Learning Objectives:
Reflect on your current state of student-to-student discourse including prompts and supports.
Refresh yourself on why oral language development is key for academic performance and language development.
Explore prompts for students to ask and answer questions of each other in structured ways to reach grade level content.
Set yourself and your students up for success by planning out your next steps.
Digital Workshop 2: Academic Conversations
Ensuring Equity of Voice for All Language Learners
Popular with all teachers and leaders plus support staff and specialists.
Immediate access to digital workshop showing you how to create the conditions and routines for teaching and assessing academic discourse between students in your classroom. Facilitated by Sarah B. Ottow, Confianza Founder and Author of The Language Lens. This workshop features Confianza’s popular Academic Conversations Tool and the Language Functions Too. Access provided indefinitely for the life of the product.
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| Length | 45 minute video with opportunities to extend learning to 1-2 hours |
| Workshop Type | Asynchronous, on-demand so you can start, stop and finish on on your own time |
| Price | $117 USD |
| Activities | Mini-Lesson Video, Articles & Fieldwork Tools for Application, including personalized action plan |
| Platforms | Integrated here on our website with Squarespace Member Area |
| Certificate | No completion certificate provided |
“I used to have limited ideas for working with student new to the English language and now I have so many ideas and resources from which to draw. ”