English Learners Professional Development

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Overview

English Learners Professional Development (ELPD) provides 40 hours of professional development intended to be follow-up training to the initial 40 hours of core curriculum provided by SB 472. This program will include foundational knowledge specifically designed to assist English Learners (EL) pupils to meet the language and academic instructional needs of reading/language arts and content area instruction. This training also helps teachers of EL pupils understand and apply knowledge of linguistic structures to adopted instructional materials.

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Elementary Services

Access to Core

• Frontloading English Language Instruction
  
  • K-6 teachers, three day training with follow-up.
  • Prepares teachers to effectively teach language throughout the instructional day with particular emphasis on how to link language instruction to reading instruction using CA State Board-adopted Open Court Reading and/or Houghton Mifflin program.
     
• WRITE Institute
  • 4-6 teachers, three day training with follow-up.
  • Genre specific, strategies on how second language learners acquire literacy skills and how to align curriculum and assessment to both the English Language Arts and English Language Development standards in the area of writing.  
     

English/Language Development

• Systematic ELD (SELD)
  • K-6 teachers, - three day training with follow-up.
  • A detailed framework for designing an ELD program that teaches and practices the vocabulary and grammatical structures of English for a wide range of purposes at each level of proficiency.
     
• ADEPT - A Development English Proficiency Test
  • K-6 teachers
  • A valid and reliable oral language assessment instrument (aligned with the CELDT) that can be used with English Learners.
  • The ADEPT assesses key forms, or grammatical structures, through the carefully worded prompts that elicit student responses.
     
• Side by Side
  • K-6 teachers.
  • A document that addresses the California English Language Arts content standards by levels of language acquisition at each grade level.
  • It is a practical tool to facilitate cognitive planning and differentiation of the ELA standards for English Learners.
    

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Secondary Services

Access to Core

• Constructing Meaning
  • 6 -12 teacher, 20 hour training.
  • It offers teachers the process and the tools to identify specific, content-driven language objectives and design instruction to address those objectives.
  • Focuses on the functional language component only
     
• SALT
  • 6-12 teachers, 4 modules / 1 day each
  • Writing to Learn, Functional Language, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension.
  • Participants will be able to conduct a detailed analysis of the linguistic demands of classroom texts and materials, provide purposeful instruction in vocabulary, monitor comprehension on a consistent basis, backward plan from State Standards and content outcomes.
     

English/Language Development

• WRITE Institute
  • 7-12 teachers, - three day training with follow-up.
  • Genre specific, strategies on how second language learners acquire literacy skills and how to align curriculum and assessment to both the English Language Arts and English Language Development standards in the area of writing.
     
• ADEPT - Development English Proficiency Test
  • 7-8 teachers.
  • A valid and reliable oral language assessment instrument (aligned with the CELDT) that can be used with English Learners.
  • The ADEPT assesses key forms, or grammatical structures, through the carefully worded prompts that elicit student responses.
     
• CAHSEE Prep
  • Standards-based, strategically organized and scaffolded lessons to prepare middle and high school English learners and struggling writers for CAHSEE successes.

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