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Teachers can take these 5-Hour ENL courses to obtain in-service or meet their certification renewal requirements. *New York State teachers can take them to meet their CTLE requirements. Users have 5 weeks to complete each course. Courses are non-instructed, rolling enrollment, include a job-embedded lesson assignment, a quiz, and forum participation. A certificate of completion will be available for download upon successful course completion. 

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Course image" Tools and Practices for Effective Progress Monitoring of ENL Students, Grades K-12
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Through a tiered instructional framework, participants will be introduced to tools and research-based practices of effective progress monitoring at Tiers II and III of the RtI framework with a ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" The Art of Differentiating Instruction for ENL Students, K-12
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The art of differentiation happens through design, re-design, and flexible teaching strategy. Participants in this e-course will reinvent lessons using research-based, effective methods for ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Teaching to Text Complexity for ENL Students, Grades 3-9
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Reading strategies will focus on skill and readability as participants are introduced to leveling systems that scaffold. Participants will be introduced to the scaffolding mechanisms needed to ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Teaching to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Grades 3-12
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Teaching to cultural and linguistic diversity requires careful and flexible planning, creativity, and a teamed approach that involves parents and all educational stakeholders in order to develop ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Research-Based Literacy Strategies For ENL Students, Grades K-12
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Participants will be introduced to sound and scientific research as it promotes literacy across all content areas to help ENL students build foundational skills across reading, writing, speaking ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Purposeful Planning With Differentiation and ENL Students in Mind, Grades K-12
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Planning with purpose leads to effective instruction. This course takes learners through a variety of planning processes that align closely to pre-established learning goals, objectives, state and ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Multiple Intelligences, Multiple Learning Styles: ENL Students, Grades 3-12
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Research continues to show that providing students with multiple entry-points to learning improves performance. Tools and resources used to measure learning styles and learning preferences will be ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Literature Circles That Differentiate for ENL Students, Grades K-8
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Literature circles with flexible grouping are a combination that works perfectly into a differentiated literacy curriculum for ENL students. With a strong record of success, literature circles ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Literacy Strategies for Struggling Learners and ENLs: Grades 3-12
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Consistent use of reading and writing strategy across all content areas continues to turn around the language skills of English language learners, particularly those who struggle. Participants will...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Formative Assessment Practices for ENL Students, Grades K-5
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Assessment of learning or for learning? Balanced, summative interim and formative assessments will be evaluated for CCSS application in this e-course. Participants will understand how to ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Data-Driven Decision-Making for ENLs, Grades K-12
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Instructional decision-making hinges on variables that can change by the minute, the hour, and the student. The many forms that data take can inform rich instruction. It’s all about driving the ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Common Core Writing Standards and Strategies That Support Them for ENL Students, Grades K-5
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With a focus on expository writing geared for ENL students, participants will cull the CCSS writing and language standards for their application to content-specific writing genre within ENL ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Common Core Writing Standards and Strategies That Support Them for ENL Students, Grades 6-12
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With a focus on expository writing geared for ENL students, participants will cull the CCSS writing and language standards for their application to content-specific writing genre within ENL ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Close Reading Strategies for ENLs: What are they, and how do we teach them? Grades 3-8
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While many students will develop their own methods to read complicated text, answer high-level questions and respond with written products, many ENL students will struggle with reading complex text...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Building Reading Comprehension in English Language Learners, PK-3
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The building blocks to effective reading comprehension begin in the primary grades with explicit instruction, teacher modeling and lots of guided practice. Under this umbrella, participants will ...

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Course image" Best Practices in Literacy for ENL Students, Grades K-12
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After analyzing lessons to determine the best embedded practices that support diverse English language learners, participants will divide by grade bands to learn the best practices embedded within ...

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Course image" Best Practices for Inclusive Classrooms and ENL Students, Grades K-12
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Careful thought and planning can garner the best classroom management practices for inclusive classrooms. Participants in this course will learn how to create balanced classrooms, and evaluate ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Best Practices for Differentiating in Bilingual Classrooms, Grades K-5
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Teaching and differentiating in inclusive classrooms requires careful and flexible planning and creativity. Through design, re-design, and research-based, field tested strategy in inclusive ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" Best Practices for Differentiating in Bilingual Classrooms, Grades 6-8
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Teaching and differentiating in inclusive classrooms requires careful and flexible planning and creativity. Through design, re-design, and research-based, field tested strategy in inclusive ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved
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Course image" All About Balanced Literacy and English Language Learners: K-8
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Participants in this e-course will learn how the balanced literacy components of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension to work into a balanced reading, writing, ...

5-Hour ENL Courses - NYS CTLE Approved