Co-Teaching within the Remote Learning Environment
• Co-Planning: Core content teachers should meet virtually with the CLD teacher with regular frequency (e.g., at least once a week) to plan their lessons and provide modifications to their lessons to best support ELs.
• When core content and ELD teachers plan their lessons together, content and ELD teachers can review and prioritize the lesson-level language objectives that ELs will need to support the content objectives at home.
• Working with content teachers, ELD teachers can set language objectives that are connected and consistent.
Remote Learning Instructional Tools:
Use all resources available to you (Whatsapp, Google Hangout, Zoom, etc.) Link: VIDEO TOOLS
Create video mini-lessons to support language demands, access to content, visual examples, etc. where appropriate. -Use resources such as, Buncee, Adobe Spark, Google Sites, VIDEO TOOLS, Awesome Apps and Websites, WIDA: Teaching Multilingual Learners Online,
Create highlighted texts, provide word banks, sentence frames, Thinking Maps, etc. as appropriate. These may need to be sent individually to students based upon need.
Send links to audiobooks or record yourself reading the text for the assignment where appropriate (screencasting or video is a way to do this). Use a resource such as, Audible Stories or Camtasia offers a free trial for screencasting, Camtasia
PK-Elementary Online Resources for English Learners Resource list divided by grade level and language level
Middle School Online Resources for English Language Learners Resource list for middle school and language level
High School Online Resources for English Language Learners Resource list for high school and language level
K-12 Online Resources for English Learners Resource list of helpful sites to engage English learners from kindergarten to twelfth grade
WIDA’S insights on Teaching Multilingual Learners Online
Common Sense Media Supports educators in teaching students how to thrive in the digital age with free, research-backed lesson plans in English and Spanish
Twig Education Students can access thousands of videos in English/Spanish that include lessons, activities, and visuals