Maximize Your Time! How to Be an Effective (Overloaded) EL Teacher Video

What Stresses You Out? Paperwork Teacher conferences and collaboration Teacher training and professional development Lesson preparation Making time to see students in all your schools Turn and tell someone at your table what stresses you out.

About Us Etowah County Schools in Gadsden, AL 9,000 students, 21 schools Approximately 250 EL students in 17 schools Three EL teachers  DeAnna Buhl  Amanda Foss  Holly Hubbard

Three Ways to Maximize Your Time and Resources Technology Community Partnerships New Opportunities

EL Website Professional Development Videos  Understanding the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs Teacher Report Checkout List for Resources in our EL office Bilingual reader videos Wiki for projects Video QR code

Internet Resources Google Docs  Lesson plans  Schedules  Anecdotal Records  Information Collection: supply lists, iPad apps, state data compilation, summer camp registration lists

Google Doc Example

More Internet and Tech Resources Dropbox  Access to files or documents from cell phone, iPad, laptop, etc.  Project Collaboration iPads: Evernote, reading and math apps, pictures, “library at your fingertips” iPad video

Community Partnerships Junior Achievement: used during summer program Churches Hispanic Outreach Groups

University Partnerships University of Alabama at Birmingham Project EDGE  Content Area teachers to be trained in Teaching English as a Second Language Project HEART  Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Second Language  10 will have finished by December, 17 have taken classes  Summer Program

New Opportunities Summer Program  3 years, started with help from UAB  Entering K attend; helps with school transition  Keeps students’ skills fresh over the summer  Hands-on, fun, engaging  Loosens up older students PD Classroom Conferences

How Can this Work for Me? Don’t think anything is impossible. Collaborate! Find ways to solve your problems creatively. Ask for forgiveness instead of permission.