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.
Using formative assessment to monitor language proficiency: Strategies for incorporating formative assessment into instructional programs for English learners are explored in this Aiming High Brief (Jan/Feb 2010)
Additional Resource:
Formative Assessment Recording Tool (pdf)
Talking to the parents of English-language learners: This Aiming High Brief showcases the School Talk radio show (community-sponsored Spanish-language broadcasts focused on education) and highlights the need to reach out to Latino parents. (Nov 2009) Learn more and access program excerpts.
Structuring language instruction to advance stalled English learners: EL consultant Kevin Clark says that focusing ELD instruction on the five components of language will help students who plateau at the intermediate level (Sept 2009)
Developing and delivering lessons with overt language objectives: This Aiming High Brief is accompanied by a video showing a kindergarten lesson developed and taught with clear language objectives. (Jan/Feb 2009)
Grade 5 SDAIE lesson with overt language objectives: 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)
School and classroom structures for comprehensive English Language Development instruction (Oct 2008)
Archive
Aiming High Briefs, as PDF documents
Using formative assessment to monitor language proficiency (Jan/Feb 2010)
Talking to 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 comprehensive ELD (Oct 2008)
Using Research to Improve EL Achievement (Dec 2007)
Newcomer Programs (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 (April 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 (April 2005)
AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination (March 2005)
Thinking Maps: Strategy-Based Learning (Feb 2005)
Role of Language in Academic Development (Jan 2005)
Algebra Academy for English Learners
Algebra 1 Summer Academy: The Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce organized a three-week summer algebra academy for 30 English-language learners entering ninth grade (Aug 2008)
Dual Immersion
Award Winner: K-8 Dual Immersion, Sonoma Valley
Native English and Spanish speaking students are educated to become bilingual, bi-literate global citizens (Mar 2009)
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