Mar 29, 2024  
2014-2015 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDUC 519 - Meeting Needs of English Language Learners (ELL)

(3 credits)
This course will enable the candidate to demonstrate knowledge of the needs of English Language Learners as they are taught in the most inclusive environment possible. The course will emphasize that the students’ development of social, instructional, and academic language, a complex and long-term process, is the foundation for their success in school. The candidate will study the implications of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and the attention it gives to the needs of English Language Learners by requiring each state to develop English Language Proficiency Standards. The candidate will be able to adapt instruction and assessments in order to accommodate ELLs according to the Pennsylvania Standards in Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening and the National ESL Standards developed by TESOL (Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages) and WIDA (World Class Instruction and Assessment) Language Proficiency Standards. The candidate will plan ESL instruction that utilizes the grade level indicators developed by the State’s Guidebook, and PDE’s newly developed English Language Proficiency Standards, to target instructional objectives. The candidate will utilize various grade and age appropriate materials to instruct the ELLs, including textbooks, skill specific workbooks, picture dictionaries, computer programs, web-based programs, novels appropriate to the English Language Proficiency Level, and other available materials. Using the student’s first languages and cultures as the foundation for developing academic language proficiency, the candidate will bridge the ESL content standards to the following content areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. As needed.