Webinars & Podcasts

In this podcast, Mia Ariela Allen and I talk with Tan Huynh about supporting language learners with limited access to online learning. We also discuss how to implement what has worked well with distance learning into face to face classes in the future.

In this podcast for MyEdExpert, Suzy Pepper Rollins interviews Beth about some basic ELL issues including questions about the stages of language acquisition, the difference between social and academic language, and ways that teachers can support ELLs at different stages in their classrooms.

In this 30-minute session, I demonstrate practical strategies for teaching academic language. Learn why and how to teach essential vocabulary as well as some ideas on which words to teach.

In this 30-minute session, I demonstrate the “See-Think-Wonder” Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard Project Zero.

In this interview with Monica Genta, another educational consultant. I provide two tips on making content lessons more accessible to English Language Learners. 1) Teach the Text Backwards, a strategy for making content comprehensible from the Center for Applied Linguistics 2) Plan a lesson with a focus on language development.

Watch this webinar to find out what academic language is and how to teach it. The hour long webinar is organized around WIDA’s features of academic language.