Date of Award
5-2013
Degree Type
Creative Project
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Special Education and Rehabilitation
Committee Chair(s)
Lillian Durán
Committee
Lillian Durán
Committee
Susan Turner
Committee
Nancy Glomb
Abstract
The purpose of this project is to develop and present a training session for elementary school teachers and other Personnel who teach and work with English Language Learners (ELL). The training provides information on evidence based instructional strategies to help teachers improve their teaching methods with students who speak languages other than English. The lack of teacher knowledge in utilizing culturally and linguistically responsive teaching methods may be contributing to the over identification of ELLs in special education. This situation reinforces the need for additional teacher training for those who teach students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This creative project fills a need in the field by (1) accessing teacher needs and presenting improved educational strategies for elementary school teachers serving ELLs, (2) developing and making available a training including input and responses for a needs assessment, (3) providing the initial training, (4) including a section on instructing and understanding how a second language acquisition process goes through a sequential series of stages, (5) measuring the effectiveness of the training via pre-post tests administered to the participants.
Recommended Citation
Poole, Mallory Whitney, "The Development and Evaluation of an In-service Training for Informing Elementary School Personnel About Culturally Responsive Assessment and Instruction for English Language Learning Students" (2013). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 314.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/314
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