NCTE offers consultants and services on ELL instruction that when used together, provide extended learning opportunities for teachers and makes a positive impact on learning. These opportunities include the ELL Pathways Program, Web Seminars and ELL books for study groups.
Consultants are available to present one-day or multi-day presentations or provide year-round consulting. All workshops and presentations can be customized to meet your specific needs.
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
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.
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
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.
Inviting All Children into Learning: Building on Students' Cultural and Linguistic Resources
Consultant: Katie Van Sluys Audience: K-12 Teachers and administrators
In 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.