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Educators
Invited to Institute on Best Programs and Practices for Teaching English Language Learners
Each school day, students from diverse linguistic backgrounds enter American schools at every grade level, confronting the dual challenge of learning English while acquiring academic skills and knowledge. Helping educators meet this need is the goal of "Teaching English Language Learners: Effective Programs and Practices". This dynamic three-day summer institute will give teachers, principals, superintendents and policymakers the opportunity to learn, share and practice research-based strategies for supporting the education of English language learners.
Through interactive workshops, panel presentations, facilitated educator dialogues and hands-on multimedia technology, participants will learn how to:
- select and implement bilingual programs that fit school/district needs
- use proven approaches for teaching subjects at various grade levels
- implement the Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy, teaching strategies distilled from thirty years of education research
- access and use resources through the National Clearinghouse on Bilingual Education as well as other techniques. Collaboration and dialogue between participants will be encouraged through an innovative ‘town hall’ style plenary session, moderated by Gil Garcia, a US Dept. of Education research analyst.
Jointly sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Storrs; the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE); and the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), the institute is June 27-29, 2000 at UConn’s newest conference facilities on the pastoral Storrs campus. Presenters include practitioners, administrators and researchers, including:
- Donna Christian (President, CAL)
- Hernan LaFontaine (co-founder, National Association for Bilingual Education)
- Liliana Minaya-Rowe (Professor, Bilingual Bicultural Program, UConn)
- Noni Reis (Principal, Starlight Elementary School, Calif.)
- Roland Tharp (Director, CREDE)
