Katie Toppel: Maximizing Multilingual Learners’ Language Development
How to Infuse Language Across Content Areas
Professional Learning for ELL Educators
While all students must learn how to use academic language, this task can be particularly challenging for multilingual learners who must integrate their emerging knowledge of the English language with the content information they are studying.
What instructional best practices can help strengthen content learning and accelerate language development simultaneously?
In this free on-demand webinar, Dr. Katie Toppel shares techniques and activities you can use to support students with a lens on structured output. Drawing on her experience as an English Language Development Specialist and ESOL Educator, Dr. Toppel will highlight the connective thread tying together reading, writing, speaking, and listening — and how these interconnected skills support language development alongside content learning.
View this on-demand webinar with Dr. Toppel to explore:
- Fun, interactive practice and application activities for building multilingual learners’ academic language
- Proven instructional techniques and activities for supporting students’ language development in conjunction with content knowledge
- A guide and template for planning language objectives to align with content instruction
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About Dr. Katie Toppel
Dr. Katie Toppel is a SIOP® author and an English Language Development Specialist in Oregon serving multilingual learners through co-planning, co-teaching, and small-group instruction. Dr. Toppel’s instructional background includes experience teaching kindergarten and first grade in addition to working as a K-12 Support Services Teacher at the Franconian International School in Germany. She has taught courses in the ESOL endorsement series at Portland State University and continues to support teachers in their professional learning journeys.