Teaching English Language Learners
Course Description
This course provides strategies to help educators teach English Language Learners (ELLs) in the classroom so they can understand grade level content. Teaching ELLs requires specific and proven teaching approaches that work, and this course is designed to accommodate this methodology. Learning English at the same time as learning content specific material is especially difficult. As such, this teaching ELL course helps educators meet the needs of these learners. From vocabulary specific strategies to integrating language objectives, this course offers a variety of teaching strategies. Taken together, they are designed to help make sure ELLs are able to learn in a grade level appropriate classroom. This is an online course. Upon registration, your course materials will be emailed to you.Course Numbers
Our Teaching English Language Learners course may be noted differently in various institutional syllabi. Below are two common course numbers for our Teaching English Language Learners course, for reference:
- Adams State: ED 589
- UMass Global: EDEU 9957
- Valley City State University: Click HERE for a list of course numbers
If in doubt about your institutional code for our course on ELL teaching, go to the source. Contact your institution for precise codes on this ELL training for teachers coursework.
Course Learning Objectives
This is a professional development course specifically designed to improve one’s ability at teaching English learners. It centers on real-world examples and strategies that can be employed in your classroom.
Teaching English learners centers on methodical approaches to the practice. Due to the varying nature of student comprehension, our coursework is non-assumptive. This course empowers educators to be better equipped to handle numerous levels of comprehension.
Upon completion of our English language teaching course, language teachers will be able to:
- Learn different strategies to teach grade level content to their English Language Learners (ELLs).
- Apply strategies for lesson planning, building background knowledge, and vocabulary development to help make content comprehensible for ELLs.
- Develop skills to reflect on & improve their own teaching practices.
Relevancy to Practice: This course provides educators with skills for better teaching English to speakers of a foreign language. It contains the following relevant information to help improve their practice when working with speakers of other languages:
- Means of boosting language acquisition in one’s students with a mix of proficiency levels.
- Strategies for prepping a lesson for a mixed general education classroom. Specifically: lesson planning that is inclusive of both English Language Learners (ELLs) and native English speakers.
- Writing content objectives and language objectives to post in the classroom for all students to see each day.
- Scaffolding curriculum and differentiating lessons to help ELLs meet grade level content expectations.
- Building ELLs’ background knowledge as well as making connections between the content and their background knowledge.
- Strategies for making content relevant and meaningful so students learn more naturally.
- Vocabulary strategies that help ELLs deepen their level of understanding of content specific vocabulary.
By the end of the course, educators will be better equipped at teaching English to English language learners.
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