Bilingual Education & World Languages (BEWL)

#48260 BEWL_TPR & Comprehensible Input: Enhancing Active Language Learning: Summer 2023 

Course Description: Students enter our classrooms with various needs. Our goal as educators is to meet our students’ needs while applying content knowledge. Students who struggle with language processing or executive functioning challenges are circumstances that are not always addressed through traditional instructional methods. Receptive language is the primary focus of this professional learning, leading to expressive language for all learners. There are many steps along the way, but this is what we will address in this professional learning. 

Target Audience:  World Language and ENL Teachers 

PLI/CTLE Hours: 4

Dates:  6/28 /23 or 8/28/23

Time:  8 am -12 pm

48156 BEWL_Co-Planning for Co-Teaching in the Integrated ENL Classroom

Course Description: Anchored in the text, Co-Planning: 5 Essential Practices to Integrated Curriculum by Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria G.Dove, participants will be provided with strategies that align with essential concepts and practices in co-planning, and ways in which teachers, content and ENL together, can effectively develop and deliver shared learning experiences. Additionally, participants will become familiar with the collaborative instructional cycle in order to engage in shared planning and instructional delivery, collaborative assessment of student learning, and reflection on action and in action. 

Target Audience:  World Language and ENL Teachers 

PLI/CTLE Hours: 4

Dates:  7/5/23 and 7/6/23

Time:  4 pm-6 pm

48313 BEWL_Dynamic Bilingualism

Course Description: The dynamic bilingualism course is intended to develop bilingual fluency in our students, improve their communication skills in two languages, and gain a deeper understanding of the cultural and social aspects of bilingualism. Participants will engage in learning about language acquisition, language maintenance, translanguaging, and the cognitive and social benefits of bilingualism. 

Target Audience:  World Language and ENL Teachers 

PLI/CTLE Hours: 2

Dates:  7/25/23 or 7/26/23

Time:  9 am-11 am

48157 BEWL_Long-Term ELLs: Developing Your Own Strategies and Core Routines to Support Older Students

Course Description: Participants will define the term long-term ELL and what this can mean for our 7th -12the grade students. They will discuss the implications for a student that is a long-term ELL, strategies to support, and structures that are additive to the student experience in your classroom. Teachers will explore scenarios and collaboratively plan for support, both instructionally, and social-emotionally, using case studies 

Target Audience:  World Language and ENL Teachers 

PLI/CTLE Hours: 2

Dates:  7/12/23 

Time:  4 pm-6 pm

48300 BEWL_Supporting ELLs After Trauma

Course Description: Anchored in the text, Supporting the Journey of English Learners after Tramua, by Brenda Custodio and  Judith O'Loughlin participants will unpack the effect of trauma on English learners, strategies for social-emotional engagement, and how this trauma impacts their academic, social and emotional components of their lives. While the 6 hours will be focused on reflection on the text, participants will need to complete the reading assignments on their own. 

Target Audience:  World Language and ENL Teachers 

PLI/CTLE Hours: 6

Dates:  7/18/23  and 7/25/23

Time:  4 pm-7 pm

48314 BEWL_Literacy Block: Oracy the precursor and foundation to literacy

Course Description: The emphasis of the course "Literacy Block: Oracy the precursor and foundation to literacy" is on the significance of oral language development in creating the foundation for effective literacy abilities. Students will discover how oral language contributes to vocabulary growth, developing comprehension skills, and the growth of critical thinking capacity. Participants will develop their personal oracy skills, which include speaking, listening, and presenting, through a variety of exercises and conversations. Participants will have a clearer awareness of the critical link between oracy and literacy by the end of the course, as well as how this foundation can support long-term academic achievement. 

Target Audience:  World Language and ENL Teachers 

PLI/CTLE Hours: 2

Dates:  7/26/23 4 pm-6 pm or 8/9/23 9 am- 11am