This archived webinar was sponsored by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center at WestEd, in collaboration with the California Teachers Association and the California Department of Education.
Structuring opportunities for students to participate in quality and sustained interactions, where they engage in rigorous back-and-forth discussions about a historical topic in a virtual environment, can present some challenges. One approach to help teachers make lessons more accessible to English Learners is integrating the use of carefully selected multimodal texts such as historical maps, photographs, and video into the design of lessons.
This archived webinar helps deepen teachers’ understanding of the development of oral language for English Learners and provides some strategies that can be applied to distance learning environments.
The following topics were addressed in this session:
- Introduction to oral language development and its importance for English Learners.
- How to enable oral language development in a distance learning environment?
- What resources support quality interactions for English Learners?
- Using multimodal texts to invite interactions.
This is the eighth of a 13-part webinar series designed to support English Learners in distance learning settings.
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