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Assisting, Collaborating, and Training
ESL Secondary Content Teachers
Assisting, Collaborating,
and Training ESL
Content Teachers (ACT-ESL)
Hosted by VCU School of Education and
funded by the U.S. Department of Education
What is the ACT-ESL project?
The ACT-ESL Project at VCU is
designed to train content-area
teachers in methods which
promote ELLs’ academic
engagement and success.
How can I engage my ELLs in
academic lessons?
Topics of the Summer Institute
•Variables which affect ELLs’ academic
success
•Cultural understanding of teaching and
learning
•Language analysis of content and
adjustment
•Sheltered Instruction Observation
Protocol (SIOP)
•Content area reading
•Assessment
The ACT-ESL training cycle
1) Summer institute
30 hrs. (6 hrs. x 5 days)
2) Classroom application:
Peer coaching
(2 in Fall, 1 in Spring)
3) Post-seminar
(4 hrs. in April)
Benefits to you as teachers:
•Instructional strategies and resources to
help your students, particularly ELLs and
low-achieving students.
•Professional development points and a
stipend ($24 x 34 hrs.= $816).
•Professional development opportunities
such as presentations at local, state, and
national levels.
•Opportunity for academic credit.
Are you eligible for the ACT-ESL project?
• You are an endorsed teacher in math,
science, social studies, or
English/language arts.
•You will be teaching a credit-bearing
course in your endorsed area with (an)
ELL student (s).
•You are available for the summer
institute, follow-up classroom
applications, and a post-seminar.
Are you available for these Summer Institute dates?
June 21-25, 2010 at VCU
All teachers (Math, Science,
English/Language Arts, Social Studies)
**Lunch will be provided to the participants of summer
institute.
Comments from past participants:
Most valuable topics for me…
• “cultural factors influencing learning – how to
adapt lessons for ESL students”
•“better use of academic language in the
classrooms- ways this can be accomplished”
•“methods and reasons to adapt instruction,
activities, and the like in my classrooms”
•“to incorporate (deliberately) language instruction
into content instruction”
•“SIOP lesson planning”
•“I learned how to teach more effectively, not just to
ELLs but to all students.”
Assisting, Collaborating, and Training
ESL Secondary Content Teachers
The goal of ACT-ESL is to help
and support you as you advance
your students!
Please contact us at [email protected]
804-827-2616
http://www.actesl.vcu.edu