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Project TALCA - Teaching Academic Language in the Content Areas: Enhancing Achievement for English Language Learners
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 With a five-year $1.49 million Title III National Professional Development Program grant, BC's LSOE will continue to prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to work effectively with bilingual learners/English language learners (ELLs).  Efforts in year 1 focused on the creation of training materials designed to help teachers deliver effective literacy instruction to bilingual learners/ELLs.  In year 2, grant work with faculty, students and area teachers will focus on effective ways to teach academic language in content areas that enables bilingual learners/ELLs to achieve at higher levels in math, science and social studies.  Click for more information on this grant's objectives as well as graduate student scholarship and internship opportunities.

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TELL Certificate Program

The TELL certificate program is designed to help teachers meet current Massachusetts state guidance on the preparation of teachers qualified to teach ELLs by addressing the four categories outlined by the state.  For more information link to http://www.doe.mass.edu/ell/guidance_
laws.html and download the pdf file entitled "Updated Guidance on qualifications for Teacher in Sheltered English Immersion Classrooms.  June 15, 2004."  Or download this document directly.


MELA-O information
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  Massachusetts English Language Assessment-Oral (MELA-O) is the assessment that is used to evaluate the English speaking and listening skills of limited English proficient (LEP) students. Learn more...