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Attend Chicago Metro AEYC's NEW Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Workshop

Develop your professional skills and advance your knowledge about your linguistically and culturally diverse students.

Saturday, April 28, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare

Agenda
8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Current demographics and Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners
The current demographic changes in the U.S. and Illinois are presented as a platform for understanding the increasing need for educators to better address the linguistic, academic, and socioemotional needs of English language learners and their families. Fundamental principles of second language acquisition and sociocultural paradigms are discussed within the context of language minority populations. Specific approaches that facilitate the integration of linguistically and culturally diverse learners will be presented. [Dr. Sonia Soltero]

10:30 Break

10:45 PANEL DISCUSSION

Screening and Assessment of Young English Language Learners
NAEYC’s position statement on the screening and assessment of young English language learners recommends that their needs, strengths, and progress should be assessed using methods that are developmentally appropriate, culturally and linguistically responsive, tied to their daily activities, inclusive of families and connected to sound decisions about teaching and learning. [Marta Moya-Leang]

Parent Involvement in Early Childhood Programs It is important as early child hood educators to recognize the essential role that parents play in their children’s education. Families come from different ethnic groups and speak different languages. Learn what teachers can do to create a friendly classroom environment to promote parents involvement and how to work with parents to help the overall educational development of their child.
[Flor Villanueva-Winter]

Including, Assisting, and Empowering All English Language
Learners (ELLs) Experience some of the highly effective techniques and strategies that are specifically designed for our ELLs in grade school and kindergarten. Structured oral language exercises, research-based literacy activities in L1 and L2, focused reading sessions, differentiated instructional techniques, adaptive first language support will be presented within a framework for organizing culturally and linguistically responsive classrooms. [Dr. Claudia Becker]

Effective curricular and Instructional Frameworks for English Language Learners
Best practices, instructional approaches, instructional materials, and culturally relevant curriculum are among the topics to be addressed. [Dr. Sonia Soltero]

12:15 Lunch

1:00 Focused Discussion groups

2:30 Closing Session

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Questions? Call Chicago Metro AEYC at: 312-427-5399 or visit us on the web at: www.chicagometroaeyc.org

Presented by Chicago Metro AEYC with generous sponsorship from Kaplan