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Assisting, Collaborating, and Training ESL Content Teachers (ACT-ESL). Hosted by VCU School of Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Assisting, Collaborating, and Training ESL
Content Teachers (ACT-ESL)
Hosted by VCU School of Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education
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What is the ACT-ESL Partnership?
The ACT-ESL Project at VCU is designed to train Chesterfield content-area teachers in instructional methods which promote ELLs’ academic engagement and success.
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ACT-ESL Teacher Participants
•2008-2009: 56 teachers•2009-2010: 55 teachers•2010-2011: 63 teachers•2011-2012: 60 + α
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The ACT-ESL Training
II.) 3 classroom observations by your coach during the school year
III.) Teaching Demonstration Fair and Post-Seminar(4 hrs. February 23
and April 18)
I.) Summer Institute in June 2011
30 hrs. (6 hrs. x 5 days)
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Summer Institute Topics• Sheltered Instruction (SIOP)
• Academic language for students
• Cultural understanding
• Variables that impact ELLs’ academic success
• Content area reading and word study
• Assessment
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Teacher Benefits:• Instructional strategies and resources to help ALL
of your students, but crucial for ELLs.
• Professional development points (34 for training).
• Training stipend. ($24 x 34 hrs.= $816)
• Professional development opportunities such as presentations at local, state, and national levels. (Travel expenses + honorarium)
• Scholarships for action research ($300 each)16
Are you eligible for the ACT-ESL project?
• You are an endorsed teacher in math, science, English/language arts or social studies.
• You will be teaching a credit-bearing course in your endorsed area with (an) ELL student (s) where you have responsibility for developing content-area lesson plans.
• You are available for the summer institute, follow-up classroom applications, and a post-seminar.
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Comments from past participants: Most valuable topics for me…
• “cultural factors influencing learning – how to adapt lessons for ESL students”
• “better use of academic language in the classrooms”
• “methods and reasons to adapt instruction, activities, and the like in my classrooms”
• “to incorporate (deliberately) language instruction into content instruction”
• “SIOP lesson planning”
• “I learned how to teach more effectively, not just to ELLs but to all students.”
Are you available for these Summer Institute dates?
June 20-24, 2011at Manchester MS
(9:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.)
Lunch will be provided to the participants of summer institute.19
The goal of ACT-ESL is to help and support you as you advance your students!
Supporting teachers, helping students…because all learners matter!
Please contact us at actesl@vcu.edu804-827-2616
http://www.actesl.vcu.edu 20
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