An episode packed with learning opportunities! Carol shares information about her webinar on SLIFE, recent breakout sessions on newcomers, her P3 with @NoasBOBs and why we should all join NAELPA.
Don't have enough class time? Restricted by curriculum blocks or grading timelines? Then you need to know about Carol's guest, Noa Daniel, and her innovative approach to instruction. You need to be building outside the blocks!
@Alycia_Owen an educator in Guangzhou, China, is Carol's guest for this VoicEd anniversary show. They discuss teaching English abroad and Alycia offers insight from the educator and the parent point of view.
Carol, Derek and Stephen talk about foundations of Second Language Acquisition because a teacher in Derek’s school is welcoming a newcomer student mid year. Carol ties those practices to effective instruction for all learners and offers many techniques that we can start tomorrow.
Carol is joined by Tan Huynh (@TanELLclassroom), Valentina Gonzalez (@ValentinaESL), & Dr. Katie Toppel (@Toppel_ELD) to discuss what to keep in mind for equitable grading and assessment of ELs.
With precious little time to reflect, we must make every minute count. Carol offers resources for the EL educator and also offers considerations for how we spend our off time.
Emergent Readers can gain literacy and language quickly once they understand how. Carol walks us through her process for partnering with Emergent Readers.
We may have literacy strategies, but we didn't all get training in how to teach a person to read when they don't know how to decipher the text. What should we focus on? Phonetics? Something else? Carol offers an explanation and some hacks for the upper grades!
Tonya Ward Singer returns to the podcast to chat with Carol about what teachers and administrators need to know when working with ELs. Listeners get a peek into their planning conversation for their upcoming ELevate Conference keynotes.
Carol talks with Lori Patten about how to differentiate in secondary for a wide range of ability levels.
Carol recaps specific moves to start the school year and adds a heavy emphasis on how to support new arrival students in a challenging, often negative, political climate.
Derek Rhodenizer returns! This episode offers many insights into personalized PD opportunities and Derek shares how he created, modeled and ran a personalized PD system for this staff.
Carol celebrates students with interruptions in education who are graduating and passing state assessments. She is joined by two students who help explain some of the support they get and give through One World Club.
Carol offers advice and concrete suggestions for supporting our students who may not meet end of year requirements. All of this with a healthy dose of inspiration!
ESL Leaders talk about Comprehensible Input and Strategies in an ELLchat_BkClub discussion. Allyson Newton leads the group in breaking down these two components of the SIOP Model and answering questions from our twitter PLN.
Carol answers questions from ESL and content teachers who are working through a book study of Boosting Achievement. The questions are about working with students with limited education.
Carol breaks down the practical techniques that make it possible to teach grade level writing to emergent writers.
Positive outcomes of honoring voice, choice and reflection.
Carol offers reflections from NABE2019 along with two different professional development sessions you can use for yourself or with your teachers.
Karina Chap (@BilingualPride) and Carol (@MsSalvaC) give you a powerful opportunity to help English learners and their families. They talk about what is really happening in her Texas border town and how we can support migrant families who are in desperate need.
A special voicEd Radiothon version of Boosting Achievement ESL Podcast.
Carol talks with @JudieHaynes and @KarenNemethEdM about their very popular #ELLchat. They discuss it as a hashtag, a twitter chat and also as the backbone of the EL PLN all week long.
We all need to step up if want things to improve for ELs. Hear from Carol, Derek Rhodenizer & Jennifer Hunter Dillon (@italkliteracy) on why you should be a part of #MADPD.
Carol explains a unit of study that takes students from examining historical events to taking action and showing kindness. This episode offers a step by step for the first lesson, ideas for taking the thinking to higher levels and links to many resources. Throughout the learning the focus is listening, speaking, reading and writing in the target language.
If you need to start over, this show is for you. Carol breaks down her 5 most practical ideas to get an ESL classroom back on track PLUS a Bonus Tip!. Any teacher will benefit from this show as most of the suggestions work for all students. Get ready for a reboot!
Stephen Hurley, Ramona Mahberg and Jen Cort join Carol to lift up Paul McGuire as a thought leader and champion of underprivileged youth. The group discusses gratitude and offers many take aways for teachers of ELs.
Author and consultant Tonya Singer (@TonyaWardSinger) joins Carol (@MsSalvac) to talk about how we can support English Learners with excellence. Tonya has some innovative ideas about instruction and how we hold the bar high for ELs!
Tan Huyhn (@TanELLclassroom) & Deborah Brey (@ELL_Deb) join Carol to think through ways to deliver your own #VirtuEL style online conference. Resources & ideas are shared plus a special cameo by Derek Rhodenizer of #MADPD
Carol & Derek try a new way to podcast. That build this one outside the blocks of time a la @noasbobs!
