Strengthening ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS' Engagement and Academic Achievement: Strategies That Work!

Presented by Nicole Teyechea
Outstanding Educator and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades K-12: EL Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Instructional Aides, Title I Staff, Interventionists, and Administrators

Strengthen engagement and academic achievement – the best strategies to help your English Learners
Maximize academic and conversational English through innovative, high impact instructional techniques and approaches
The most effective EL teaching strategies to help you powerfully integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills to increase student achievement
Effective ways to challenge ELs commensurate with their varied levels of English language proficiency and your high expectations

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Are you looking for innovative ways to enhance your instruction for English Learners (ELs)? Do some of your ELs need additional support, while others need additional rigor and challenge? Do you find that while your students have so many needs, you struggle to find time for additional targeted instruction? In this NEW fast-paced seminar, Nicole Teyechea will share outstanding strategies designed to strengthen your ELs' academic achievement as they build proficiency in English. Learn highly effective strategies that work across grades K-12 to increase students' willingness to take calculated risks and achieve success as learners. Discover a wide variety of proven, practical strategies to ensure that your ELs are better positioned to take on new and challenging content area language, skills and knowledge.

Armed with an extensive digital resource handbook and an effective instructional game plan, you will leave this seminar with a renewed desire to make a difference in the lives of your English Learners.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Strengthen the Engagement and Academic Achievement of Your English Learners (ELs)
Outstanding, proven strategies that work! … Accelerate academic achievement and help your ELs get the most from your interventions and instruction
The Most Effective EL Teaching Strategies
The best, most effective strategies for reaching and teaching your ELs
Increase Students' Motivation and Academic Learning
Highly effective ways to ensure that ELs maintain high levels of engagement without losing confidence in their abilities to achieve lesson objectives … Ideas to help you optimize student learning
Significantly Increase Academic Vocabulary and Oral Conversation
Engage your ELs in instructional conversations that will accelerate their academic language development … Increase active participation and engagement
Boost Literacy Achievement for EL Students by Combining Powerful Strategies
Embed academic and social-emotional strategies into lessons to boost the achievement of your EL students
Maximize Reading and Writing Achievement
Sharpen ELs' literacy skills through meaningful and relevant instructional activities, strategies and approaches … Set high expectations for all your ELs and provide them with the means to reach them
Enhance and Expand Critical Thinking Skills
Develop higher-order thinking skills in your ELs … Discover proven strategies to tap into and challenge your students' thinking and creativity
Provide Vital Additional Supports Your Students Need Most
Discover a host of strategies and approaches that will help you maximize the impact of your instruction … Provide the additional supports your ELs need to rapidly learn both conversational and academic English
Extend and Enrich Your Existing Curriculum
Simultaneously challenge your ELs and enhance their learning experiences … You need not start from scratch – discover highly effective, use-tomorrow strategies to help you powerfully extend your existing curriculum
Receive an Extensive EL Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive a digital resource handbook, specially designed for this seminar and filled with outstanding strategies, tips and solutions for strengthening your ELs' engagement and academic achievement

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Innovative, high-impact strategies that increase academic achievement, motivation and time on task
Help your English Learners (ELs) productively participate in the classroom
Strategies to enhance the listening, speaking, writing, and reading comprehension of your ELs
Make academic vocabulary more comprehensible – dozens of useful processes, strategies and skill-development techniques
Practical ways to strengthen ELs' critical thinking and understanding
Proven, doable strategies to more fully engage your ELs
Highly effective ways to increase achievement across the spectrum – from your most struggling to your highest achieving students
Innovative ways to specifically target diverse levels of students' readiness, interests and learning styles
Effective ways to optimally support ELs who struggle or have learning disabilities
Numerous visual strategies you can use to increase student learning
Research-based, highly effective ways to build an optimal learning environment that encourages your ELs to take risks in their learning
How to maximize key vocabulary usage to strengthen conceptual understanding and increase achievement across all subjects
Dynamic assessment techniques that collect rich student data so you can powerfully adjust your instruction
Easy-to-implement, proven social-emotional strategies to more fully engage your English Learners
Proven ways to significantly increase growth mindset and student ownership using "TWRLS" for your EL students
Learn what "SKS" is, how it improves academic and social-emotional learning, and how it provides students opportunities to develop English literacy skills while learning grade level content

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As an EL educator, I've come to recognize the importance of tailoring our approach to English Language Learners in ways that enhance their engagement in grade level learning opportunities. When it comes to effective learning experiences, practicality and alignment with the unique needs of our EL students are key factors.

Reflecting on my own educational journey, I've found that my most memorable and impactful learning moments were crafted by teachers who engaged me as a lifelong learner.

My goal as a presenter is to equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to make learning meaningful and directly applicable to your EL students. Over time, I've gathered the most essential strategies that have proven to be effective in engaging students and elevating their learning outcomes. In this seminar, you'll have ample opportunities to refine and enhance your current teaching methods, enabling you to improve English language proficiency and promote grade level academic success among your EL students.

Throughout our seminar, I'll be sharing a wealth of proven techniques that allow you to simultaneously deliver content, integrate effective social-emotional strategies, and strengthen English language skills.

I look forward to our seminar and the chance to provide you with practical strategies and valuable resources that you can readily implement in your classrooms and share with colleagues.

Smiles,
Nicole Teyechea

P.S. You will also receive an extensive digital EL instruction resource handbook filled with numerous ideas and valuable, practical strategies to assist in helping increase the English literacy and academic content instruction of your EL students.

Who Should Attend

Grades K-12: EL Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Instructional Aides, Title I Staff, Interventionists, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

Dozens of powerful strategies with step-by-step directions you can successfully use with your ELs
Management and organizational tips to enhance your effectiveness
Doable ways to adapt and enrich your lesson delivery to increase content accessibility and strengthen student learning
Effective strategies to increase motivation and student engagement
And much, much more!

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their English Language Learners' program.

Consultation Available
Nicole Teyechea will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

On-Site Training Guarantee

BER is not a booking agency that just finds a presenter who presents on the topic you requested. Rather, we only recommend highly experienced BER presenters who have consistently received outstanding evaluations from educators attending their trainings.

Consequently, we provide a strong program guarantee.

We guarantee you'll be fully satisfied or you'll owe us nothing after your on-site training event.