Academic MTSS MS Literacy Focus: Implementing “Word Generation” to Enhance Language Skills
Quality Education for English Learners: 50 Years of Development, Durable Ideas and Required Shifts
Session Dates
Wednesday February 26, 2020 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM - PaTTAN - CENTRAL
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This presentation reviews key themes in the education of English Learners across the last half century. Theoretical understandings, their impact, permanence, and the need to restructure ideas and practices will be key components. The argument will be made that while life and requirements for students to be community, college, and career ready have changed dramatically in the last 50 years, pedagogical practices have not kept up to pace. With illustrations from pedagogical materials and video clips notions such as sociocultural theory and the centrality of oral interaction in development, scaffolding, lesson design, and text complexity will be revised and put in perspective. Participants will leave the session being able to provide explanations of why interaction and meta processes are the engine that should drive the conceptual, analytic, and language practices of English Learners.
Objectives:
After the professional development participants will be able to:
- List key components in a sociocultural approach to the academic development of English Learners
- Explain scaffolding
- Identify when teacher help does not constitute an instance of scaffolding
- Name the three moments of a lesson
Target Audience
Word Generation Series Teams, Administrators, General and Special Education Teachers, ESL Providers, Reading Specialists, Speech/Language Therapists, Tiered Providers, Paraprofessionals
Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate individuals who have special needs as addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and who need assistance at this event. Contact: Kelly Kapp, at 717-901-2271, or
kkapp@pattan.net.