This course is for Teachers seeking ESL Certification in grades K-12 and meets the following professional development criteria: ESL Standards for Reading, Speech and Listening as well as the Pennsylvania Professional Education Criteria for classroom teachers, guidance counselors and education specialists, Enhances the educator’s content knowledge in the area of the educator’s certification or assignment, increases the educator’s teaching skills based on research on effective practice and empowers educators to work effectively with parent and community partners, and reading comprehension.
Participants will be evaluated through embedded quizzes and test, discussion board participation, article summary, critiques, case study, lesson plans, and other portfolio information.
Participants will complete a written project, performance assessment and an action plan for implementation.
This course is taught online and is part of the ESL Certification program. Participants will examine socio-linguistic aspects of U.S. and world cultures, sources of cross-cultural conflict, and approaches to cross-cultural conflict resolution as they relate to K-12 settings, their communities and the communities in which they teach.
This course is online and available for 24 hours a day during the term of the course. Participants have 2 weeks from the end of the course to finish work.
This is an online course. You will receive specific information concerning this course on the day before the start date. A User ID and link to the course site will be emailed to you at that time, there will not be any additional electronic communications before then. If books or materials are included in the tuition, these items will be mailed to you, provided the course is paid for, before the start of the course.
Participants must have a working knowledge of computers and Internet use, high speed Internet access, and a working email account for the duration of the course.
Make sure your email address and PDE ID# is correct in your account on this site.
