This eWorkshop is suitable for all teachers in Grades 2-8. It'll begin on January 8th (Monday) and it'll last 13 weeks. The first week will be considered as the on-boarding week, so participants can get ready for the eWorkshop, and the first unit of the eWorkshop will start the following week. The eWorkshop has 6 units, with each unit requiring ~3 hours of a participants' time. Participants will work in groups of 5-6 people collaboratively and will have 2 weeks to complete each unit. Therefore, the entire eWorkshop will be ~18 hours of Professional Development (documented with a certificate for those who complete it) and will finish in early April. For those who wish to have their eWorkshop participation count towards graduate level credit will also have the opportunity to take a 1 credit class building off the work of the eWorkshop at UNL.
Liz Mahon is the author of this eWorkshop, and she developed it to help you consider reading supports for bilingual students. Specifically, this eWorkshop explores reading supports that are language rich and that connect literacy with language development.
The eWorkshop was designed to answer the following essential question:
Essential Question: How can I support bilingual students who are struggling with reading in English?
The each of the six units in the eWorkshop were designed around the following guiding questions:
Unit 1: What is different about teaching reading in English to bilingual students
Unit 2: How can I use co-constructed texts to help my bilingual learners read texts with confidence?
Unit 3: How can Shared Reading help bilingual learners read and comprehend texts in English?
Unit 4: How do patterned texts help bilingual learners read and produce sophisticated, fluent text?
Unit 5: How can I help my bilingual learners develop a deep curiosity for the way language works?
Unit 6: Answer the Essential Question
You can download here the eWorkshop's flyer:
https://cehs.unl.edu/tlte/ICMEE/Flyers/Reading%20Supports%20for%20Multilingual%20Students.pdf
If you would like to be a participant in this eWorkshop, please contact Araceli Lobato (araceli.ld@huskers.unl.edu). The first 20 people who register for this eWorkshop will qualify for a stipend of $200 for completing the eWorkshop along with the surveys in the first and final steps of the eWorkshop.
More details at: https://cehs.unl.edu/icmee/frequently-asked-questions/