Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in the ELL Content Classroom Success: A Toolkit for Teachers, Arizona State University

Lesson planning with an emphasis on English learners

Course 1

17 hours
4.7 (195 ratings)

What will you learn?

In this course, you will learn how to design lesson plans that meet the needs of ELL students and their language levels through an analysis of content requirements and cognitive demands.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to:

• Present theories of second language acquisition in the context of lesson planning
• Assess your students’ language needs using BICS and CALP
• Identify content-specific vocabulary, grammatical structures, and linguistic functions required for success in your classroom
• Write language learning outcomes that are aligned with your students’ language and cognitive skills and the institution’s standards
• Adapt a lesson plan that achieves the learning outcomes detailed in the lesson objectives
• Modify materials to support ELL students’ access to content
• Use a wide variety of graphic organizational templates and language frameworks to support ELL students’ access to content
• Develop types of activities that are appropriate for the cognitive and linguistic abilities of ELL students
• Integrate community and culture into lesson planning

Achievement assessment with an emphasis on English learners

Course 2

21 hours
4.5 (92 ratings)

What will you learn?

In this course, you will learn how to design assessments that are appropriate for the needs of ELL students and their language level.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to:

• Present theories of authentic assessment in the context of second language learners.
• Design forms of assessment that integrate language and content objectives
• Design summative assessment types that integrate language and content objectives
• Incorporate project-based and task-based assignments as assessment tools for ELLs
• Design ratings tailored to your language and subject goals
• Implement the use of ratings, for both language and content, in your ELLs’ work.
• Support your ELLs as they take standardized tests

Engaging ELL students and their families in school and community

Course 3

19 hours
4.6 (63 ratings)

What will you learn?

In this course, you will learn how to improve the appropriate and effective engagement of ELL students and their families in school and the community.

Upon completion of the course you will be able to:

• Defining the culture of ELL students in K-12 classrooms across the United States
• Recognize the influence of culture on learning and formal education
• Assess the school’s involvement with ELL students and their families
• Incorporate culturally sensitive techniques to teach ELL students in the classroom and at school.
• Implement strategies for engaging families of ELL students in the school and the wider community
• Design a plan for engaging ELL students and their families in your school
• Create a checklist of resources in the school and community for engaging ELL students and their families

Learning Success in the Public Classroom: Final Project

Course 4

15 hours
4.7 (12 ratings)

What will you learn?

In this final project, you will be asked to apply the principles learned during the internship, and create your own toolbox designed for ELL students.

This toolbox will include:

• Lesson plan with notes
• Customized materials
• Formative assessments and summary schemes
• Explanation of the lesson plan and materials
• Action Plan for Engagement and Explanations

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Design a lesson plan with attention to the needs of ELL students
• Create appropriate adapted materials to support ELL students
• Create formative assessments and summative summaries to measure both content achievement and language development according to your lesson plan’s learning and language objectives
• Justify your choice of methodologies
• Create and implement an action plan tailored to the scope of your teaching