Achieving High Levels of Success With ESL Students

All of our training opportunities are site-specific. That is, the content is tailored to the expressed needs of the participants, and it is delivered to your site.

As children enter classrooms with diverse language experiences, how can educators create classroom communities that build on students' cultural and linguistic resources while supporting their growth and development as English language learners? How can we connect language learning with critical literacy practices so that children not only learn language but also find their voice in the classroom?

While these are complex issues lacking simplistic solutions, this workshop offers frameworks for looking at language learning, shares strategies to invite students into valuable literacy opportunities, and explores ways in which those opportunities are linked to engagement and who students become as learners.

This workshop will provide conditions for supporting language learners, as well as frameworks, strategies, and resources that can better inform interactions with multilingual students as readers, writers, and literate people.

For more information, or to schedule this training, contact
PDK Professional Development at 800/766-1156
E-mail: PDKProfessionalDevelopment@pdkintl.org

Graduate Credit is available for this workshop. Call for details.

Our Mission:
We know, we believe, and we support that professional development is an intentional process, that it is ongoing, and that it is systemic. We know that it must be integrated within school improvement planning and it must focus on student improvement. It must be based on well-documented research, and it must be tailored to the needs of the participants and delivered to them at their site.