Breaking Through Barriers To Language Acquisition
Classes
Online Classes are $109.00 to $199.00 per class.
(No refunds but you can reschedule or pass it on to a friend)
- Start dates for ALL classes are EVERY MONDAY of each month.
You must begin a class within 30 days of payment for the class.
- We are unable to give refunds. If you are unable to take a class that you purchased, you may contact us to reschedule the class.
- College credit available for an additional fee from National Hispanic University.
Got ELLs? Peak Performance for grades 7-12
This course focuses on helping content teachers at the secondary school level with their ELL students.
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This course focuses on middle school and high school mainstream content classrooms with ELLs in them. Over the length of this 8 week course, content teachers will develop the skills to differentiate a content lesson of their choosing in which all 4 language skills are addressed in ways which will boost language proficiency while providing access to grade level content.
Got ELLs? Peak Performance for grades K-6
Learn to meet the needs of your ELL students at the Elementary school level.
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This course is designed for teachers who teach in a completely self-contained classroom or who teach a Core class which includes at least two subject areas. Over the length of this 8 week course, content teachers will develop the skills to differentiate a content lesson of their choosing in which all 4 language skills are addressed in ways which will boost language proficiency while providing access to grade level content. The final project will be a thematic lesson.
Integrating Digital Photography into the Curriculum
The content will provide participants skills and strategies to develop engaging, standards-based lessons to help students enhance curriculum content lessons, project-based learning lesson and presentation of new content for students.
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Teachers will: Be able to choose and use a digital camera to take pictures for their class curriculum lessons. Be able use digital storytelling to create differentiated lessons to assist visual learners. Be able to use short videos for lesson presentations or demonstrations to parents. Students will: Be able to use digital storytelling software to present the content of their project-based learning experiences. Be able to use videos to show acquisition of the curriculum content.
Inspiration for Effective Writing
The content will provide participants skills and strategies to develop engaging, standards-based lessons to help students improve reading, writing and language skills in the content area.
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Introduce the basics of the Inspiration program. Introduction to the Writing process and how it works together with the Inspiration. Export Inspiration documents as HTML files and create hyperlinks along with incorporating custom and animated graphics. Introduction to the Structured Writing techniques of Kathleen McMurdo. Develop lessons to help students who have difficulty thinking in a linear fashion to learn to think in a global or visual manner.
CTEL Test Prep Review Test 1 including Essay Writing
This class will cover:
Domain 1: Language Structure and Use
Domain 2: Second-Language Development and Academic Achievement
LAUSD participants who complete the course in time to meet the deadline will qualify for a test voucher.
This class has been approved for 1 LAUSD Salary Point
Contact: rosalie.pitts@lausd.net for deadline dates.
CTEL Test Prep Review Test 2 including Essay Writing
This class will cover:
Domain 1: Assessment and English learners and part of
Domain 2: Foundations of English Language/Literacy Development and Content
Domain 3: Approaches and Methods for Instruction
LAUSD participants who complete the course in time to meet the deadline will qualify for a test voucher.
This class is approved for 2 LAUSD salary points.
Contact: rosalie.pitts@lausd.net for deadline dates.
CTEL Test Prep Review Test 3 including Essay Writing
This class will cover:
Domain 1: Culture and Cultural Diversity and their Relationship to Academic Achievement
Domain 2: Culturally Inclusive Instruction
LAUSD participants who complete the course in time to meet the deadline will qualify for a test voucher.
This class has been approved by LAUSD for 1 Salary Point
Contact: rosalie.pitts@lausd.net for deadline dates.
Essay Coaching for the CTEL Examination
This class is designed for those who have not passed the CTEL Exam. We give extra support for those who are having difficulties with the essay portion of any module of the CTEL examination.
This is class is approved for 2 LAUSD salary points.
College credit is availble for an additional fee.
The National Hispanic University is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). NHU has approval from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) to grant Multiple Subject and Single Subject Teaching Credentials (English, Math, Science, Social Science, PE, Art, and Spanish) and BCLAD/CLAD Certificates.
