Colorado ELL Professional Development Corner

Course Description: This course will discuss how to engage families of students at your school in a culturally responsive fashion. This includes looking at internal and external bias and understanding how to engage families of different cultures and languages and creating a welcoming environment for all families.

This course includes:

• Video: 1 hour 42 minutes - must be viewed in full
• 2.5 hour PD certificate aligned to this course
• ELL Standard 5.09(1).A, 5.12(1).A
  

Intended Audience: Content area teachers, classroom teachers, coaches, co-teaching teams, grade level teams, and school teams.

Course Description: This course will discuss what is equity and how we work towards equality in the classroom.  This includes looking at internal and external bias when working in a classroom. 

This course includes:

• Video: 2 hour 30 minutes - must be viewed in full
• 3.5 hour PD certificate aligned to this course
• ELL Standard 5.10(2).B, 5.12(1).A
  

Intended Audience: Content area teachers, classroom teachers, coaches, co-teaching teams, grade level teams, and school teams.

Course Description: This course will go into detail how (CLDE) student expectations are tied to student success.  This includes understanding perceptions and using models of success to assist in student achievement.

This course includes:

• Video: 1 hour 50 minutes - must be viewed in full
• 3 hour PD certificate aligned to this course
• ELL Standard 5.09(1).A, 5.12(2).B
  

Intended Audience: Content area teachers, classroom teachers, coaches, co-teaching teams, grade level teams, and school teams.

Course Description: This course will discuss how to engage students in their language(s) in order to assist students in understanding and accessing content in the classroom.

This course includes:

• Video: 1 hour 56 minutes - must be viewed in full
• 3 hour PD certificate aligned to this course
• English Learner PD Quality Standard II Element A 0.75 hr
• English Learner PD Quality Standard III Elements A 1.5 hrs
• English Learner PD Quality Standard III Elements B 0.75 hr

Intended Audience: Content area teachers, classroom teachers, coaches, co-teaching teams, grade level teams, and school teams.

Course Description: This session will go into detail in the process in how students are identified as an English Learners (EL) at the school level, requirements of notification, the process of screening for ELs (including WIDA and W-APT), the connection to the CDE Data Pipeline, and the steps of progression for language proficiency.

This course includes:

• Video: 30 minutes - must be viewed in full
  
• 1.5 hour PD certificate aligned to this course
• ELL Standard 5.09(2).B, 5.12.B
  

Intended Audience: Content area teachers, classroom teachers, coaches, co-teaching teams, grade level teams, and school teams.

Course Description: This course will discuss how to use assessments (formative) in order to gauge students' language proficiency and how to incorporate these assessments in classwork and in everyday activities to foster language growth and acquisition. 

This course includes:

• Video: 1 hour 46 minutes - must be viewed in full
• 2.75 hour PD certificate aligned to this course

• 5.09(2).B, 5.12(1).A
  

  
  

Intended Audience: Content area teachers, classroom teachers, coaches, co-teaching teams, grade level teams, and school teams.

Course Description: This course will discuss trauma and the affect it has on children in a learning environment.  How the effects of trauma are seen in the classroom and how they affect the child physically and psychologically (especially for immigrant students). Lastly, how you can perform self care in the face of trauma and stress.

This course includes:

• Video: 1 hour 51 minutes - must be viewed in full
• 2.75 hour PD certificate aligned to this course
• ELL Standard 5.09(1).A