Workshops & Keynotes

Beth can offer any of these workshops virtually. To customize any of these frequently requested workshop topics

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Building Academic Language

Building Academic Language

  • Practice practical, research-based strategies from Robert Marzano and Isabel Beck’s work on building vocabulary
  • Develop a rationale and tools necessary for choosing which words to teach and how to teach them
  • Focus on the language necessary for different academic language functions (recounting, explaining, arguing, discussing, etc.)

What’s Different About Teaching Reading to English Language Learners

What’s Different about Teaching Reading to ELLs

  • Explore the differences between teaching reading to native English speakers and ELLs
  • Integrate instructional strategies to support ELLs with learning to read
  • Enhance effective reading programs for both native English speakers and ELLs

Differentiation for Multilinguals

Differentiation for Multilinguals

  • Experience strategies for differentiating content instruction for multilingual learners
  • Practice structuring cooperative learning to best support multilingual learners
  • Make connections, provide choices, and integrate technology to empower all students

Engaging Language Learners in Distance Learning

Engaging Language Learners in Distance Learning

  • Experience practical strategies that ensure language learners speak, write, interact, read, and listen in every distance learning session.
  • Increase comprehension of virtual lessons
  • Amplify opportunities for student engagement

Making Content Comprehensible to Multilingual Learners

Making Content Comprehensible to Multilingual Learner

  • Experience strategies for differentiating content instruction for Multilingual Learners
  • Better understand stages of language acquisition
  • Learn how to integrate content and language learning
  • Harness the power of cooperative learning for Multilingual Learners

Engaging Strategies for Multilingual Learners

Engaging Strategies for Multilingual Learners

  • Help students develop all four language domains (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
  • Practice comprehensible input strategies and partner activities
  • Create an action plan for implementing new strategies in the classroom

Scaffolding Complex Text for Multilingual Learners

Scaffolding complex text for Multilingual Learners

  • Develop strategies that help Multilingual Learners access complex text
  • Write supportive text dependent questions
  •  Incorporate cooperative learning strategies during reading

Making Thinking Visible

Making Thinking Visible

  • Experience thinking routines from Harvard Project Zero
  • Develop Multilingual Learners’ oral and written language skills in elementary and secondary lessons
  • Integrate heritage language and other accommodations for beginning language learners

The Language of Math

The Language of Math

  • Increase awareness of the linguistic and cultural challenges English Language Learners face with learning math
  • Analyze video clips and word problems
  • Engage in cooperative learning strategies
  • Enhance language development in math with three basic principles

TPRS and Comprehensible Input for Language Learners

TPRS & Comprehensible Input for Language Learners

  • Experience the dynamic TPRS/CI methods
  •  Practice the basic steps of the methods
  •  Develop language and literacy for ELLs and world language learners
  •  Tailor instruction for elementary, secondary, and adult language learners

Teaching Language through STEAM

Teaching Language through STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math)

  • Experience strategies that support language development in STEAM classes
  • Design collaborative projects, experiments, and activities that build academic language and content
  • Develop appropriate supports so that all students engage equitably

Teaching Language through Humanities

Teaching Language through Humanities

  • Develop strategies for building necessary background knowledge
  • Make abstract concepts more concrete
  • Embed academic language instruction into content lessons
  • Engage learners at all language acquisition levels

Developing Writing across the Curriculum

Developing Writing across the Curriculum

  • Analyze student writing with an asset-based lens
  • Build on students’ strengths
  • Implement strategies that increase complexity and use of academic vocabulary

The Basics of Instructional Coaching

The Basics of Instructional Coaching

  • Implement a successful coaching cycle
  • Practice each phase of the coaching cycle
  • Analyze coaching videos
  • Integrate instructional coaching methodology from Jim Knight, Diane Sweeney, Stephen Barkley, Jane Kise, Robert Marzano, and Elena Aguilar

Developing Listening Skills

Developing Listening Skills

  • Experience strategies that increase listening comprehension for all levels of language learners
  • Implement strategies to boost students’ confidence in listening to proficient speakers
  • Provide students with tools for comprehending language in a variety of contexts

Beth can offer any of these workshops virtually. To customize any of these frequently requested workshop topics

Contact Beth