Sentences with phrase «language needs of diverse learners»

Scaffold direct instruction to increase comprehensible input and meet the literacy and language needs of diverse learners.

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In one of her projects, Luk works with a group of ELL directors to help them understand the diverse needs of their language learners and to find better ways to engage their parents.

Diverse needs: Diverse needs might include learner variability; language skills; technology and internet access levels outside of school; cultural specificity and challenges at home such as poverty, homelessness or instability.

additional tools, professional development and resources for teachers to address the needs of diverse learners, including students with disabilities and English language learners;

Meeting the diverse needs of English language learners is a key challenge for administrators and classroom teachers.

I was encouraged this week to learn that ESSA — the new American education law — that replaced NCLB includes language that opens the door beyond academic testing to include «multiple measures of student learning and progress, along with other indicators of student success...» Education Week notes that sprinkled throughout the law are references to an instructional strategy that has enormous potential for reaching learners with diverse needs.

Our new 6 +1 Trait Writing institute addresses one of the greatest challenges teachers face today: how to scaffold instruction for diverse learners — including English language learners, students with special needs and gifted and talented students — so that all students in your classroom become stronger, more confident writers.

ASCD invites you to participate in an educator - driven discussion on how school systems and communities can best meet the diverse needs of the modern learner, with a particular emphasis on addressing student equity, race, poverty, gender communities, mental health, language, and technology.

In 2011, we completed an 8 - month contract for the Winnsboro, Louisiana, school system to support math and language arts teachers in using data, tiered interventions, and evidence - based strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners through Response to Intervention.

This program will provide you with the knowledge and classroom skills needed to meet the diverse language and academic needs of these learners.

The third course, coupled with a fourth course on the special needs of linguistically diverse learners, offered in the second semester, formally introduced the teachers to SFL for language education focusing on the functions of language in linguistic resources for meaning through application.

As the number of dual language learners (DLLs) in early care and education (ECE) programs increases, it is critical to examine whether the quality of practices in these settings reflect the needs of the diverse groups of children being served.