The MA ELPS integrate English language development and college and career readiness into one comprehensive document. In this in-depth, interactive workshop, you will gain familiarity with how the MA ELPS are organized in order to easily locate the information you need; identify benchmarks that align with your students’ goals and your lessons’ objectives; and use the MA ELPS to help plan rigorous, relevant, and engaging ESOL instruction. 

• Part 1: Independent preliminary activities in Canvas to establish a foundational understanding of the MA ELPS document in Canvas (10/15 –10/21/24)
• Part 2:  Virtual session on Zoom that focuses on how to plan units and lessons so that learning objectives connect to the MA ELP standards, benchmarks, and threads (10/22/24, 4 p.m.–6 p.m.)
• Part 3: Independent activities in Canvas to dive deeper into the document and use the MA ELPS to plan units and lessons (10/23–10/28/24)
• Part 4:  Virtual session in Zoom provides an opportunity to reflect together on the integration of the MA ELPS into the planning and delivery of ESOL instruction, with a discussion of how to use the standards to support remote instruction (10/29/24, 4 p.m.–6 p.m.)

Note: Before the course opens, registrants will receive a separate email with instructions on how to access the synchronous sessions via Zoom and how to access the self-paced modules in Canvas. If you do not receive these instructions, please check your Spam folder and/or send an email to nruskin@edc.org. You cannot access the online course from the SABES website. 

This course is not available for recordings only. If you are interested in this topic but are unable to attend all of the sessions as outlined here, please see our resource collection on the SABES website at: https://sabes.org/pd-center-resources/34.