COURSE OVERVIEW
Long-Term Success For Experienced Multilinguals
In this 15-hour, asynchronous book study course, authors Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton address the largest subgroup of English learners currently labeled as long-term English learners. In their book, Huynh and Skelton intentionally use the term experienced multilinguals to affirm that these students are capable of reaching the highest academic standards under optimal conditions. Huynh and Skelton’s book guides teachers in cultivating these conditions.
15 PD HOURS | $310.00
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Learning Objectives*
- Develop an affirming shift in perspective on this group of students (Chapter 1)
- Understand the dimensions of academic English, the importance of teaching learning strategies, and learn a researched-informed, classroom-tested instructional framework (Chapter 2)
- Apply strategies for engineering summative assessments (Chapter 3)
- Use a lesson planning template designed to incorporate the principles of the instructional framework for EMs(Chapter 4)
- Implement strategies to establish comprehensible input (Chapter 5)
- Practice approaches to structure academic output (Chapter 6)
- Engage with an approach to school-wide implementation (Chapter 7)
Course Features
- Self-Paced: Flexible learning components for you can work on at times that are most convenient to you.Â
- 15 Professional Development Hours upon successful completion
- Practical Application activities for you to apply course strategies and tools
- Eligible for 1 graduate credit with an additional fee of $75 paid to UMass Global
"I am recommending this book as a district and school read for secondary teachers!  I have been working with ML students for 20+ years, and this is the most relevant, resourceful, and applicable book I have read for teaching secondary ML students."Â
About the Instructors
Tan Huynh
Tan (@TanKHuynh) is a career teacher, consultant, and author specializing in language acquisition and literacy development. Tan has taught students from 5th to 10th grade in public, private, charter, and international schools. He has served as a language specialist and is currently a secondary social studies teacher. Tan shares teaching strategies on his blog and podcast with the hopes of celebrating teachers who answer the call to serve multilingual learners.
Beth Skelton
Beth has 30 years of experience as a language educator. She has worked with early childhood, elementary, middle, high school and adult language learners in rural, urban, suburban, and international school settings. She is an active board member of CoTESOL (Colorado Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages). She has published materials for teaching adult English Learners with the TPRS method entitled Putting it Together. She holds a Master’s Degree in Multicultural Teacher Education and certification in German and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education.
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