activities to their repertoire. It also respectfully addresses situations such as for parents who don’t speak English and parents who don’t know how to read, providing meaningful suggestions for how those parents can interact with their children and books. Video clips clearly demonstrate each technique and provide practical tips for making reading at home a pleasurable family activity.
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2 to 3 days
This session prepares future trainers to use a set of prepared professional development materials including trainer’s notes, transparency masters, a video, and handouts for participants. This professional development program prepares teachers who work with limited English proficient students to use strategies that develop students’ social and academic English and support their transition to US culture and schools. This professional development program is appropriate for teachers in a variety of program models: mainstream classrooms, self-contained ESOL classrooms, bilingual programs, and others. The complete program requires 45 class hours, but is easily adapted to local needs and time frames. The contents include chapters on reading first and second language acquisition, culture, writing, math and other content areas, assessment, parent involvement and additional resources. This highly interactive program uses a variety of learning methods where participants apply what they are learning to their own curriculums and materials.
Participants must purchase their own materials for this session. The materials are available from Delta Systems, Inc. online at www.delta-systems.com or by telephone at 800-323-8270:
Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms; manual, study guide & video
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2 to 3 days
This session prepares future trainers to use a set of prepared professional development materials including trainer’s notes, transparency masters, a video, and handouts for participants. These comprehensive, in-service training materials are designed for middle and high school content teachers (teachers of math, science, social studies, and language arts) whose mainstream classes include ESOL students. The training shows teacher show to reach both content and related academic language to all students, including English language learners using techniques such as graphic organizers, scaffolded lessons, cooperative learning, alternative assessment, and multicultural activities.
Participants must purchase their own materials for this session. The materials are available from Delta Systems, Inc. online at www.delta-systems.com or by telephone at 800-323-8270:
Enriching Content Classes for Secondary ESOL Students; manual, study guide & video
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