Beth Skelton is an international presenter, coach and consultant who will be leading professional learning sessions over two days this April. Registration is open for the following courses.
What's Different about Teaching Reading to English Learners? (Pre-K-2nd)
In this session, participants will discover how to effectively teach the five components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonic, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension) to English Learners. This session demonstrates best practices for teaching foundational reading skills and provides strategies educators can implement immediately.
- Date: April 3, 2024 from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
- Location: Kirkwood Linn County Regional Center, 1770 Boyson Rd. Hiawatha, IA
- Register Today! Course #216105
Making Content Comprehensible for Newcomers (Grades 3-12)
Do you have students new to English in your classroom? This session provides concrete, practical strategies for making grade level content lessons comprehensible to students even on the first day. In this interactive session, you will experience learning content in a new language and apply those strategies to your own lessons.
- Date: April 3, 2024 from 12:30 - 3:30 p.m.
- Location: Kirkwood Linn County Regional Center, 1770 Boyson Rd. Hiawatha, IA
- Register Today! Course #216106
Experienced Multilinguals (Grades 4-12)
This full day, in-person workshop is based on Tan Huynh’s and Beth Skelton’s book “Long Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals”. The authors suggest that experienced multilinguals are capable of reaching the highest academic standards under optimal conditions. The workshop will guide you in cultivating these conditions in your dedicated English language development classes, general education classes and in sheltered or co taught content classes. The target audience is educators who support English Learners in grades 4-12.
- Date: April 4, 2024 from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
- Location: Grant Wood AEA, 4401 Sixth Street S.W., Cedar Rapids, IA
- Register Today! Course #216116