Pursue Your TESOL Certification

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The College of New Rochelle will be sponsoring a NYS-subsidized Tuition Grant Program: Clinically Rich-Intensive Teacher Institute (CR-ITI), with classes starting mid-winter at Dutchess BOCES. This is a program that is mostly-funded by NYSED and allows teachers to become certified to teach English Language Learners within the public school classroom. For more details about this program view the program flyer here or their website.

There is an Information Session on January 17th at 4:00pm at Dutchess BOCES, 5 BOCES Road, Salt Point Center Building, Room 137, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603.

Seal of Bilteracy

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Happy New Year!

As a reminder, Seal of Biliteracy District Notification Forms are due to NYSED this Thursday, 1/10/19. The form can be downloaded here. For more information about the New York State Seal of Biliteracy (NYSSB) please visit their website here.

The following new HV RBERN workshops have been scheduled. Please click on the links below for more information and to register:

Integrated Co-Teaching for English Language Learners
3/1/19, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES
Through an interactive presentation approach, video demonstrations and hands-on activities, participants will gain a practical understanding of the 6 co-teaching models, using Marilyn Friend's and Honigsfeld & Dove's frameworks for collaborative instruction.

A Teacher’s Guide to Migrant Students, Trauma & Social Emotional Learning
4/4/19, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, Orange-Ulster BOCES
This workshop will build participants’ awareness of the various traumas and stresses that can affect many of our students, specifically undocumented migrant students.
 

Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Happy Holidays

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Greetings!

We're pleased to offer the following new workshop:

Teaching Reading to English Language Learners: What's Different?
2/11/19, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, Southern Westchester BOCES
3/12/19, 9:00 - 3:00 pm, Rockland BOCES
Participants will explore what is different about teaching the key components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension) to English language learners, how to create opportunities to develop oral language, and strategies for before, during and after reading supports.

To view all of our current workshops, please click here. 

LIU Hudson announces a fully online course for the Spring Semester, 2019:TED 650-001: Second Language Acquisition, 3 graduate credits. This course would be an excellent choice for classroom teachers who have multilingual learners and would fulfill the CTLE Language Acquisition hours. Offered for reduced tuition. You can view the flyer here. 

We wish you a happy holiday season and best wishes for the new year!