Professional Learning around ELs
ELD by the Minute
How much time do you have? Dive into these learning opportunities based on the time you have today!
5 Minutes:
- Providing English learners—and all students—with examples of how to do learning tasks is particularly useful during distance learning. This short article provides 5 effective modeling strategies.
- An article by former SDOL Principal Wanda Ramirez-Suarez, Quick Tip: 5 Techniques to Support English Learners in Mathematics, was featured in this month’s TESOL Connections Quick Tips! Check it out to learn more about supporting ELs in math!
- 10 Dictation Activities - breath new life into an old staple with dictation activities to help students notice new forms, promote listening skills, and present new language.
- These language games, warmups, Do Nows, and fun activities such as Conversation Questions, Vocab Scatter Sheets, and Dictations are online-friendly and ready to use. Check them our here!
- Culture Quilts & Bags: Are you looking for a way to foster relationships with your students, get to know them despite a virtual learning environment, and build connections among them all? Then this beginning of the year activity is for you! Rubric and How to make this activity virtual video.
- "How to Co-Teach From Your Couch" - In this article, Wendy Murawski and Toby Karten remind us that while co-teaching may be temporarily redefined, we still need to implement the evidence-based practices for successful outcomes. The authors offer four tips to continue with a co-teaching service delivery model.
- Check out this Education Week infographic highlighting 7 Tips for Remote Learning.
- What's Going On in This Picture? Use intriguing NY Times images stripped of their caption as an invitation to discussion and writing. Can be adapted to a variety of content areas.
- Stay up to date on issues and resources related to ELL education at #ELLChat, a Twitter chat for teachers of ELLs.
10 Minutes:
- Check out this great article from SupportEd. The authors developed a new tool to raise awareness about EL engagement during hybrid learning and have outlined 5 priority areas for us to keep in mind.
- this blogpost, Building Better Sentences: Rigorous Syntax for English Learners, Natalia Heckman explains what research says about how students benefit from rigorous syntax instruction and how teachers can help demystify syntax to empower young writers. In addition to breaking down the concept of syntax, she also offers a practical step-by-step approach to teaching syntactic elements or sentence patterns.
- Want to use Classkick to teach language? Watch the video for a handful of ideas to get started. For more information on the Classkick app, go to https://classkick.com/.
- Google Jamboard is a collaborative digital whiteboard available in your Google Drive. Watch this introduction on using Google Jamboard to support English learners.
- Teaching with Technology - Here you can find apps, tools and teaching ideas for using technology in the real or virtual classroom such as a Scrambled Sentence Maker, Story Cards, and What Happens Next?
- Check out these tools for engaging students with language. This video explores creative uses for Google Earth, interactive whiteboard, and Google Maps with Zoom.
- This article from TESOL Connections includes tips for building Speaking & Listening language skills.
- Imagine visiting a refugee camp, experiencing homelessness, or traveling to the locations you read about in books. Learn how Virtual Reality can be used to create immersive learning experiences that increase engagement, encourage risk taking, and create opportunities for language output among students in this article from TESOL Connection.
- In this video, ESL Teacher and Education Week blogger Larry Ferlazzo provides 7 tips for the transition to online learning.
- Watch an example of an online lesson for ELLs at the elementary or secondary level. As you watch, consider the ways each teacher is making the content accessible to English learners.
15+ Minutes:
- Natalia Heckman (@NataliaESL) joins Carol (@MsSalvaC) to offer us tips on engaging ELs with writing. A student may not be excited about constructing and deconstructing sentences, but we can certainly engage them enough to do just that. Natalia shows us how!
- Listen to Boosting Achievement - The ESL Podcast as Carol Salva and Natalia Heckman discuss the power of sentence level writing instruction and the need ELs have to learn the structure of the new language.Explore these resources and tips for teaching English learners online collected from SIOP Meet-Ups 2020.
- 8 Strategies for Building Relationships with ELLs includes ideas for educators who want to build authentic relationships with ELLs this year in virtual and hybrid settings, as well as how they can connect students' experiences to meaningful instruction.
- High-tech, low-tech, or no-tech? While they all have value, Eric and Carmen provide you with 8 low-tech language strategies in this 15 minute video. All of the strategies are doable with beginning language learners.Wondering how to make lessons that are more student-centered with virtual instruction? Want less Teacher Talk and more student engagement? Check out this video of specific ideas for creating student-centered lessons using features of Padlet and Google Forms.
- SIOP Repository - Explore these collected resources and tips for teaching English learners online from SIOP.
- The Writing Revolution is hosting a free, Strategy of Week webinar every Friday! View the recorded sessions on topics that include: Because, But, So, Appositives, Sentence Expansion, and Single Paragraph Outline. Check back each week for the latest offering!
- Did you get your Flipgrid subscription years ago? If you did, you might want to check out this webinar. Flipgrid has added lots of new features such as: prompt translation into 60 languages, an immersive reader feature that reads text to students as individual words are highlighted, and screen recording. Check it out! (40 minutes).
- Supporting Immigrants and Refugees During Remote Learning: Check out this webinar. Laura Gardner, Founder of Immigrant Connections, Social Worker and Consultant, joined Carol Salva and Valentina Gonzalez to discuss some of the most important considerations as we aim to support immigrant and refugee students and their families during this time.
- WIDA's Teaching Multilingual Learners Online page includes guiding principles and resources for supporting ELs through digital learning.
- Explore the ELD Remote Learning Padlet from IU13 for relevant webinars, tech tools, articles, and other resources.
Spotlight Strategies
Are you looking for strategies we posted previously? Check out our page dedicated to our Spotlight Strategies!