ESL/CivicsLink Training Module

Goals of Training

The purpose of this ESL/CivicsLink training module is to:

• ask participants to reflect on others' and their own instructional practice
• consider how ESLCivicsLink might help them in their classroom practice
• consider: "Why ESL/CivicsLink?"- provide teachers with background information - rationale, theoretical background, general principles of development, this includes (a) needs anaysis, (b) benefits of online professional development, and (c) concepts of project-based learning
• go through the ESL/CivicsLink Tour to familiarize participants with the ESL/CivicsLink structure and layout
• walk participants through the Orientation Unit (free trial registration required) to familiarize them with how to work through a unit.
• discuss and prepare participants to negotiate implementation roadblocks
• examine the three different study models for using ESL/CivicsLink
• give teachers model of goals assessment