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• Consider the effect of demographic changes on schools.
• Examine different approaches to educating ELL students.
• Identify key elements to effective instruction.
• Explore your own attitude about and approach to teaching ELL students.

• Consider how culture affects learning.
• Explore the ELL student's experience.
• Consider cultural differences.
• Examine the involvement of ELL students' parents.
• Learn culturally supportive strategies for the classroom.

• Explore how children acquire a second language.
• Examine the difference between social language and academic language.
• Consider support systems for teachers.
• Examine ways to reduce the anxiety ELL students experience.
• Learn basic instructional strategies for any classroom.

• Explore guidelines for planning instruction.
• Identify different reading and writing teaching strategies for ELL students of any age.
• Consider how ELL students learn to read in the primary grades.
• Consider how ELL students read to learn in the secondary grades.

• Examine effective measures of assessing ELL students.
• Explore alternative approaches to grading English language learners.
• Learn how to prepare ELL students for high-stakes testing.
• Consider the implications of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on ELL students.

• Explore common learning patterns for nonnative English speakers.
• Examine typical signs of a learning disability.
• Learn how a teacher can distinguish ESL issues from learning challenges.
• Consider gifted ELL students.

• Review effective strategies for ELL students in mainstream classrooms.
• Examine effective models for teaching ELL students in mainstream classrooms.
• Consider a multicultural pedagogy.