Led by Beth Skelton
Why register?
Do you have students in your secondary humanities 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, this interactive workshop is for you. You will leave the workshop with a lesson plan full of supports and scaffolds that you can implement right away.
Registration
Early-bird rate: Euro 75 (register by January 25, 2021)
Standard rate: US$1500 (closes on January 27, 2021)
The event will go live 10 minutes before the start time of the programme
Event details
Who is it for?
Grade 6-12 humanities (individuals and societies) teachers.
Grade 6-12 EAL teachers who support students in humanities classes.
Teams of humanities teachers and EAL teachers.
Workshop goals
Identify students’ linguistic and cultural assets and needs
Analyze the academic language demands of humanities courses
Identify the language objectives in a lesson
Experience and apply supports and scaffolds in a model humanities lesson
Transfer supports and scaffolds to a lesson/unit design
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.