Cobb County ESOL

What is Literacy?

To answer this question, explore the information in the links below:

Literacy Brainstorm Activity: Download A B C BRAINSTORM

Video: Why Is Reading So Hard? Download Why Is Reading So Hard_

Video: Reading Inspires Children: Download Reading Inspires Children

Video: Literacy Empowers:  Download Literacy Empowers (Illiteracy Awareness Documentary)

Kuzmich DTQ Presentation: Download Literacy and CC Kuzmich 2011

Video: Literacy and the Common Core: Download Literacy in Other Disciplines

Video: What Does It mean To Be Literate in the 21st Century?: Download What Does it Mean to be Literate in the 21st Century_ (short version 8 min)-1

The WIDA Can Do Descriptors provide a wonderful way for teachers to understand language proficiciency for ALL students. Below is a tool by grade level grade level cluster that teachers can use to place and plan for differentiated instruction that focuses on language.

Can Do Descriptors Tool 9 - 12:  Download 9-12-can-dos-for-language-objectives

Can Do Descriptors Tool 6 - 8: Download 6-8-can-dos-for-language-objectives

Can Do Descriptors Tool 3 - 5: Download 3-5-can_dos_for_language-objectives

Can Do Descriptors Tool 1 - 2: Download 1-2-can_dos_for_language-objectives

ACCESS Tier Placement Video

Click here to watch a video from WIDA on determining ACCESS Tier placement of students.

Displaced in the New South

 

Click below to download the video:

Download Displaced in the New South

The Entabulator

Is this how YOU sound to your students?

 

Download Entabulator

Download Entabulator copy

McGurk Effect

McGurk Effect: Should you believe what you see or what you hear?

 

 

 

Check out this story from NPR.
The video in the story is played through youtube, so click the video below in case the video player in the story is blocked:

Download Try The McGurk Effect! - Horizon_ Is Seeing Believing_ - BBC Two

Not on the Test

See below for the information presented at the 2011 - 2012 ESOL Pre-planning Training Sessions.

Tom Chapin's Video "Not on the Test"

 

 

 

 

Black in Latin America - Mexico & Peru

Watch the full episode. See more Black in Latin America.

 

In Mexico and Peru Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of the significant numbers of black people—the two countries together received far more slaves than did the United States —brought to these countries as early as the 16th and 17th centuries, and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru.

 

 

1066 A.D.

Click here to download the video from the History Teachers: Download William the Conqueror (_Sexyback_ by Justin Timberlake)

For more great videos, go to the History Teachers Channel. This channel is a website hosted by youtube, so you must access it from outside of the district.

The Super Translator

 

Click here to download the video: Download Catherine_Tate_Show-7_Language_Interpreter_1

Light History of the English Language

Dr. Elliot Engel's lecture, "Light History of the English Language," reveals why the English language evolved in such a fascinating way from the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, to the invading French. Click the link to find out more about Dr. Engel.

Dr. Engel has provided great lectures on American and English authors. Click on "Products" to see the list of author names. Many of his lectures are available on www.youtube.com

 

Black in Latin America - Haiti and the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided

Watch the full episode. See more Black in Latin America.

  

Black in Latin America is a new four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America. This is the 11th and latest production from renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., writer and presenter of the acclaimed PBS series African American Lives 1 (2006), Oprah’s Roots (2007), African American Lives 2 (2008), Looking for Lincoln (2009) and most recently Faces of America (2010).  

Black in Latin America is the third of a trilogy that began in 1999 with the broadcast of Professor Gates first series for public television, Wonders of the African World, an exploration of the relationship between Africa and the New World, a story he continued in 2004 with America Beyond the Color Line, a report on the lives of modern-day African Americans. Black In Latin America, premiering nationally Tuesdays April 19, 26 and May 3, 10, 2011 at 8 p.m. on PBS, examines how Africa and Europe came together to create the rich cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The first episode, posted above, explores race and identity in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Click here for the link to the video on the PBS website: Full Episode: Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided.

 

Black in Latin America - Brazil: A Racial Paradise?

Watch the full episode. See more Black in Latin America.

 In Brazil: A Racial Paradise?, Professor Gates delves behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this ‘rainbow nation’ is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.

 

 

Black in Latin America - Cuba: The Next Revolution

In Cuba: The Next Revolution, the culture, religion, politics and music of this island are inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in 1959.

Watch the full episode. See more Black in Latin America.

 

 

Video - Media Matters: Winner of the Immigration Award

Very powerful video that clearly illustrates the struggles that our ESOL students face in their new country.

 

For the website: http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/9/immersion

 

Library of Videos on Immigration

Click the links below to see a library of videos on immigration and race:

Immigrants from Europe and Scandanavia

Immigrants from Asian Countries

Immigrants from the Middle East

Immigrants from Latin America

Race and Identity

 

 

Pinky Show

The Pinky Show is a non-profit organization that has created an original super lo-tech, hand-drawn educational project (by cats!). The focus is on information & ideas that have been misrepresented, suppressed, ignored, or otherwise excluded from mainstream discussion, and is done in a way that is informal and easy-to-understand. Pinky Show materials are available for free online.

 Download How to Solve Illegal Immigration

Did you know?

Video shared in class:

Download Did_You_Know_2.0

Carlos from Sprayberry

Carlos, an ESOL student from Sprayberry High School, shares his thoughts on ESOL. Carlos came from Ecuador to Cobb in 2007 and was placed in the IEL (Intensive English Language) Program for newcomers. For the past two years he has been enrolled in Honors and AP courses and is now poised to graduate high school with a 3.93 GPA. He is a remarkable success story.

Carlos unveiled this video during a Leadership Luncheon with GaDOE staff, ESOL coordinators, and local school administrators from around the state at the KSU ESOL Conference on February 9, 2011.

 

Coming soon! Spanish Version (Carlos is currently working on a version in Spanish that teachers may share with their ESOL students and parents.)

We are quite sure that you are as impressed with this young man as we are, so sign in and post a comment for Carlos and all other ESOL students who work hard to achieve their dreams!

Introduction to WIDA English Proficiency Standards

The WIDA Consortium has provided an online tutorial overview of the WIDA English Proficiency Standards.

 

An Introduction to the SIOP Model

A video introduction to SIOP

 

Video - ESOL Endorsement: Linguistics

Click below to view the videos shared with the ESOL Endorsement Linguistics Class:

From Frasier, episode: "An Affair to Forget"

 

From I Love Lucy, episode: "Paris, At Last"

 

Video - ESOL Endorsement: Linguistics

Click here to view a ten-minute introduction to linguisitcs and Chomsky's Theory of Universal Grammar: