Building College and Career Readiness for ESL Learners
Presenters: Lori Howard, ESL teacher, coordinator, author and CASAS Program Specialist Coordinator
Sylvia G. Ramirez, Professor Emeritus at MiraCosta College and teacher educator, author and consultant
In this session, participants are introduced to the College and Career Readiness Standards and consider how these standards can be applied to ESL instruction. Participants learned and practiced an approach to unpacking each of the standards by identifying the specific skills addressed, applying the standards to currently used textbooks, and considering what additional activities might be needed to supplement existing texts in order to help ESL learners meet the standards.
AUDIENCE: All teacher types
TOPIC: Adult Education Standards
PUBLISH DATE: May 2014