Aiming High Resource Briefs
The Aiming High Briefs focus on strategies for improving instruction for English Learners and provide resources for implementation and further study.
Monitoring Language Proficiency | Jan-Feb 2010
Formative assessment strategies in instructional programs for English learners are explored in this Aiming High Brief.
Additional Resource:
Formative Assessment Recording Tool (pdf)
Structuring Language Instruction | Sept 2009
EL consultant Kevin Clark says that focusing ELD instruction on the five components of language will help students who plateau at the intermediate level.
Developing Language Objectives | Jan-Feb 2009
This Aiming High Brief on developing language objectives is accompanied by a video showing a kindergarten ELD lesson developed and taught with overt language goals.
Grade 5 SDAIE lesson
Here is a second video showing a lesson taught following the lesson planning strategy outlined in the Aiming High Brief.
Additional Resources:
Sample ELD Lesson Plan: Kindergarten (pdf)
Sample SDAIE Lesson Plan: Grade 5, Science (pdf)
Archive
Aiming High Briefs, as PDF documents
Using Formative Assessment to Monitor Language Proficiency | Jan-Feb 2010
School Talk: Communicating with the Parents of English Learners | Nov 2009
Structuring Language Instruction for Stalled English Learners | Sept 2009
Developing & Delivering Lessons with Overt Language Objectives | Jan-Feb 2009
School & Classroom Structures for ELD | Oct 2008
Using Research to Improve EL Achievement | Dec 2007
Is it Time for a Newcomer Program? | May 2007
Structuring Effective ELD Instruction, Tonya Ward Singer | May 2007
Deconstructing Language, Vanessa Girard & Pam Spycher | Mar 2007
Effective Instruction for English Learners, Margarita Calderón | Oct 2006
Making Mathematics Accessible to English Learners | Apr 2006
Providing Language Instruction, Susana Dutro | Jan 2006
Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Kate Kinsella | Nov 2005
Preparing for Effective Vocabulary Instruction, Kate Kinsella | Oct 2005
Designs for Learning: The Story of Success | Apr 2005
AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination | Mar 2005
Thinking Maps: Strategy-Based Learning | Feb 2005
Role of Language in Academic Development | Jan 2005
Dual Immersion
K-8 Dual Immersion, Sonoma Valley | May 2009
English and Spanish speaking students are educated to become bilingual, bi-literate citizens in this award-winning program.
