Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

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3 P or A+ Credits | 45 Hours

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  • ELL
  • Instructional Strategies
  • Language Acquisition
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Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners K-12 teachers professional development course

This course focuses on effective strategies for English language instruction. Whether you are considering a career move to ELL instruction or seeking strategies to support ELL student’s language skills within your classroom, you will find many valuable frameworks and practical advice. ASPDP teachers will go beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to explore and implement innovative ways of teaching vocabulary and grammar, listening and speaking, reading, and writing, and designing fair and accurate assessments. Learn more about ELL students and their needs and how to choose the most appropriate materials for the classroom. Explore how teachers can choose the principles that exactly fit their teaching situation. Participants will rethink the traditional native vs. non-native distinction, see why teaching English is so different from teaching other subjects, and explore innovative approaches like Communicative Language.

Objectives

  • Learn how to participate in a brave learning space
  • Describe the English Language learning continuum across the world
  • Analyze experiences of multicultural ELLs as expressed in their own voices
  • Describe the CR-SE Framework 
  • Plan affirming classroom environments for diverse ELLs
  • Compare various types of language learning programs
  • Explain the difference between ELL, ESL, and EFL
  • Analyze the effects of age on language acquisition
  • Describe research-based programming for English Language Learners
  • Describe the traditional methods of grammar-translation, direct, and audio-lingual language instruction.
  • Analyze the change to humanistic methods including The Silent Method, TPR, TPR-S, and Community Language Learning
  • Determine the methods of language instruction that will benefit ELLs in your classroom.
  • Analyze how Communicative Language Teaching supports the language and academic goals of ELLs.
  • Analyze the importance of academic vocabulary for ELLs
  • Evaluate best practices in vocabulary instruction for ELLs
  • Help students develop word learning strategies
  • Understand the specific aspects of English grammar that are difficult  for most ELLs
  • Evaluate the importance of grammar patterns to language acquisition
  • Analyze instructional strategies that support ELLs in listening, speaking, and pronunciation
  • Analyze instructional strategies to support ELLs in reading and writing 
  • Revise and plan lessons that incorporate teaching practices specifically designed to support ELLs.
  • Consider barriers caused by bias, incorrect assumptions, or improper pedagogy for English language learners
  • Analyze how different types of testing impact ELLs
  • Compare the purpose of various assessments
  • Determine how language barriers can cause improper placements
  • Use effective authentic assessment practices
  • Evaluate effective accommodation strategies

Enrollment:

How to Register and Enroll

To complete enrollment you must register and pay for each course on both the CE Credits Online website and the ASPDP site.

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  • Follow the enrollment and payment prompts. If you have a gift card or discount code, you will enter it at the end of the enrollment process.
  • Upon purchase, you will receive an email receipt and be able to login to your eClassroom
  • Important: Course participants must be sure to register with ASPDP for each CE Credits Online course on the NYC DOE ASPDP website. Our courses are in the ASPDP course catalog using the Education Partner drop-down menu by selecting CE Credits Online. At that time, you will pay a registration fee to NYC DOE ASPDP. The fee is $125 for a 3-credit course or $45 for a 1-credit course.
  • You may begin your course on the first day of the semester or upon enrollment (if the semester is already in progress).
  • Please Read the ASPDP FAQs for more information. Courses must be completed by the end of each semester to receive credit. You can contact us at support@cecreditsonline.org with any questions.

Credits

“P” Credit, A+ Credit and CTLE hour Requirements

Courses are available for “P” credits and A+ Credits for NYC Salary Differentials and/or CTLE hours.

Credits Earned: 1 or 3 “P” Credits or A+ Credits and/or 15 or 45 CTLE Hours.

You can take up to 12 Credits per provider each semester.

You must earn your 30 credits above your master’s degree to qualify for a salary differential. Your NYCDOE date of hire determines how many of these credits can be fulfilled by A+ credit, and/or other credits (i.e., P credit, graduate courses taken through a college or university, CLEP tests, and a 2nd Master’s degree): 

  • Fully appointed teacher hired on or after September 1, 2019 must obtain a minimum of 18 A+ credits in order to earn their salary differential unless they have already attained an additional Doctorate, or an additional Master’s in an approved related area as determined by the Joint Accreditation Committee (JAC). 
  • Fully appointed teacher hired on or after September 1, 2017 but before September 1, 2019 must obtain a minimum of 6 A+ credits towards their differential unless they already earned their salary differential before September 1, 2019. 
  • Fully appointed teachers hired before September 1, 2017 are not required to use A+ credits to obtain their salary differential. If they choose to submit A+ credits towards their salary differential, they must obtain a minimum of 6 A+ credits. 

All ASPDP courses can count toward A+ or P credit. You must register with ASPDP by the registration deadline to earn credit toward your +30. You will not be eligible for credit toward your salary differential if you do not register with ASPDP by the deadline.