Institute - Help English Learners Exit Your ELL Program: Powerful Strategies to Increase Student Success (Grades K-8)

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Plan to attend as a school or district team, a representative team member or district leader to increase the effectiveness of your ELL program. You will learn how to build on the success of your current program, identify the key components that have the greatest impact on the achievement of ELL students and find the specific areas you need to target for implementation and improvement. Leave equipped with a wealth of the most effective ELL instructional strategies that will help increase the achievement and progress of your ELL students in grades K-8.

Discover the attributes of highly successful ELL programs and how you can use these in your own program, including building teacher instructional expertise in working with ELL students. Gain dozens of practical, instructional strategies you can use immediately with your students. During the two days, you will learn how to better serve ELL students in the general education classroom as well as in a pull-out model. You will learn key strategies to lead and teach other educators to implement effective instructional practices that work with your ELL population. Don't miss this unique two-day opportunity to strenghten the achievement of your ELL students and exit them from your ELL program.

As an experienced teacher of ELL students, I know firsthand the challenges we face to help our students achieve at the high standards expected of them. In this highly practical institute, you will receive research-based strategies that have been proven to strengthen language skills of ELL students. I have seen so many students get stuck at the intermediate English levels and stay there for years. I will share with you highly effective and motivating strategies to help our students more rapidly "exit" the ELL program. I will provide dozens of cooperative group, whole group, small group and independent activities to motivate and engage students at each level of language acquisition. You will learn numerous games, engaging activities, and innovative ideas to teach language skills across the curriculum.

Helping our ELL students gain confidence and competence as they learn English can be very rewarding. Being a member of a culturally diverse classroom can be an enriching experience for teachers and students. You will leave this institute with a wealth of highly effective and practical strategies for accelerating language skills, promoting self-esteem, and creating a community of active, engaged learners. Let me share what I have learned with you, so that you can also experience the rewards of helping your ELL students make more rapid progress. "Exiting" students from your ELL program because they have acquired English language proficiency is the best kind of caseload reduction there is! You'll leave this institute feeling invigorated and equipped with a toolbox full of ideas, resources and strategies you can use immediately. I look forward to meeting you at the institute!

P.S. You will leave this institute with an extensive digital resource handbook and dozens of use-tomorrow strategies, and a renewed desire to make a significant difference in the lives of your English Learners.

K-8 District and School Leaders and Leadership Teams: District Curriculum Coordinators, ELL Directors, Principals, Literacy Coaches, ELL Specialists and Classroom Teachers

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas This institute provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in helping English Learners exit their ELL programs.

Consultation Available Mary Peterson will be available to address your specific questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

What you'll learn

• Highly practical techniques and activities to prevent ELL students from becoming "stuck" at intermediate levels of English proficiency and help them more rapidly exit your ELL program
• Learn the key components of the most exemplary ELL programs that increase the success of English Language Learners in small group instruction and in the general classroom
• Organize your ELL program around highly practical ideas, activities, and lessons to strengthen and develop the reading and writing skills of ELL students
• Innovative classroom strategies based on the best, current research to enable ELLs to become more confident, engaged students who overcome language and literacy barriers