Workshop Description:

How do we develop students' reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills? The previous approach was to do worksheets, do skills lessons

Learner Outcomes:

Teachers will leave with a specific protocol for integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening to develop their students' academic literacy skills.

Presenter:

Tan Huynh (@TanKHuynh) is a secondary school teacher specializing in English language acquisition, an author, podcaster, and consultant. He has taught students from 5th to 10th grade in domestic public, private, and charter, but the bulk of his experience has been in international schools. He also taught social studies and spends much of his days co-planning and co-teaching. Tan is trained in sheltered instruction, WIDA, culturally-responsive instruction, International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program, and the Collaborative Instructional Cycle. Tan shares his application of research-based strategies on his blog, podcast, and online courses with the hopes of celebrating teachers who answer the calling to serve multilingual learners. He holds a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction specializing in language acquisition. You can learn more about his work by going to TanKHuynh.com.