2008
K-12 ESL Conference
Session PowerPoint Presentations
Presentation #1: The Language-Rich Schoolhouse | Handout
Description: This session will expand upon the Keynote presentation and discuss the development of oral language as the foundation of literacy. Research finds that ‘comprehensible input’ and ‘oral language’ are fundamental to vocabulary acquisition, and thus, literacy. Participants will be exposed to thinking on incorporating more oral language into the classroom to develop the Language-Rich Schoolhouse. This session will cause raucous laughter and considerable thought.
Presenter: John De Mado, Author/Consultant
Session #2: Engage, Engage, Engage, Engage | Handout
Description: This dynamic session focuses on ways to educate content area teachers and techniques to create support and drive throughout the entire school for the ELL program. Program ideas, staff development topics and methods, and strategies for program development will be included. Additionally, research-based, concrete instructional strategies and methods will be discussed, explained, and illustrated. Participants will create goals and action plans to implement in their classrooms with students.
Presenter: Charlie Geier, MSD of Washington Township
Presentation #3: Aesthetically Speaking | Handout
Description: Why would a teacher use art to teach language? Art projects utilize multiple senses and allow students to develop speaking skills. In this interactive session, participants will be led through exercises that use various types of artwork to encourage exchange of ideas, discussion, and conversation while also promoting critical thinking, problem solving, and metacognitive analysis. These types of lessons allow teachers to focus on students’ learning style, language proficiency, cultural and educational background, and grade level.
Presenters: Becky Crosbie and Diane Carter - Indianapolis Public Schools
Presentation #4: Low Budget, High Passion ESL where Every Student Learns
Description: This session will provide an overview of ESL program development at Northwest Allen CS (NACS) and changes that have evolved as the program has grown. A panel of administrative and instructional team members and parents will discuss their roles. NCLB was the motivation for program development but NACS embraces its responsibility to provide educational opportunities to support all students as they work toward academic success. Presenters will answer questions from participants.
Presenters: Nancy Leininger & ESL Team - Northwest Allen County Schools
Presentation #5: Focusing on Teacher Pedagogy to Improve ELL Achievement | Handout
Description: This session focuses on how to provide high quality professional development for mainstream teachers. The session has three segments: first, video-anchored and data-rich case studies based on the five standards of effective pedagogy from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE); second, qualitative and quantitative data from a three-year grant using teacher coaching; and finally, participants will engage in activities to discuss tools needed to assess students and plan for instruction.
Presenter: Dr. Annela Teemant, IUPUI School of Education
L: K-12, F: program development, A: mainstream teachers, ESL staff & administrators
Presentation #6: Modify on the Fly II | Handout
Description: This session will take a look at academic modifications and assessment through the students’ eyes. It will feature a presentation created by students for teachers, as well as samples of classroom modifications that both students and teachers have found helpful at all proficiency levels both in advance of a lesson and ‘on the fly.’ This session is designed for any teacher with ELL students and will offer real life examples of what works and what doesn’t.
Presenters: Catherine Marchese, Jenny Noble-Kuchera, Julia Copeland, Colette Eno, & Hayley Piper - Monroe County CCS
Presentation #7: SIOP Lesson Plans for Secondary Classrooms
Description: This secondary session is presented by a cohort of content area teachers trained in the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model and an ENL Inclusion Coach. Presenters will explain how the SIOP model has been implemented at Ben Davis H.S., discuss growing pains and findings, and share the schools future SIOP plans. Presenters will discuss SIOP lesson plans and provide an activity simulation with participants. Participants will understand the benefits of a sheltered instruction classroom at the secondary level and feel ready to implement SIOP in their classrooms.
Presenters: Martha Sacks, Dusty Shannon, Andrea Hunley, Tom Meeker, & Lindsey Dunifon - MSD of Wayne Township
Presentation #9: Three Birds with One Stone: Incorporating ELP Standards, Vocabulary Mini-Lessons, and ESL Strategies for Comprehensible Content | Handout 1 - Handout 2 - Handout 3 - Handout 4 - Handout 5 - Handout 6- Handout 7 - Handout 8 - Handout 9 - Handout 10 - Handout 11 - Handout 12 - Handout 13 - Handout 14 - Handout 15 - Handout 16 - Handout 17 - Handout 18
Description: This session for elementary teachers and staff will provide strategies and sample lesson plans for incorporating the English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards and English/language arts Standards into instruction and a variety of strategies for increasing comprehensible input. Participants will be able to better support students by constructing and delivering standards-based, sheltered instruction.
Presenters: Susan Pearson, Diane Anderson, & Pat King - Indianapolis Public Schools
L: 3-5, F: sheltered instruction, A: mainstream teachers & ESL staff More handouts for this session will follow.
Presentation #10: Developing Schoolwide Cultural Competence
Description: This dynamic secondary session will engage participants in conversations about one school district’s professional development experience in Cultural Competence. Three ESL teachers will demonstrate the principles of conversation that can lead to the personal and professional transformation for educators. Participants will leave with implementation strategies and a process model for doing the work of developing and maintaining conversations that lead to a school creating more culturally responsible teaching and more culturally responsive practices.
Presenters: Darlene Fussle, Michelle C.S. Greene, & Erika Tran - MSD of Lawrence Township
Presentation #12: Adapting Assessments for ELLs at Various Levels of English Proficiency
Description: This practical session by the Director of ENL Professional Development Academy at Anderson University will focus on methods for grading ELLs and techniques for differentiating lesson plans and adapting/modifying content area classroom assessments for ELLs using the English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards. This session will use the SIOP model as a base for adapting a lesson plan with small group activity discussions.
Presenter: Donna Albrecht, Anderson University
Presentation #13: What Administrators Need to Know about English Language Learners | Handout 1 - Handout 2 - Handout 3
Description: Members of the Indiana ESL Task Force from urban, suburban, and rural districts and have served in a long-term capacity in creating quality programming for ESL students and families. The panel will share their expertise in the areas of Instructional Interventions, Student Achievement, Program Collaboration, Professional Development for staff, and Family Involvement. They will share their expertise and research in these areas and provide concrete suggestions for deployment.
Presenters: Session II: Trish Morita Mullaney, MSD of Lawrence Twp; Maritza Robles, South Bend CSC; Wendy Wildman-Long, Warsaw CS; Tom Good, Goshen CS; & Debbie Thomas, Bartholomew CSC | Session III: Marilee Updike, Indianapolis Public Schools; Peggy Dellahoussayé-Harrington, SC of Hammond; Sheila Ewing, MSD of Washington Twp; Sandy Madriaga, Evansville-Vanderburgh CS; and Angie Silver-Muñoz, New Albany-Floyd CS
Presentation #14: Linking LAS Links Data to Instruction by Using Technology
Description: LAS Links assessment data provide useful information not only for placement, but also for monitoring progress and identifying skill area(s) in need of instructional support. By using the analysis tools presented in this session, these tasks can be done with just a few clicks. This session is a demonstration of how to manipulate LAS Links assessment data using a dynamic report tool. The data can be used for various instructional purposes such as monitoring annual progress or identifying specific focus areas for curriculum and instruction. Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel is helpful for this session.
Presenter: Choonhyun Jeon, Monroe County CCS
Presentation #15: Addressing Higher Level Thinking at the Lowest Levels of English Proficiency: I’m Sorry, but You Can’t Think Yet | Handout 1 - Handout 2 - Handout 3
Description: ELLs must attain English language proficiency and content knowledge as quickly as possible so interventions to address content and concept development at the earliest proficiency levels are critical. This interactive session will address this emerging challenge by identifying how English language proficiency should not be a primary obstacle to introducing and working with higher order thinking and content tasks. The session will recommend strategies to integrate higher order thinking strategies at the earliest stages of language learning.
Presenter: Dennis Terdy, Author/Consultant
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