THE INTERRUPTED EDUCATION PATHWAY
3 Course Series
"Students with interrupted education need specialized programming and assistance, above and beyond what is normally provided to ELLs."
-Brenda Custodio & Judith B. O'Loughlin
The Interrupted Education pathway features three courses to help you understand and support students with interrupted or limited education.
COURSE 1: Education Interrupted: SLIFE
COURSE 2: Developmental Literacy
COURSE 3: Filling Language & Content Gaps
15 PD HOURS | $275.00
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COURSE 1
Education Interrupted: SLIFE
Many schools have experienced waves of enrollment that include students with limited or siginificantly interrupted education. Look in depth at the issues causing the limited educational opportunities, and what push and pull factors are bringing these students to the US and Canada. Explore culturally and linguistically appropriate strategies to address the academic and non-academic needs of this student group.
5 PD HOURS | $95.00
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Learning Objectives
- Explore some of the causes of education disruption for students with interrupted schooling;
- Describe the diversity found within this student group;
- Consider challenges faced by students with interrupted education and how these challenges impact instructional decisions; and
- Discuss which academic and non-academic supports best meet the needs of various learners.
Course Features
- Self-Paced: Flexible learning components for you can work on at times that are most convenient to you.
- 5 Professional Development Hours upon successful completion
- Practical Application activities for you to apply course strategies and tools
- Expert Coaching from your course facilitator who is always on call
"Judy O'Loughlin and Brenda Custodio are definitely top professionals in the field of teaching ELLs. Their research has guided teachers to work successfully with their students."
-Pam Rose, ESL teacher & Chair of Refugee Concerns IS of TESOL International
COURSE 2
Developmental Literacy
Many schools have experienced waves of enrollment that include students with limited or siginificantly interrupted education. Look in depth at their unique literacy needs and explore strategies to meet them where they are.
5 PD HOURS | $95.00
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Learning Objectives
- Explain the difference between strategies for reading instruction in a student’s first and second languages;
- Select vocabulary for instruction which impacts passage comprehension and provide students with strategies for understanding new words;
- Select appropriate, culturally relevant literature, both fiction and non-fiction, for language arts and content classrooms.
Course Features
- Self-Paced: Flexible learning components for you can work on at times that are most convenient to you.
- 5 Professional Development Hours upon successful completion
- Practical Application activities for you to apply course strategies and tools
- Expert Coaching from your course facilitator who is always on call
COURSE 3
Filling Language & Content Gaps
Many students enter U.S. schools with limited literacy skills. How do you develop reading and writing with students who missed those primary grade skills without treating them like young children? This course shares how to develop literacy in an age appropriate manner across all content areas.
5 PD HOURS | $95.00
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Learning Objectives
- Develop lessons that focus on language and content simultaneously;
- Select resources that best meet the needs of students in the content classroom; and
- Apply the strategies provided to create lessons that match student needs.
Course Features
- Self-Paced: Flexible learning components for you can work on at times that are most convenient to you.
- 5 Professional Development Hours upon successful completion
- Practical Application activities for you to apply course strategies and tools
About the Instructors
Dr. Brenda Custodio
Dr. Brenda Custodio is a former secondary ESL teacher, a district-level resource teacher, and building administrator with Columbus City Schools in Ohio. She helped to create the newcomer program and the sheltered content courses for secondary level SIFE learners for the district. She is a frequent presenter at both the state and national level on topics of literacy development, refugee resettlement, newcomer programs, trauma-informed strategies for immigrants, and SIFE. She has written three professional books: How to Design and Implement a Newcomer Program, Students with Interrupted Formal Education: Bridging Where They Are and What They Need and Supporting the Journey of English Learners with Trauma.
Judith B. O’Loughlin, M.Ed
Judith B. O’Loughlin, M.Ed., a former New Jersey K-8 ESL and special education teacher, works with K–12 teachers, providing professional development on newcomers, SIFE, sheltered differentiated instruction, and intervention tiers for students at risk. She has taught graduate-level TESOL endorsement courses. She is a frequent presenter at TESOL, NABE, CABE, and CATESOL. Her publications include the Academic Language Accelerator and chapters in three edited books: The CCSS in English Language Arts for Grades K–5, Academic Language in Diverse Classrooms, Mathematics, Grades 3-5, and Co-Teaching and Other Collaborative Practices in The EFL/ESL Classroom.
Judith is the co-author of both Students with Interrupted Formal Education: Bridging Where They Are and What They Needand Supporting the Journey of English Learners with Trauma with Brenda Custodio.
