Counseling gifted students to help them achieve their talents requires skillful coaching and motivational address of the students in their care. This course will teach the background and legal requirements of ESOL programs for both state and federal requirements in order to effectively support students’ academic track toward college and career choices. Participants will examine multiple self-concept and motivational strategies, practice with motivational technique geared specifically for ESOL students to guide them throughout a responsible college and career track.
Course Outcomes:
- Counsel, advise, and support students in their development of language proficiencies.
- Use and apply enhanced counseling and communication skills to support students at home, in the classroom, and throughout their academic track.
- Recognize and paraphrase the differences among language proficiencies in native tongue and in English through the administration of aptitude testing, learning styles inventories, interest inventories, and application of multiple intelligences theories.
- Support student development as it flows into and out of district and school curriculum.
- Assist students and their families in support of academic achievement, social and emotional interferences to academic achievement and college and career readiness.
- Assist students in advanced placement, career exploration, development of LEP plans, LEP Student Plans, and academic readiness for higher education.
- Develop support strategies for all instructional and academic needs for LEP students.
- Develop strategies for LEP family outreach.
- Develop strategies for community outreach on behalf of LEP students.
- Build the capacity of LEP students in accessing and utilizing resources for personal and academic gain in furtherance of a responsible and appropriate academic track beyond the classroom.
This course is 60 hours
- Teacher: Shannon Arczynski
This course will take participants into deep realms of content area reading and writing to include literary and non-fiction across multiple genres, reading comprehension, critical literacy, questioning strategies, and leveling of resources to differentiate for standards and second language learners’ needs. Participants will learn about, become familiar and practice with the resources that determine text complexity and level libraries. Participants will learn to use running records and anecdotal data to analyze, evaluate, and plan for student needs. With a focus on grade level writing differentiated for ELLs, participants will cull the writing and language standards for applicability to content-specific reading and writing in ELL instruction. In doing so, participants will level strategy and expectation with assignments as they align with state and national standards. Assignments will include developing performance tasks and comprehensive lessons, unit planning and preparation and rigorous participation in discussion forums. Participants will learn to strategically scaffold in order to close grade-level achievement gaps while meeting the expectations for ELLs.
Course Objectives:
- Apply new strategies to teaching ELLs while facilitating grade-level standards-based language standards in reading, writing, listening and speaking.
- Understand how to assess students using standards-based formative and summative assessments while using assessment data to close achievement gaps among ELLs.
- Select methods to improve listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills for a variety of academic and social purposes.
- Apply standards-based instruction through design and implementation to develop the skills ELLs need for academic success.
- Resource and apply tools that determine text complexity.
- Use and plan with resources that support content area reading and writing specific to ELLs.
- Understand genre as it applies to reading and writing specific to ELLs.
- Learn and apply research-based strategies to plan, differentiate, and scaffold reading and writing tasks for ELLs.
This course is 60 hours
- Teacher: Shannon Arczynski
- Teacher: Shannon Arczynski
Strategies for Professionals - 18 hours
- Teacher: Shannon Arczynski