iTeachELLs Teacher Quality Partnership Grant

iTeachELLs Teacher Quality Partnership Grant
The iTeachELLs project prepares educators to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students. iTeachELLs is a $10+ million grant which was awarded in 2014 and runs through 2020.

Modules
Research
ELL Lesson Plans
PBELL Lesson Plans
PD Resources

Modules

This suite of modules highlights why teachers need to rethink the role of language in instruction and explores ways to modify lessons to address the needs of ELL students. An introduction to the suite is provided in this
Modules Overview

ELLs and Disciplinary Discourse

Teachers need to adapt lesson plans to ensure all students understand the content.

Metacognitive / Metalanguage

ELLs need to understand words and meanings in order to grasp content.

Content Language Objective

Teachers must create lessons that not only present content but also teach the language needed.

Primary Language Support

It is important to treat a student's native language as a resource rather than a hindrance.

Assessment

Standardized tests aren't the most effective way to gauge ELLs' knowledge or abilities.

PBL into PBELL

Students should work collaboratively to research a meaningful problem and develop solutions.

Research

	The Use of a Digital Problem-Based Learning Module in Science Methods Courses (2019) A free, online PBL module entitled “Design a Problem-Based Learning Experience” was developed for preservice and inservice teachers. This article describes how the module is used in preserve teacher science methods courses, experiences before and after the module use, and the perceptions of sixty-two teacher candidates (TCs) after module completion. Read more
	Demolishing Traditional Approaches to Science Instruction (2018) Using Problem-Based Enhanced Language Learning to teach students how to engage in scientific discourse. Read more
	Priming your Environment for Growth through a Collaborative Model of Instruction. (2018) To better prepare the next generation of teachers, we are examining the influence of instructional coaching at the university level. Read more
	Bears in a boat: Science content and language development through a problem-based learning experience (2018) Problem-based learning — introducing a problem before students have learned how to solve it — pairs well with language in the writers' approach, Problem-Based Enhanced-Language Learning. Read more
	Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning (May 2017) Teachers need to be able to design and implement problem-based learning experiences to help students master the content and the processes in new mathematics and science education standards. Read more
	Problem-Based Enhanced Language Learning Recent discussions of educational reform and accountability have centered on the concepts of student engagement and standards-based instruction. One of the most promising approaches to addressing these challenges is problem-based learning. Read more
	Working Together to Prepare Teachers of Science and Language (2016) This qualitative study examines the change in a preserve program as faculty members systematically work together to change the culture of a college to one in which everyone assists future teachers to work with ELLs. Read more

Enhanced Language Learning Lesson Plans

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English Language Arts and Mathematics as well as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) require that English Language Learners meet rigorous, grade level academic standards. The following principles are meant to guide teachers, coaches, ELL specialists, curriculum leaders, school principals, and district administrators as they work to develop CCSS-aligned instruction for ELLs.

These principles are applicable to any type of instruction regardless of grade, proficiency level, or program type. No single principle should be considered more important than any other. All principles should be incorporated into the planning and delivery of every lesson or unit of instruction.

Stanford Graduate School of Education. (2013). Six Key Principles for ELL Instruction. Understanding Language. Retrieved from

http://ell.stanford.edu/content/six-key-principles-ell-instruction

Elementary School

Grades 1 2 ELA Structured Discussions Asking and Answering Questions

1 2 Library Sequencing Parts of a Book Table of Contents

1st 3rd Social Studies Inquiry Creating Branching Questions to Guide the Research for my Passion Project

1st ELA Speaking and Listening Context Clues

1st Math Measurement Compare

1st Math Place Value Compare Contrast

1st Science Classifying Clouds

1st Science Compare Contrast Healthy Habits

1st Science Sequencing Ordering Life Cycle of a Frog

1st Writing Sequence of events

2nd Grade Math Permimeter

2nd Math Coins Identification

2nd Math problem solving money

3rd Math Classification with Justification Fraction Introduction

3rd Math Justification Justifying Answers in Math

3rd Math Justifying Your Answers

3rd Math Vocabulary Fractions

4th ELA Compare Contrast

4th Math Classifying with Justification Simplest Form

5 6 ELD Social Studies Comparing and Contrasting the Early English Settlements

5th Math Classifying Quadrilaterals into a Hierarchy

5th Science Classifying

5th Social Studies Analyzing how the Constitution was established in the USA

5th Social Studies Comparing and Contrasting the British army and the Continental Army

Kindergarten ELA

Kindergarten Math Compare and Contrast

Kindergarten Math Compare numbers

Kindergarten Science Classifying Living and Nonliving

Kindergarten Social Studies US Symbols

US symbols The Statue of Liberty ELL Lesson plan.docx

4th Writing Dictado Teacher Created

6th ELA Multiple Meaning Words Teacher Created

1st Economics ELD Sorting Classifying Needs and Wants

1st Social Studies Compare and Contrast George Washington and Abraham Lincoln

3rd ELA Character Actions Inform Story Events Speaking and Listening Checklist Teacher Created

3rd ELA Summarizing Speaking Checklist Teacher Created

3rd Social Studies Inquire Justify The Characteristics of the Southwest Region

4th Science Sequence of events Assessment.pdf

5th ELA Problem and Solution Speaking and Listening Checklist

Middle School

6th Math Recounting Dividing Fractions Explaining Our Thinking Teacher Created

7th Math Justification Surface Area and volume.docx

7th Math Problem Solving Constant Rate of Change Teacher Created

7th Math Problem Solving Make Sense Teacher Created

8th Math Problem Solving Using the Academic Language of Problem Solving through Rate of Change Teacher Created

8th Science Classifying Newtons Laws Teacher Created

8th Science Comparing Contrasting Mass vs Weight Teacher Created

7th Science hypothesize design.docx

7th Science Compare Contrast Landforms.pdf

COMING SOON

PBELL Lesson Plans

Problem-based enhanced language learning is intentionally planning meaningful, problem-based lessons that also build high-level, discipline-specific language. The roots of problem-based learning are enhanced by:

Intentionally planning for opportunities to develop and practice language
Including sheltering techniques to make content and language comprehensible
Infusing reading, writing, and speaking and listening into math, science and social studies content
Providing access to rigorous content through a PBL approach

PBELL lessons are organized by elementary and middle school levels. Each link will direct you to a Google Drive folder containing lesson plans, materials and a PowerPoint presentation that can be adapted for your classroom. The folder titles are
labeled:

iTeachELLs — indicating it was designed by the iTeachELLs team
Teacher Created — indicating it was designed by an in-service teacher after attending an iTeachELLs training