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A comprehensive professional development program for educators of English Learners to meet key performance outcomes:

1. Effective and consistent standards-based differentiated ELD instruction that ensures high academic achievement for all English Learners.
2. Essential knowledge base, skills and processes that enables teachers and administrators to develop and implement a superior classroom and school-wide ELD program.
3. Leadership and capacity-building that strengthen the school community to sustain and academically rigorous ELD program.

CLMER Standard-Based Differentiated ELD Instruction Professional Development includes up to two years of modules for lasting change and improvements:

YEAR ONE

• Completion of an ELD Professional Development Needs Assessment
• Understanding of Language Development Processes and Instructional Implications
• Use of ELD Standards as Pathways to Academic Achievement
• Matching Instructional Strategies to English Learners’ Assessed ELD levels
• Clustering ELD and ELA Standards and Designing Lessons across ELD Proficiency Levels
• Use of Flexible Grouping to Organize Differentiated ELD Instruction
• Formal and Informal Assessment to inform Curricular Planning and Instruction
• Thematic Unit Planning and Teaching
• Classroom Observations, Modeling of Practices and Mentor Coaching
• Development of a School-Wide ELD Program Action Plan

YEAR TWO

• Implementation of a School-Wide ELD Program Action Plan
• Understanding of Authentic Performance-Based Assessment through Student Work
• Calibration and Application of Standards-Based Assessment
• Vertical and Horizontal Articulation of Assessments
• Integration and Alignment of ELD and ELA Standards and Thematic Teaching
• Development and Implementation of Thematic ELD Units
• On-site ELD Instruction Modeling and Coaching

Standards-Based Differentiated ELD Instruction

CLMER’s professional development program enables teachers to provide appropriate differentiated ELD instruction at students’ assessed language proficiency levels in all types of classroom situations:

• Elementary
• Secondary
• Mainstream
• SEI
• ESL
• Bilingual
• Two-Way Immersion

CLMER professional development specialists provide on-site coaching and modeling to the teacher participants and facilitate peer coaching among the teacher participants.

Participants produce and implement a school-wide ELD program action plan.

Standards-Bases Differentiated ELD Instruction

Professional Development for Teachers of English Learners

Please contact the Center for Language Minority Education and Research at California State University of Long Beach:

• To facilitate a needs assessment to customize the ELD Instruction Professional Development Program for your school or district.
• To arrange a presentation to your school site council, school board, administrators, or teaching staff.
• For further professional development needs related to ELD instruction.

Contact person: Peggy Morrison
Main: (562) 985-5806 Fax: (562) 985-4528
Email: peggy@sasquatch.com