Maximizing Learning for English Language Learners
3 Video Set

Here’s a professional development tool that helps teachers and administrators address the needs of English language learners (ELL). Use the three videotapes and Facilitator’s Guide to create workshops and presentations that inform teachers and other audiences of proven approaches.

Use Tape 1, Models of Teaching, to give your school a common point of understanding for ELL students and the various models currently used. Visit four successful schools to explore how each model works in practice and hear experienced ELL educators explain the strengths of each.

Use Tape 2, Teaching Strategies, to showcase teaching strategies that work well with ELL students. Throughout the video, teachers use their favorite ELL teaching strategies, discuss their approaches, and explain how these strategies work best in social studies, math, and science.

Tape 3, Ensuring Success in All Classrooms, helps educators at all levels explore the tough issues of assessing ELL students, including learning disabilities and practices for determining giftedness. Plus, experts explain how to encourage teachers to adopt ELL strategies and how ELL teachers can help content teachers who have ELL students in their classroom.

The accompanying Facilitator’s Guide has agendas for two different workshops for each video in the series, plus all the handouts and overheads you need, and a selection of articles you can duplicate and distribute to workshop participants.

An ASCD production.

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