CourseCompass Access Code Card for Course Connect: ELL Methods and Curriculum Development

This online ELL Methods and Curriculum Development course developed by Pearson Teacher Education and Development offers instructors a rich online course built around assignments and activities, classroom videos, and readings. Weekly assignments are focused on essential course concepts and provide well-structured and effective learning activities. Once students complete these assignments they are given opportunities to discuss and reflect upon what they have learned. Students are then led tomeaningful weekly activities that require them to apply what they have learned. Available for most course management systems, this course is customizable and can easily accommodate and adapt to instructors’ own resources and materials.

Basic Course Components

Course Documents

• Online Student Manual
• Course Syllabus
• Course Reading Assignments from Leading Texts
• Rubrics
• Online Resources
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Lesson Plan Template
• Microsoft Tutorials

Weekly Assignments

• Learning Objectives
• Learning Log
• Reading Assignments
• Viewing Activities
• Theory Into Practice Exercises
• Discussion Board Questions
• Synthesize/Apply/Reflect Exercises
• Assignment Guidelines
• Additional Resources

ELL Methods and Curriculum Development Course Topics

• Introduction to English as a Second Language
• Fundamentals of Language Learning
• Language Acquisition
• ESL Methodologies and Instructional Practices
• Oral Language Instruction
• Reading Instruction
• Writing Instruction
• Content Area Instruction
• Assessment

Books Aligned to the Course

• Diaz-Rico, L.T. (2008)Course for Teaching English Learners, A. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 0205510507
  
• Horwitz, E.K. (2008) Becoming A Language Teacher: A Practical Guide to Second Language Learning and Teaching. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 0205430821
  
• New Levine, L. & McCloskey, M.L. (2009) Teaching Learners of English in Mainstream Classrooms (K-8) (with MyEducationLab). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 0138155968
  
• Peregoy, S.F. & Boyle, O.F. (2009) Reading , Writing and Learning in ESL: A Resource Book for Teaching K-12 English Learners (with MyEducationLab), (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 020562684X