WIDA offers on — site training workshops for Alternate ACCESS for ELLs for Special Education and
ELL teachers involved in administering the Alternate ACCESS for ELLs.
Not exact matches
Co-teaching
involves having a general education
teacher and special service provider (e.g., special education
teacher, Title I
teacher,
ELL specialist, speech / language pathologist) sharing in the planning, instruction, and assessment to ensure student success.
Further, as part of the literacy team, which included three language arts
teachers and two ELD
teachers, Sarah was deeply
involved in decision making about reading and writing instruction and assessment, making sure that her colleagues were attentive to distinct needs of
ELLs in these areas.
As
teacher educators and researchers, we have had many opportunities to look closely at schools and districts that are implementing meaningful supports for
ELL instruction, and we've found that effective
teacher leadership in this area tends to
involve two strategies in particular, which we illustrate with a pair of examples below.
We want to be
involved with school administrators and
teachers as they find ways to impact the engagement and achievement of
ELL students.