ELL Strategies Course

Mrs. Hatley and I are both ESL teachers at Concord HS. We both provide co-teaching/inclusion services in all content areas. Our teachers are amazing and very open to collaborate and learn new ways to support our English learners. Together we are creating a culture of responsibility to grow our English learners not only academically but also linguistically. 

During the month of December, we sent our staff an email offering an ELL strategies course where teachers can learn effective practices to support ELs. Participation to our course was not made mandatory and CEUs (content credits) were offered.
We were super excited when we heard from over 25 staff members who wanted to participate. 

Our group meets once a week for 30 minutes with a 30 minute homework assignment to be completed during the week. 

During the month of January, we met four times and we've had a total of 10 teachers participating with consistency. Among the attendees, we have out MTSS couch, administrators, and core teachers. 
The session and strategies learned were as follows: 

• Students Background: Learning who our students are! - Read Post HERE 
• Understanding Second Language Acquisition - Read Post HERE  
• ​SLA and Affective Filter - Read Post HERE 
• ELLevation's Instructional Framework - Read post HERE 
• Effective Activities that Support Effective Practices - Read post HERE 
• Elevator Speeches about our learning in ELL Strategies Course. Post coming soon...
  

​Thank you for reading!