Transform Instruction for ELs Using Innovative Digital Tools

Agenda:
 -Intro to Language Acquisition
 - Comprehensible Input
 - Oral Language Development
 - Transform Your Teaching - Tech Style
​ - Evaluation

ICE-breaker

Find an interesting event that happened on your birthday.  Introduce yourself and share your event!

Building Language

Discover the difference between
BICS (Social language)
​and CALP (academic language).  

Affective Filter


Consider how anxiety and fear
impacts language growth
​and academic success.

Comprehensible Input

Provide students with the necessary information in order to understand and interpret new linguistic cues.

Tune In

Fine tune listening skills through a variety of active learning strategies.

Say Something

Get them talking!

Oral Language

Oral language is the foundation for literacy and content learning. 

Discover

Reading, Watching, Exploring.... Oh My!

Students as Producers

Express yourself!