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The Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) at The University of Georgia offers a 30-hour foundational professional learning institute focused on the research-based pedagogy: Instructional Conversations (IC). This institute will give teachers access to:

  • The linguistics of second language acquisition
  • Strategies for integrating language goals into content teaching
  • Tools for encouraging collaborative conversations
  • Ways to make content and language standards real and relevant for all learners while maintaining rigor
  • Our Online Professional Learning Platform

The power of this system is that it provides a structure for teachers to integrate focused language goals with rigorous content instruction, rather than creating "one more thing" to make time for. The Instructional Conversation (IC) System is a "way of teaching" and conceptualizing teaching and learning that positively impacts student language development and opens the space for formative assessment and differentiation.

To get a better idea of the topic, the research base behind ICs, and what an IC looks like, take a few minutes to view:

 

Schedule

Synchronous Sessions:

  • 4 six-hour sessions (20 total synchronous hours)
  • 8:30am-4:30pm EST

Asynchronous Sessions:

  • Participants will be expected to complete one precourse set of activities and one set between each synchronous session to apply learning from the synchronous sessions (10 total asynchronous hours)

Cost includes training materials provided electronically and physically via mail. Included amongst the materials is the course book, With a Little Help From My Friends: Conversation-Based Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Classrooms (Mellom, Hixon, & Weber, 2019). Additional copies can be purchased at Teachers College Press or Amazon.

Certificate of Completion: Participants will receive a CLASE Certificate of Completion which may be used for continuing education credit.

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