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Strategies for Making Content Accessible to ELs

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Strategies for Making Content Accessible to ELs
Are you an ESOL teacher who wants additional strategies to strengthen your work with ELs? Or, are you a content area or classroom teacher who needs strategies and tools to foster ELs’ acquisition of language and content? Or, do you know a colleague whose ELs could benefit from additional strategies? Together, we will explore research-based practices, based on Diane and Sydney’s best-selling book Unlocking English Learners’ Potential: Strategies for Making Content Accessible, for supporting ELs as they learn academic language and content.

Learning Objectives Learning Objectives

In our self-paced course, Strategies for Making Content Accessible to ELs, you will explore research-based practices for supporting ELs as they learn academic language and content.  

Over the three course components, you will have an opportunity to learn about and apply strategies to:

  • Effectively scaffold content instruction for ELs of varying proficiency levels,
  • Incorporate academic conversations into lessons to support ELs’ oral language development and content learning, and
  • Use formative assessments to assess ELs’ language and content learning and plan instruction tailored to meet ELs’ specific academic needs
Course Amenities Course Amenities

This popular SupportEd Collaborative Course includes facilitated Professional Learning Community (PLC)-based discussions and application activities. You will be able to share your expertise with colleagues as well as learn what strategies others are using to effectively support ELs in their schools and districts. 

The six-week guided online course offers you: 

  • Three flexible learning components that you can work on at times that are most convenient for you
  • 12-hour professional development certificate for you upon satisfactory completion of the course
  • Interactive PLC discussions that provide opportunities to apply strategies, share, and develop ideas
  • Video clips of EL strategies in action in the classroom
  • Practical application activities to apply course content to your own contexts
  • Resource and tool sharing
  • Guiding and reflective questions in a note-taking guide
Certificate Hours

Upon course completion, participants will earn a personalized certificate for (12) hours of professional development.
Bonus hours: Participants can earn two additional PD hours by completing optional coursework

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