Tools and Resources
Staffing and Supporting ELL Program
Tool 1: Professional Development for ELL teachers should include:
1.Build on prior knowledge
2.Engagae
3.practice, feedback, follow up
4. track progress in teacher skills
5. track student performance progress
Tool 2: Professionals Development for General Ed. teachers with ELLs should include:
- Development of high standards for students
-adapt expectations
-effective pedagogy
-english instruction is comprehensible and meaningful
Tool 3:Meeting the needs of ELLs
-support oral language development
-teach academic vocabulary explicitly
-cultural diversity should be valued
Tool: 4 Frameworks for supporting classroom teaching of ELLs
1.planning and preparation
2.designing coherent instruction
-materials and resources
3. Instruction- engage students