A Perfect Match: Using Data and Standards to Drive ELL Program Design
Registration for the summer 2011 workshop series entitled A Perfect Match: Using Data and Standards to Drive Program Design will be opening shortly. This three part (six day) series is intended to provide sustained professional development to teams of teachers and administrators interested in participating in a process to improve their district’s language education programs for English language learners (ELLs).
Professional staff from the Illinois Resource Center (IRC) and the World Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium experts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison will provide engaging and dynamic opportunities for team participants to mine and analyze data. A structured framework will be applied to the data with the goal of crafting an exemplary program for ELLs while establishing a process for addressing curricular and instructional implications. Team participants will acquire the tools, skills and strategies necessary to promote educational gains through quality programming for ELLs.
A commitment on the part of the district to support school - or district wide team participation in the entire series is critical for implementing these standards-based educational services. Team sizes range from a minimum of three participants to a maximum of eight participants. Preliminary tasks will be assigned to registered team participants to be completed prior to the first session. Continuing professional development units (CPDUs) are available for this workshop series.
Dates are set for the summer workshop series: July 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, 2011.
Registration forms, with intended team members listed and complete payment, is due by Thursday, April 21, 2011.
For additional information, contact Barbara Marler at the IRC at 224-366-8536 or at bmarler@cntrmail.org
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