Held March 28, 2012, in Indianapolis, IN, in conjunction with the 2012 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) annual conference.
This one-day pre-conference professional development workshop hosted by the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) featured classroom practitioners that sharing effective science instructional practices for English Learners (ELs). A major challenge for ELs in mastering science content is acquisition of the academic language reflected in science texts and other science instructional materials.
The workshop was geared toward middle- and high school science teachers seeking to learn techniques for teaching inclusive lessons for English Learners, as well as administrators wishing to share this information with their teachers.
Conference Materials
Dr. Rosalinda B. Barrera, Director, Office for English Language Acquisition, U.S. Department of Education
English Learners Left Behind: A Civil Rights Data Collection Overview
Jennifer Jordan-Kaszuba, Science Specialist, Education Service Center Region XIII
Project Director, Central Texas Regional Collaborative for Science
Poster: What to say instead of "I don't know"
Poster: Please express your thoughts in complete sentences
Position statement of the NSTA on English learners
Dr. Cory Buxton, Associate Professor, University of Georgia
West Corley, Science Teacher, Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School
Helene Halstead, Language Arts and Special Education Teacher, Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School
Language-Rich Inquiry-based Science with English Language Learners (LISELL)
LISELL Academic Language of Science
LISELL Lesson Starters: Coordinating Hypothesis, Observation, and Evidence
Explaining Cause and Effect Relationships
Controlling Variables in Experiments
Using the Academic Language of Science
Use of General Purpose Academic Vocabulary
LISELL Lesson Frameworks for Planning & Guiding Implementation of the LISELL Inquiry Practices
Common Science Prefixes and Suffixes
Monica Villescas Trevathan, Human Research Program - Education Outreach, NASA Johnson Space Center
Resources Available from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut Challenge
Exploring Space Through Math: Applications in High School Mathematics
Preconference Materials
For more information: Contact Crystal Martínez, OELA
E-mail: crystal.martinez@ed.gov