English Language Learning

Welcome to our ELL PDA Resource Webpage!

Here you will find resources and materials that were highlighted during our meetings and webinars as well as related links and topics of interest. This is the best way for us to share the wealth of information that we have been generating for our Secondary Cohort. This site will begin as a repository for information, but we will strive to introduce some capacity for interaction and sharing in 2010. You will have access to the various documents and Power Points that were highlighted during our November forum in Alabaster. As you will probably notice, the ELL PDA information is contained within the central column only. The information in the margins relates to our Eastern Stream Center website (www.easternstream.org). Some of this information may be of interest to you, but it does not relate to our Alabama project.

Here you will find materials used during the webinars and meetings as well as related links and topics of interest. Please use this as an example for building your own web based resource.

Click on the links directly below and also at the bottom of the page in the list of attachments to access powerpoint files, word documents, and other resources.

Click here for the Culture and Awesome Parent Report Card powerpoint

http://www.everythingesl.net

everythingESL: The K-12 ESL resource from Judie Haynes

Judie Haynes is the author and co-author of five books on helping classroom teachers with their second language population: Getting Started With English Language Learners,Newcomer Program Grades K-2,Newcomer Program Grades 3-6, Classroom Teacher's ESL Survival Kit #1,and Classroom Teacher's ESL Survival Kit #2. She has also co-authored a chapter in TESOL's Integrating Standards into Classroom Practice. Judie is currently writing a column on elementary ESL entitled Circle Time for a TESOL magaine, Essential Teacher.

Judie has taught elementary ESL for 28 years; the last 22 in River Edge, New Jersey. Judie is an active member of NJTESOL/NJBE and is currently editor of the NJTESOL/NJBE Voices, an affiliate newsletter. She is also a past Chair of TESOL's Elementary Interest Section and has served on the TESOL Nominating Committee.

Judie presents workshops throughout New Jersey and has presented at TESOL every year for the past eighteen years. She has also presented keynote addresses at TESOL Affiliates AMTESOL, NYTESOL, TNTESOL, and the Rhode Island chapter of MATESOL.

Expert group urges attention to English-language learners in stimulus spending

For Immediate Release

March 20, 2009
Working Group on ELL Policy

CONTACT:

Kenji Hakuta, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education
Stanford University
hakuta@stanford.edu
650.862.2891

Diane August, Center for Applied Linguistics
daugust@msn.com
301.229.5077

Jennifer O’Day, American Institutes for Research
joday@air.org
202.262.4987

The full version of the report can be downloaded at: http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/ARRA

The authors discuss ways in which to integrate math and language teaching for English language learners. They offer strategies for modifications in the curricula and in the delivery of instruction. Authors advocate that by integrating math and language teaching, innovative courses can provide experiences that bridge gaps in literacy students' math knowledge, expand their communicative competence in English, and ultimately prepare them for success in future math coursework.