Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners in the Content Area Classroom

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3 CPE Credits | 45 Hours

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  • ELL
  • Instructional Strategies
  • Language Acquisition
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Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners in the Content Area Classroom K-12 teachers professional development course

Course Description

English Language Learners make up a significant special population in American schools. Content area teachers often look for help balancing subject area instruction while trying to meet the needs of language learners. In this course, K-12 teachers will learn strategies to successfully meet the needs of English Language Learners in all subject areas.

The course begins with overarching strategies that all teachers can use. Teachers will learn how to create a welcoming and culturally affirming classroom environment, analyze common struggles for ELL students, and analyze how academic vocabulary instruction can take place in all classes. Then the course dives deeper, providing ideas specific to all the subject areas. Mathematics, ELA, science, social studies, and the special area teachers will all find presentations that help them support ELLs.

Additionally, teachers will learn about planning lessons with Universal Design and accommodations so that ELLs can fully participate . This course will help understand the needs of ELLs, and also directly implement concrete strategies in content classes.

Selected Objectives

  • Understand the norms of a brave learning space
  • Describe statistics about ELLs in the United States
  • Reflect on the experiences of ELLs
  • Identify foundational principles to serve ELLs in content classrooms (e.g. high expectations, comprehensible input, etc.)
  • Analyze school wide practices that can be put in place to support ELLs.
  • Learn to build on strengths of ELL students
  • Analyze ways to affirm home culture of ELLs
  • Describe ways to build rapport with ELL students and their parents
  • Analyze the CR-SE Framework
  • Describe classroom instructional models that support inclusive practice
  • Establish an ELL friendly classroom
  • Identify common struggles experienced by the ELL student
  • Explain how differing background knowledge can be a barrier in the content classroom
  • Explain the importance of vocabulary to success in the content area
  • Differentiate between tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 vocabulary
  • Analyze how transferable tier 2 academic vocabulary has a high utility for success across content areas.
  • Analyze vocabulary acquisition strategies
  • Develop a vocabulary activity for ELL students
  • Utilize visual aids and non-verbal cues support ELL students
  • Analyze specific challenges faced by ELLs in science and technical subject area classrooms
  • Describe ways to support ELLs in science and the technical subjects
  • Analyze specific challenges faced by ELLs in mathematics classrooms
  • Analyze specific challenges faced by ELLs in the humanities subjects of social studies, ELA, and the arts
  • Describe ways to support ELLs in the humanities

Enrollment is a two-step process:

To Register/Enroll in a Course:

Register:

  • Register with Region 10 ESC by going to Region 10 Education Service Center.
  • Once you have registered, Region 10 will email you a prepaid enrollment code to use to enroll at CE Credits Online.

Enroll:

  • Return to our Region 10 course options and select your course.
  • If you need a certificate of completion only (for Texas CPEs), choose the Course Only option. Or…
  • If you need an official transcript, choose the Course & University Credits option. See our University Partners page for more information about our regionally accredited university partners.
  • Add the course to your cart.
  • Enter the enrollment code provided by Region 10 to validate your enrollment.
  • Click “Check Out” when you are ready to complete your order.
  • You will be asked to log into your account or create a new account.
  • Follow the prompts until you receive a confirmation page. You’ll need to click the Continue to payment button.
  • Upon enrollment, you will receive an email receipt and be able to log in to your course at eClassroom Sign in. You have 180 days (about 6 months) from your enrollment to complete your course.

If you have any questions, check out our FAQs or email support@cecreditsonline.org.

For questions regarding the registration or payment process through Region 10, please contact:

Lori Aden
(972) 348-1510
lori.aden@region10.org

CPE Credit: All courses are approved for CPE credit.

Upon Course Completion:

Obtaining Graduate-Level Professional Development Credits

  • We have partnered with regionally-accredited universities to provide graduate-level professional development credits for our courses.
  • Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion for your records.
  • Select the university (see University Partners tab) from whom you want your credits--the university or universities that are providing credits for a specific course are listed in the drop down in each course description.
  • Email support@cecreditsonline.org to let us know you are completed and which university you have selected for your credits.
  • CE Credits Online will email you instructions on how to pay for the credits ($55/credit).
  • Upon completion of your course, CE Credits Online will forward all the required documentation to the University you selected.
  • The University partner will process your course completion and provide a transcript that includes the name of the course, course number, number of credits, and your grade.
  • You will receive directions on how to receive your transcript in email form, and you can also review the University Partners section of our website for more information.
  • You must check with your district to ensure the credits received will meet your specific requirements. We will not be held responsible if your school, district or state does not accept the credits issued.

Obtaining CPE Credits

  • Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion for your records that will include the name of the course, the number of professional development hours completed and our CPE Provider number.
  • The Certificate of Completion is designed as a record that verifies that a professional development course was taken and passed.