Graduate Course Description

Overview

This course equips PreK-12 educators with the essential knowledge and skills to design standards-based objectives, monitor and assess student progress and achievement, and design and deliver research-based instruction that meets the academic and social needs of English Language Learners.

Course Objectives:
Course objectives are listed below in accordance with the Arizona State Department of Education requirements for earning a Structured English Immersion (SEI) certificate. All readings, assignments, and activities in this training are designed to provide participants with opportunities to acquire, clarify, add to, and utilize the knowledge, skills, and understandings related to the objectives established by the State of Arizona as related to this certificate.
See Curricular Framework for Provisional Structured English Immersion (SEI) Endorsement Training (45 Hours/Augmented).

Course Delivery:
This course will be designed using online and face-to-face models. All activities and experiential learning will relate to content and grade level specifics. This includes early childhood through 12th grade, all content areas, and special education.

Course Timeline:
The course is a 45-clock hour training that can be delivered in a face-to-face model, online model, or a blended model that consists of some face-to-face and some online. Therefore, the training can be customized to fit the specific needs of the district. The flex hours provided in the SEI Curricular Framework were added to the Strategies Objectives section (9 hours).

Required Textbook or Specially Designed Participant Manual using the Following:
Herrell, A. and Jordan, M. (2004) Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners. (2nd edition). Pearson Education, Inc.

Supplemental Materials:
Ariza, Eileen N. Whelan (2006). Not for ESOL Teachers: What Every Classroom Teacher Needs to Know About the Linguistically, Culturally, and Ethnically Diverse Student. Allyn & Bacon.
Echevarria, J. & Graves, A. (1998). Sheltered Content Instruction: Teaching English-Language Learners with Diverse Abilities. (2nd Edition) Allyn & Bacon.
Echevarria, Vogt & Short (2000). Making Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners, The SIOP Model. (2nd Edition) Allyn & Bacon.
Robins, K.N., Lindsey, R.B., Lindsey, D.B., & Terrell, R.D.(2002). Culturally Proficient Instruction: A Guide for People Who Teach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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