TARGET AUDIENCE:

Certified teachers and Classified employees who work directly with students in an instructional role.

Description

This course will provide valuable classroom strategies to ensure that ELLs are gaining access to grade level content in the mainstream classroom. Classroom teachers will learn and practice lesson planning to include the 9 components recommended by Bob Marzano that are shown to provide the best results in class.These 9 components will be reviewed and revised to work well with ELLs, k-12.Strategies will target how to make these components work for all ELLs at any grade or language level.Teachers will be ready to use these components and strategies to make content comprehensible.

This class is based on the training from McRel which is aligned to Bob Marzano´s book, "Classroom Instruction that Works". Participants should be familiar with his book."Classroom Strategies that Work for ELLs" by Jane Hill and Cynthia Bjork is one of the class resources that will be provided.
Participants will learn how to make grade level content comprehensible using stategies that compliment the 9 components from Marzano. These strategies are research based and proven to work for ELLs.

Objective

This course will provide valuable classroom strategies to ensure that ELLs are gaining access to grade level content in the mainstream classroom. Classroom teachers will learn and practice strategies to include the 9 components recommended by Bob Marzano that are shown to provide the best results in class.These 9 components will be reviewed and revised to work well with ELLs, k-12. Strategies will target how to make these components work for all ELLs at any grade or language level.Teachers will be ready to use these components and strategies to make content comprehensible.

SKILLS BLOCK NOTE:

• Charter School employees should check with their supervisor regarding eligibility for Skill Block payment.
• Substitutes and Non-employees may register for skill blocks for a small registration fee.