Are you looking for practical ways to better support English Language Learners (ELLs) in your classroom?
This session will equip you with dynamic strategies and user-friendly, tech-based resources that will unlock ELL learning and engagement in your classroom. As you explore new techniques, you will see how enhancing your existing routines and curriculum will empower your ELLs to thrive in the content-area classroom.
This session is designed for those in a content-area or grade-level (K-12) setting in which English Language Learners are students in classrooms alongside those who speak English as a primary language.
Objectives:
Learn general strategies to support ELLs in the classroom and about edtech tools that can be used in order to effectively implement such strategies.
Understand gain a basic familiarity with a few low-prep, high impact edtech tools that can be incorporated into any teacher’s routine to better support their ELLs.
Gain a better understanding of both the needs and capabilities of our English-Language Learners.
Earn TRETC Cash for just entering the Innovation Hall! Then collect more TRETC Cash as you visit each table. There is SO much to explore. You will use your TRETC cash at the TRETC Auction in the REA Auditorium at the end of the day!
Monday January 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Snyder Gym
Earn TRETC Cash for just entering the Innovation Hall! Then collect more TRETC Cash as you visit each table. There is SO much to explore. You will use your TRETC cash at the TRETC Auction in the REA Auditorium at the end of the day!
Monday January 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EST
Snyder Gym
Dr. Aaron Sams is an Associate Professor of Education at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. After teaching high school Chemistry in California and Colorado and receiving the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science teaching, he spent many years working with schools and ministries of education worldwide primarily around flipped classroom concept. During this time, he co-published seven book through ISTE and ASCD.
Realizing he is better suited to be in a classroom than on an airplane, he got his Ph.D. In STEM education from Texas Tech and settled into his role at Saint Vincent preparing pre-service teachers for a career serving students. Aaron is currently exploring ethics and bias in AI models and seeks to determine the impact those can have on educational applications of AI. When he is not teaching, Aaron can generally be found cooking with his wife, paying for college application fees for his kids, rock climbing, or remodeling his back yard chicken coop. Classes and presentations with Aaron are likely to contain ridiculous analogies, mediocre singing, self-deprecating humor, and healthy dose of the absurd.
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director: Education, St. Vincent College
Dr. Sams holds a Ph.D. in STEM Education from Texas Tech University and is an Assistant Professor of Education at St. Vincent College. Dr. Sams is an internationally recognized education keynote speaker and has trained thousands of teachers, administrators, and professors to integrate... Read More →
Monday January 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm EST
REA Auditorium
