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Effectively Advocating for English Learners (ELs)
Course Overview Course Overview
Effectively Advocating for English Learners (ELs)
Are you satisfied with your English learners’ (ELs’) equitable learning opportunities and parent involvement in your school? Framed around the book Advocating for English Learners by Diane Staehr Fenner, this six-week guided online course is designed to help you explore the topics in a deeper way and to support you in applying what you learn to your own context.
Learning Objectives Learning Objectives
Over the three course components, you will:
- Define advocacy and describe advocacy issues for ELs
- Identify and use strategies to advocate for ELs and their families
- Apply strategies for creating a school climate that supports a shared sense of responsibility for ELs
- Set goals to address an EL advocacy issue in your context
Course Amenities Course Amenities
- Three self-paced components framed around Diane Staehr Fenner’s bestselling book Advocating for English Learners
- Access to an online Professional Learning Community for advocacy course discussion
- Guiding and reflective questions in a note-taking guide
- Activities to apply EL advocacy course content to case studies and participants’ own contexts
- A chance to create and receive feedback on an EL advocacy plan for participants to implement in their schools
- Opportunities for participants to share resources
- Purchase of Advocating for English Learners: A Guide for Educators is strongly recommended
Certificate Hours
Upon course completion, participants will earn a certificate for (12) hours of professional development.
Bonus hours: Participants can earn two additional PD hours by completing optional coursework
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