CSMP

Program: Institute at Shoreline Middle School: CRLP UCSC SALT Intensive Math/Science (Secondary Academic Language Tools)

Secondary Academic Language Tools for teaching Content Area Literacy

Participating teachers will understand the role language plays in making content specific instructional materials accessible to students, including English learners at the intermediate and early intermediate levels. Teachers also learn to apply and implement the basic components of backwards design to content-specific textual analysis and lesson development. Teachers become prepared to implement instructional strategies that are designed to increase student access to and use of academic language while applying the principles of instructional sequencing and identifying opportunities to provide students with academic language practice and application.

How will English Learners Benefit from SALT?

Teachers learn how to instruct vocabulary, conventions, and linguistic features specific to their discipline strategically. As such, EL’s are able to attend to and manipulate the language while learning the content. SALT’s content-specific assessments and strategies focus on how to make academic texts more accessible to all students, particularly English Learners.

SALT Intensives

Teachers meet all day monthly with a CRLP facilitator or  to receive intensive SALT training. Teachers collaborate, dialogue, lesson plan, role model, and analyze student work monthly using, refining, crafting and becoming skillful at integrating the SALT binder and modules into their content.