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This course is Part Two of a three-part course intending to help teachers to set up a classroom in which students are developing content, academic language, and key interpersonal communication skills at the same time.


About This Course

Each of the courses includes a key concept and objectives page, instructional and classroom videos, suggested readings and resources, and an assignment. The first course, “Creating a Culture of Conversation,” helps you set up a foundation for an entire year of rich conversation. The key is to remember that students need to see the value of conversation; for many of them, it will be a radical new way of learning.

This second course, “Creating Effective Conversation Prompts & Tasks,” covers ways to create effective prompts for conversations, as well as suggestions for setting up tasks that prepare students to have constructive conversations across the disciplines.

The assignments in this short course are meant to be thought-provoking, yet not time-consuming. They are meant to help you extend and reflect on the ideas presented in the readings, screencasts, and classroom videos. Assignment 2 in course 2 asks you to design powerful prompts and tasks for the first few weeks of school.

*In order to apply for a CEU or a PD Unit, teachers have to complete all 3 courses in this series: ELL511, ELL512, and ELL513.

 
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WAYS TO TAKE THIS COURSE

Simply Audit this Course

Can't commit to all of the lectures, assignments, and tests? Audit this course and have complete access to all of the course material, tests, people, portfolios, and the online discussion forum. You decide what and how much you want to do.

Try for a Certificate

Looking to test your mettle? Participate in all of the course's activities (we use the honor code around here) and if your work meets the 85% requirements, you'll receive a personalized certificate to showcase your achievement. You can also apply for course credit (if desired).


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Understanding Language Initiative


Understanding Language's vision is to increase college, career, and community readiness for all students—especially English language learners (ELLs)—by transforming the quality of their educational experiences. When language and content instruction are successfully intertwined, they work synergistically and powerfully to improve student learning. Accordingly, the organization's mission is to support educators and policymakers in transforming systems to advance equity for ELLs by illuminating the symbiotic ways students learn language and academic content. Housed at Stanford University and led by the nation's leading English language learning and content area experts, Understanding Language is uniquely positioned with the practitioner and research expertise, knowledge, relationships and partnerships to help educators successfully teach language and content together.
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Course Code: ELL512
Course Release: Jun 01, 2018
Estimated Effort: 5 Hours

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