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Reading Instruction: Our Rights, Our Freedoms (Instructional Practices in Remote ELA Teaching series)
Brooke Machado teaches a remote high school level Social Studies/ELA class on the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, using close reading strategies to understand the complex text of the First Amendment. She then reflects on the lesson in a follow-up…
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ESOL Teachers' Professional Growth
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Best Practices in Adult ESOL Instruction
In this 23-minute video, you will be introduced to the critical elements of Instructional Delivery - Standard 6. Feel free to view and re-view this video as part of your work in familiarizing yourself with the MA ESOL Professional Standards and/or in preparation for Standard 6 PD.
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The Purposes and Benefits of Assessment
This brief introductory video focuses on the purposes and benefits of different forms of assessment in the ESOL classroom, with a particular focus on how each form of assessment supports teaching and learning in different ways for all stakeholders in the ESOL program.
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Using Backward Design to Develop Unit and Lesson Plans
This video provides a helpful introduction to the backward design approach to planning and explains why and how this planning tool is so powerful and effective. 
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Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teaching in Adult ESOL
This brief introductory video describes the key elements that comprise a culturally responsive and sustaining ESOL classroom. 
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From Class to Classify: Elements of Effective Vocabulary Instruction Part 2
This second of two videos provides a solid foundation to help you understand the four elements that create a positive learning environment and support effective practices for the instruction of vocabulary in the ESOL classroom.  
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From Class to Classify: Elements of Effective Vocabulary Instruction Part 1
This first of two videos provides a solid foundation to help viewers understand the four elements that create a positive learning environment and support effective practices for the instruction of vocabulary in the ESOL classroom.  
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How Do Adults Learn English? Introduction to Theories and Theorists
This brief introductory video focuses on some of the theories and approaches that have had the greatest influence on SLA as we know it today, with a particular emphasis on those that we believe have had the most impact on instructional ESOL practices.  
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The Change Agent: February 2023 "Finding our Voices" Issue Published!
  The new February 2023 issue of The Change Agent: Finding our Voices has been published! In this issue, learners share how they dug deep into themselves, reached out to get support from others, sought community resources that made a difference, and joined with others to change how…
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