NCTE ELL Consultants are available to present one-day, multi-day, or year-round consulting. Sample workshop descriptions are listed below the presenter listing. All workshops and presentations can be customized to meet your specific needs.
Mary Cappellini, K-5, balanced literacy, shared reading, guided reading, comprehension
Douglas Fisher, K-12, grammar, fluency, comprehension for ELL's in the classroom
Barbara Flores, K-5, beginning literacy and biliteracy, beginning and struggling ELL readers
David & Yvonne Freeman, K-16, academic language, reading proficiency, dual language programs
Nancy Frey, K-12, grammar, fluency, and comprehension for ELL's in the classroom
Danling Fu, K-12, reading, writing, speaking, and listening for ELL's
Susi Long, K-5, Embracing Multiple Languages in PreK and Elementary Classrooms
Mary Lou McCloskey, K-16, curriculum development, program planning & evaluation, reading & writing instruction
Sandra Mercuri, K-12, dual language instruction, bilingual program alignment, academic language, biliteracy
Mary-Catherine Moran, K-12, Differentiated Instruction, Literacy Development, ELL's with Exceptional Needs
Carol Rothenberg, K-12, grammar, fluency, and comprehension for ELL's in the classroom
Susan Stires, K-5, reading and writing, balanced literacy, curriculum planning
Katie Van Sluys, K-8, Multilingual learners in literacy classrooms
Language Learners in the English Classroom
Consultant: Douglas Fisher
Audiences: Teachers, administrators and/or parents
In this workshop, Doug focuses on the role of English teachers in developing students’ language. Specifically, participants will focus on grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension in both reading and writing instruction relative to English language learners.
Using the Picture Word Inductive Model (Calhoun, 1999) with English Language Learners
Consultant: Mary-Catherine Moran
The PWIM is an inquiry-oriented language arts strategy that uses pictures containing familiar objects and actions to elicit words from children's listening and speaking vocabularies (Calhoun, 1999).
PWIM is a literacy teaching tool that is ideally suited to the needs of English Language Learners. It is motivating, has the potential to tap child and family “funds of knowledge”, and provides content and context based experiences in vocabulary, phonics, and text comprehension. M.C. can introduce your staff to this literacy learning protocol and help facilitate implementation in tutoring and teaching situations.
Reference: Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing with the Picture Word Inductive Model by Emily F. Calhoun – ASCD (1999)
English Language Learners: Embracing Multiple Languagues in PreK and Elementary Classrooms
Consultant: Susi Long
Audiences: Teachers, administrators and/or parents
In this workshop, Susi works with teachers to consider the construction of classrooms that embrace multiple languges spoken by children and families as rich resources to promote the learning of all students.
“They Come From Brilliance”: Home and Community Language and Literacies and Implications for Learning in the Lives of All Children
Consultant: Susi Long
Audiences: K-12 Teachers, Parents, and School and District Administrators(Sessions can be designed for groups that include a variety of educational stakeholders or that focus on one group of educators; sessions can also be developed for teacher/parent groups in consultation with Susi)
This session begins with Lisa Delpit’s remarkable line, “What happens . . . when we convince them that they come from brilliance?” (The Skin That We Speak, p. 46) and continues by sharing stories from teachers who have moved beyond their own cultural comfort zones to get to know children and families in new ways, upturning stereotypes and invalidating a deficit perspective by looking at children and families for what they know, can do, care about, and cherish. From this foundation, we work to build curriculum in specific ways that draws on the resources of a richly diverse society as foundational to thoughtful literacy experiences for all children. In this workshop, Susi shares stories but also actively involves participants in engagements to clarify key points and to provide starting points for exploring home and community literacies, and funds of knowledge (Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005) with children and families in their own schools.
Inviting All Children into Learning: Building on Students' Cultural and Linguistic Resources
Consultant: Katie Van Sluys
Audience: K-12 Teachers and administrators
n this workshop, Katie works with educators to explore understandings of language learning for students new to English. Participants are invited to explore strategic curricular possibilities for engaging language learners in their schools and classrooms.