Led by Beth Skelton
Why register?
Do you teach students in your secondary classes who speak one or more languages other than English at home? If you are interested in practical, easy-to-implement strategies, supports, and scaffolds to ensure that all students can comprehend your lessons and share their understanding orally and in writing, then you may be interested in one of a series of content-specific workshops with Beth Skelton offered starting January 26, 2021.
This free taster session on the 18 January will allow you to ‘meet’ with Beth, experience her style and see what great takeaways you will get from her other courses in the series!
Registration
This is a free event.
The event registration page will go live 10 minutes before the event begins.
Event details
Who is it for?
Grade 6-12 single-subject teachers
Grade 6-12 EAL teachers who support students in single-subject classes
Workshop goals
An introduction to Beth Skelton and the upcoming content-specific sessions
At least 1 or 2 quick ‘take away’ strategies applicable to any content area
An opportunity to share your most pressing needs regarding working with secondary EAL students
Featured speaker
Beth Skelton
Beth Skelton provides professional development, coaching, and consulting for schools around the world focused on creating equitable education for multilingual learners. She believes that all students are academic language learners and that all teachers are language teachers.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Multicultural Teacher Education and has worked with early childhood, elementary, middle, high school and adult language learners in rural, urban, suburban, and international school settings for over 30 years. She began her career as a German teacher and continues to be fascinated with the language acquisition process. She has extensive experience and training in Kagan cooperative learning, Harvard Project Zero and Visible Thinking Routines, the WIDA framework, SIOP, International Baccalaureate English B course, Marzano’s Strategies that Work for English Learners, Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS) for English Learners, and student-centered instructional coaching. She has published materials for teaching adult English Learners with the TPRS method entitled Putting it Together, which have been translated into Spanish, Dutch, French, and sign language.