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.
Participants will also be assessed using a multiple choice pre and post assessment. Scores on the post assessment must be at least 80%. In addition a lesson plan or project with action plan is required.
Finally an implementation plan will be completed by participants indicating how new learning will be integrated into their assignments.
This course is designed for teachers of English Language Learners. Because ELL students come to us with a variety of backgrounds and at diverse levels of language acquisition, it is important for ESL teachers to have the knowledge and skills necessary to create and implement a developmentally appropriate curricular program for all students.
Upon completion of this course, teachers will be expected to be able to: design and implement an ESL program tailored to meet the needs of each student. Participants will be able to identify appropriate materials and resources to be used with children at each level of English Proficiency.
Required out-of-class work includes creating lesson plans, reading articles, and conduct internet searches for materials, discussion board participation and a final project in the form of a written paper to demonstrate how they will apply information in this class to their classroom instruction.
This project will meet both the National TESOL Standards and Pennsylvania Language Proficiency Standards for English Language Learners.
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.
Fee includes text.
Required Text: Teaching English Language Learners Cultural Implications, Communications, Connections, Curriculum, by Janet L Pierce.
NOTE: This book is privately published, it is not available from retailers. The book will be provided by IU 1.
