Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners
Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (2007)

This toolkit provides a variety of materials to help language and literacy instructors who are new to serving adults and families learning English. These materials include a first-day orientation guide, lesson plans, and research-to-practice papers on English language and literacy learning.

Two-Way Immersion (TWI) Package
Center for Applied Linguistics (2007)

CAL has assembled this package to help teachers and administrators understand the essential components of dual-language education and how to implement high-quality, effective programs. This package can also be useful for practitioners looking for ways to evaluate and improve their current two-way programs.

What's Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?
Revised for 2007

What's Different about Teaching Reading to Students Learning English? provides teacher trainers with a curriculum to guide the professional development of classroom and ESL teachers who teach reading in classes where some or all of the students are English language learners.

Multimedia Rater Training Program (MRTP)
Center for Applied Linguistics (2007)

Use the MRTP to learn to rate oral proficiency (now in French, German, and Spanish), or refresh your current rating skllls.

An Insider's Guide to SIOP Coaching
by Arieh (Ari) Sherris, Thomas A. Bauder, and Lindsey Hillyard (2007)

Written for teacher educators, staff developers, and others who know the SIOP Model and are helping teachers implement it in their lessons, this guide offers practical suggestions for establishing productive coaching relationships, helping teachers with effective SIOP lesson planning, conducting observations and providing feedback, and sustaining SIOP implementation over time.

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A New Day
Refugee Families in the United States
and
Be Who You Are
Refugee Youth in the United States
Cultural Orientation Resource Center, CAL (2006)

These two new videos were created to assist refugees and refugee providers in learning about adjustment of refugee families and refugee youth to their new lives in the United States. Both are available on one VHS or DVD.