- Beginning Vocabulary and Literacy Instruction in the ESL Classroom
- General Education Classroom Accommodations for ELLs That Really Work
- Back Door Teaching
The first session is the same basic presentation that I gave at MABE in May (use the link to check out my post from May 9th). I've updated it and added a few things, but it is essentially the same. I'm excited to have the opportunity to share my curriculum with another group of great educators and administrators.
The second session is exactly what it sounds like (the conference titles are long, but descriptive). I'm going to be sharing five quick and two important accommodations for English language learners in the general education classroom. The list was originally put together as a quick presentation for staff meeting one year and I've just expanded on that a bit. The slides are below if you are interested.
The third session is the one that is most "out of the box" (read here: not research based) and I feel the least prepared for. Back door teaching, (aka: sneak attack teaching) is something that I use a lot, but am having trouble putting into words and providing concrete examples. The basic idea is to share ways to embed instruction into every day events and/or lessons where the skill you are back door teaching is not the focus of the objective. This is actually an un-conference session and participants are supposed to bring their own ideas with them, so I'm not supposed to have enough material for the full 75 minutes. My responsibility is to start the session off by sharing some ideas and then facilitate others sharing their own thoughts. I have a few ideas, but would like to have others hanging out in the background (just in case there's not a lot of group participation). I've put my slides below for you to see what I have thus far, if anyone else has some good ideas, I'd love to hear them!
general_education_accommodations_that_work.ppsx |
back_door_teaching.ppsx |