Calgary Regional Consortium
Language Acquisition through Content Instruction – IN PERSON Presented By
Dr. Kathy Salmon
Series Sessions
Date:
Friday, September 20, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location
FFCA High School
2119 Mac Kay Rd. NW, Calgary, AB
Target Audience
K- 12 Administrators, Instructional Leaders, Support Staff and Teachers are encouraged to attend.
Every day, every class counts in the quest to acquire language proficiency: all teachers are teachers of EAL learners. Teachers need a variety of strategies to support EAL learners at different proficiency levels (beginning to advanced) in inclusive learning environments. In this session participants will learn how to:
• Use information gleaned through assessing EAL learners’ proficiency levels on the benchmarks to inform instruction.
• Identify vocabulary and language structures related to the curricular content they are teaching (core, fine arts, PE/Wellness, and complimentary).
• Plan for explicit teaching language within their instructional cycle (listening, speaking, reading, and writing).
• Select from a variety of high impact vocabulary instruction strategies to explicitly teach language in context.
• Use sentence starters, sentence frames, and mentor texts to support spoken and written production of language in context.Quality Standards This session addresses the following TQS competencies:
• Engaging in Career-Long Learning
• Establishing Inclusive Learning EnvironmentsThis session addresses the following LQS competencies:
• Leading a Learning Community
• Providing Instructional Leadership#J-18808-Ljbffr