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ELL / ESL LITERACY AND CULTURAL AWARENESS, PART I
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PART I: ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT This course explores the stages of language acquisition and English language development. Session topics will provide participants with current techniques for cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, applied formal language, social context, vocabulary building, applying prior and background knowledge, interactive learning, text adaption, assessment techniques, and other best practices. The lecturers concentrate on the practical application of strategies and activities that help English Language Learners develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Understanding Language Acquisition		Terri Peckham
Stages of Language Acquisition		David Noyes
Making Connections: Prior and Background Knowledge		David Noyes
Cooperative Learning and English Language Learners		David Noyes
Vocabulary and English Language Learners		David Noyes
Interactive Learning and Text Adaption for English Learners		David Noyes
Multiple Intelligences		David Noyes
The Application of Formal Language and Social Context for ELL		David Noyes
English Language Development		David Noyes
Assessment for English Language Learners		David Noyes

ELL / ESL LITERACY AND CULTURAL AWARENESS, PART II
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PART II: The A to Z of ELLs The presenters provide a 10-part series of effective classroom strategies for early English Language Learners (ELLs). The dynamic team demonstrates techniques for Differentiated Instruction for ELLs in the regular classroom. The course provides educators with a multicultural perspective to help them understand the unique needs of today’s ELLs / ESL students. The presenters share printable classroom materials including activities that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. The course will also provide educators with a multicultural perspective to help them understand the needs of their students and strategies to improve the school-home partnership.
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 1		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 2		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 3		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 4		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 5		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 6		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 7		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 8		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 9		Hope Blecher-Sass
The A to Z of ELLs: Part 10		Hope Blecher-Sass

TEACHING DIVERSE LEARNERS, PART I
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PART I: UNDERSTANDING POVERTY This course provides an overview of the issues and challenges of teaching diverse learners and students from poverty. The presenter imparts information on fostering resiliency, building a sense of community within the classroom, teaching to student modalities and the effects of poverty on student learning. Particular emphasis is placed on working with generational poverty, different modalities of learning, and process skills. The lecturer illustrates a collaborative approach through building relationships, understanding bias, setting goals, and following through with these established objectives.
Session 1: The Vocabulary of Diversity		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 2: Diversity and Education		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 3: The Different Modalities of Learning		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 4: Six Types of Bias		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 5: Generational Poverty		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 6: Poverty and Learning		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 7: Building Relationships		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 8: Setting Goals and Following Through		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 9: Declarative Knowledge and Poverty		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 10: Teaching Cognitive Skills to Children From Poverty		Donna Walker Tileston

TEACHING DIVERSE LEARNERS, PART II
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PART II: CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP (Second-half of a two-part series)This course will provide teachers of any grade level and discipline with timely information, strategies, and “best practices” relating to teaching today’s diverse learners in the regular classroom. Participants will examine the factors that make students different and the instructional implications for teaching decision-making and problem-solving skills to diverse populations. The lecturer illustrates techniques that will prepare participants to build resiliency, foster a sense of community within the classroom, teach to different student modalities, and comprehend the effects of poverty on student learning. The course present methodologies for best working with: (1) English Language Learners, (2) students from poverty, and (3) urban learners from poverty. The course provides process skills, behavioral issues unique to diverse groups, and methods for “putting it all together” to work with today’s varied student population.
Session 11: Teaching Processes to Students from Poverty		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 12: Process Skills and Poverty		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 13: Teaching Decision Making and Problem Solving		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 14: Changing Behaviors		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 15: Discipline and Poverty		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 16: Working With English Language Learners		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 17: Putting It All Together		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 18: Giving Meaning to Learning		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 19: Teaching The Diverse Brain to Read and Understand		Donna Walker Tileston
Session 20: Closing the Gap in Achievement		Donna Walker Tileston

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION, PART I
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PART I: MEETING VARIED STUDENT NEEDS How do teachers in the regular classroom teach and successfully manage a student population with widely varying academic needs? This course is comprehensive in its approach to differentiated instruction and includes effective strategies to reach and raise achievement amongst diverse groups of students. A special emphasis is placed in the areas of addressing the needs of gifted children and those with learning difficulties in the regular classroom. Classroom management techniques and designing standards-based instruction in the mixed ability classroom are examined. Presentations by a field of experts will help educators hone skills in the following areas: Differentiated Instruction, Standards-Based Instruction, and Classroom Management, Teaching K