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Making Mathematics Accessible to English Learners

Date:December 2, 2009
Start Time: 10:30a.m. - 12:00pm PT

WestEd's SchoolsMovingUp website will feature another free webinar, "Making Mathematics Accessible to English Learners," on Wednesday, December 2, from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time).

What can teachers do to help English language learners in math class? In this webinar, Cathy Carroll, Senior Research Associate/Project Director in WestEd's Mathematics, Science, & Technology Program, and John Carr, Senior Research Associate in WestEd's Evaluation Research Program, will present an integrated approach to teaching mathematics in a mainstream classroom with English learners at different language levels as well as other students with special learning needs. They will discuss and give examples how to combine and embed proven strategies and tools for teaching diverse learners, and a widely accepted inquiry-based approach to teaching mathematics. Many of the strategies that scaffold learning are also the accommodations for English learners to show on tests what they have learned. Our "doable" approach promotes mathematical thinking and communication, and engages and supports all diverse learners, particularly English learners, in each lesson.

The webinar is geared to upper elementary, middle, and high school mathematics teachers who have had had limited preparation for teaching mathematics to English learners, their leaders in schools and districts, and university (mathematics) teacher education faculty. The material will be based on the presenter's bestselling book, Making Mathematics Accessible to English Learners: A Guidebook for Teachers.

REGISTRATION: To sign up for this event, please visit http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/webinars/ellmath2 and select "Attend this Webinar." You will then be prompted to login or register for free on the site as needed. If you plan to participate via the live webinar option, you will need to "Run the Wizard" to test your computer's capacity to support the webinar. We recommend you do this at least one day before the webinar. If you would prefer to participate via the live teleconference with presentation PPT/PDF, you can instead join the conference call and download the presentation PPT/PDF, which will be available the day before the webinar. Registered participants will receive an email notification when the presentation PPT/PDF is posted. The message will also contain further instructions for participating.

CONTACT: We look forward to your participation. For more information, contact Julie Duffield at jduffie@wested.org or 415.615.3213. For technical questions, contact Dan Wilson at dwilson@wested.org or 510.302.4265.

Webinar Archives

SchoolsMovingUp Webinar: English Learners and the Language Arts (Encore Presentation)

Presentation Date: August 20, 2009

Pamela Spycher, Director of English Learners and the Language Arts (ELLA) at WestEd, provides teacher leaders, principals, and district administrators with information on research-based instructional practices for teaching academic language to K-8 English learners and instituting school-wide systems for closing achievement gaps.

To view this archived event, please visit http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/webinars/ella2.