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Welcome to TELL
Course Syllabus: Foundations of Education for Emergent Bilinguals
Explanation of the Template
Total Points Sheet
Session One: Exploring My Culture and ELs Strengths
LA 1.1: Welcome to TELL
LA 1.2: Belief Statements
LA 1.3: Questions About Culture
LA 1.4: Considering a Framework for Meeting the Needs of My Students
LA 1.5: Considering Concepts as Tools
HW 1.1: Reflection on My Learning
HW 1.2: Find and Share Cultural Artifacts
HW 1.3: Building Vocabulary About Culture
HW 1.4: Assessing My Knowledge and Beliefs
HW 1.5: Representation of My Learning in the Course
Session Two: Developing Understandings of Culture--Mine and My ELs
LA 2.1: Share Cultural Artifacts
LA 2.2: Building Vocabulary About Culture
LA 2.3: Examining Definitions of Immigrants
LA 2.4: Discuss Stereotypes and Culture
LA 2.5: Articulating Classroom Issues of Cultural Misinterpretation
LA 2.6: Resolving Questions about the Major Project and Homework Assigments
HW 2.1: Reflecting On My Practice
HW 2.2: The State's Changing Demographics
HW 2.3: Danger of a Single Story
HW 2.4: Cultural Patterns of an EL
Session Three: Considering ELs as a Resource in My Teaching
LA 3.1: Water as a Problem, Right, and Resource
LA 3.2: Language as a Problem, Right, and Resource
LA 3.3: Mr. Chacon's Story
VS 3.3: Social Theories Part 2
LA 3.4: Norma's Story
LA 3.5: Jean Anyon Study
HW 3.1: Teacher Reflection
HW 3.2: Considering the Myths and Realities Concerning ELs
HW 3.3: Reading about Poverty PhDs
HW 3.4: Discovering Assets in My Community
HW 3.5: Considering the Difference between the North Star and the Map to Philadelphia
Session Four: Developing Knowledge of Assets and Legal Obligations
LA 4.1: Sharing the Assets of Our School Neighborhood.
LA 4.2 : Reviewing the Changing Demographics
LA 4.3: Exploring Learning about EL Myths and Realities
LA 4.4: Examining the Meaning of a Supreme Court Decision
LA 4.5: Common Compliance Issues from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Department of Justice (DOJ)
HW 4.1: Teacher Reflection
HW 4.2: Understanding the Myths and Realities of Enrollment
HW 4.3: The World Outside and Inside Schools
HW 4.4: Reviewing and Analyzing Landmark Cases/Legislation Involving ELs
HW 4.5: Implications of Court Decisions for ELLs
Session Five: Attending to Standards and Classifications with WIDA
LA 5.1: Enrollment, Placement, Staffing Myths
LA 5.2: Program Models
LA 5.3: The World Outside and Inside Schools
LA 5.4: Introduction to WIDA standards
HW 5.1 Teacher Reflection
HW 5.2: Creating a WIDA Strand
HW 5.3 Exploring Practice Through Technology
HW 5.4 Learning about Classifications and Standards
Session Six: Positioning ELs within the School Game
LA 6.1: Sharing Thinking about Program Models
LA 6.2: Critical Learning Domains
LA 6.3: Standards for Effective Pedagogy
LA 6.4: Connecting ELs to the School Game
HW 6.1: Teacher Reflection
HW 6.2: Reconsidering Beliefs and Practices
HW 6.3: Learning a New Language
HW 6.4: Collecting Evidence for My Portfolio
Session Seven: Promoting ELs Learning through My Learning
LA 7.1: Re-Examining My Learning about Inclusive Pedagogy, WIDA, SEP, & My Beliefs
LA 7.2 Developing My Portfolio
HW 7.1: Teacher Reflection
HW 7.2: Representation of My Learning in the Course
Session Eight: Celebrating and Presenting My Learning
LA 8.1: Sharing Displays of Learning
LA 8.2: Summarizing Ideas
LA 8.3: Revisiting Course Survey

HW 6.1: Teacher Reflection

Rethinking My Practice and Trying out New Ideas

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Learning Outcome Pedagogical Intent Student Position

Understand and apply knowledge of how cultural identities impact language learning and school success by creating an environment that is inclusive of all students.   


Assessment: 50 pts.

Due: Session 7

 Teachers can reflect on the learning activities in the session and explore ways to integrate the modeled strategies and content into their own pedagogy

Teachers have participated in the sixth session of the ESL endorsement.  They are now ready to reflect on the activities of the session and find ways to incorporate them into their own teaching. 

Instructions

  1. As you think about your teaching this week consider the following questions:
    1. What are the three critical learning domains? What evidence do you see in your teaching that you are attending to all three.  Which seem to be strong and which seem to be weak?
    2. Which of the five Standards for Effective Pedagogy are you most familiar with and which are most evident in your classroom? Which seem to need your attention and what can you do to increase the use of the standard?
  2. What action did you take after this session in your practice or how did your change in thinking impact your beliefs. Begin with your experience, your wonder (questions) or the new idea that lead to your change and then include each of the elements of the Reflection Model: personal voice (I), description of an experience, link to knowledge, questions raised. Allow yourself to reveal your emotion. Review the documents linked to support you in your reflection.
  3. Some helps include thinking about what event either before, during, or after some action you took in teaching sticks in your mind. Think about based on this session --What did you learn, unlearn, and relearn this week?
  4. Be sure to submit to your facilitator through e-mail or the course management system.
  5. REMEMBER: In HW 1. 5 you reviewed the guidelines for the final project. As you reflect this week, did you have an aha about one of the characteristics of Inclusive Pedagogy? If so remember to save the artifact and your explantion so that it will be available when you construct your final portfolio. 

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