Educational Service District 101
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Course Description:
This course focuses on effective strategies for English language reading instruction. Learn practical techniques and methods for teaching reading in any ELL environment. Explore key issues related to the successful teaching of reading, such as the role of reading within an ELL curriculum and detailed classroom teaching techniques. Topics include, engagement, motivation, modeling, intensive and extensive reading, vocabulary challenges, comprehension skills, reading rate, reading strategies lesson planning, selecting materials and assessment. This course provides many practical approaches and strategies to improve teaching and learning in the ELL reading environment.
Course Objectives: Participants will
- Assess students’ level of motivation, and use strategies for motivating, engaging, and inspiring students in the reading classroom, and discover how students’ first-language (L1) reading skills impact their second language (L2) proficiency, especially in regard to reading.
- Integrate intensive and extensive reading in their curriculum, working with students to develop their reading rate and become more confident, fluent, and engaged readers.
- Integrate vocabulary teaching into reading curriculum using very valuable high-frequency word lists.
- Design a strong curriculum using the components of effective lesson planning, including how to integrate other language skills along with reading, come up with teaching objectives, sequence your activities, and measure your effectiveness.
- Assess students’ learning through formative and summative testing, and support the students as they prepare for standardized tests like the TOEFL and IELTS.
Course Description, Enrollment and Pricing
Educational Service District 101
All CE Credits Online Courses are Clock Hour Approved by ESD 101
ESD 101 Teachers and Administrators are Eligible for Discounted Tuition Earn Clock Hours or University Credits
PLEASE REVIEW THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO OBTAIN YOUR CLOCK HOURS
To Receive your Clock Hours:
Once you complete your course, please request a “Clock Hour Form” by mail, fax or phone from ESD 101.
Request Clock Hour Forms:
Shelly Johnson
Phone: (509) 323-2727
Email:
sjohnson@esd101.net
Fax
(509) 789-3554
Send in Completed Clock Hour Request Form, Certificate of Completion and Clock Hour Fees:
Karen Domini
NEWESD 101
4202 S. Regal
Spokane, WA 99223
Your CE Credits Online
Completion Certificate can be printed from your CE Credits Online Student Homepage. Clock hour fees are $2.00 per clock hour.
Additional information regarding clock hours and NEW ESD 101 professional learning information can be obtained
here
To Request University Credit:
All courses are eligible for university credit. University Credit requests must be submitted within two (2) weeks within your CE Credits course completion from your Student Homepage.
Please visit our
University Affiliations for more information about our university partnerships. (Additional fees apply to receive University credit.)
CE Credits Online is pleased to offer you high-quality online professional development courses designed to improve teaching and student achievement.
- Standards-based
- University credits available
- Asynchronous – start at any time
- Self-paced – work at your own convenience
- Completely online – no commuting, parking, missed classes and no dress code!
- User friendly and engaging with numerous videos that model new strategies and skills
- Facilitated by highly trained moderators, experienced in education
Information for Washington
Washington State Information
Washington State Certification Renewal Requirements
To maintain the validity of the continuing certificate, 150 clock hours of continuing education study and/or equivalent academic credit (15 quarter hours or 10 semester hours) must be completed every five years
OR
For those who hold a certificate from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) present a copy of a valid NBPTS certificate
For more information regarding maintaining/renewing a continuing certificate, please click here
Referenced from State of Washington Office of Public Instruction:
http://www.k12.wa.us/certification/teacher/continuing.aspx#maintain
University Affiliations
You may request academic credits upon completion of your CE Credits Online course(s).; This must be done within two (2) weeks of your CE Credits Online course completion.
If you will be requesting university credits, it is important you read all the information for your selected university. Some universities require you to obtain a letter grade and others offer both letter grades and a pass/fail option. If you require a letter grade or intend to obtain academic credit from a university requiring a letter grade, you will select that option prior to beginning your course during the enrollment process.
Please keep in mind, some of our university affiliations are quarter based credit systems and some are semester based credits systems. Please verify with your Professional Development department which credit based system they accept.
All courses are eligible for university credit. Please visit University Affiliations for more information. (University Credit fees are not included in the cost of tuition.)
CE Credits Online is pleased to offer you high-quality online professional development courses designed to improve teaching and student achievement.
- 100% Online – no commuting, parking or missed classes
- Clock Hours available through Educational Service District 123
- University Credits available through CE Credits Online university partners
- Asynchronous – start at anytime
- Self-paced – work at your own convenience
Why choose CE Credits Online
How CE Credits Online Satisfies Washington Educator Certification Renewal Requirements
University Credits
You may request university, post baccalaureate, academic credit(s) from one of CE Credits Online regionally accredited partner universities. CE Credits Online suggests each Washington educator contact their local professional development coordinator to obtain verification that the proposed activity meets criteria and needs of the teacher's individual Professional Development Plan (PDP), his/her school's professional development plan, and the local school system's professional development plan.
CE Credits Online courses are approved for Clock Hours through the following Educational Service Districts and Organizations
CE Credits Online suggests each Washington educator register for CE Credits Online courses through their Educational Service District (find the link to your ESD below. If you do not see your ESD, you can register through the ESD of your choice and request clock hours from them). We recommend to all educators that they verify that the course of their choice meets any specific or special requirements established by their school, district or personal professional development plan.
For a list of CE Credits Online
university partners