Professional Development

Three-Day Training Institutes

• Learn key concepts and strategies using the Nuestros Niños Professional Development Program & Literacy Games with adaptations for English learners.

Consultation (6-8 meetings)

• Bilingual consultant & teacher identify classroom goals & teacher implements effective instructional strategies from the Nuestros Niños program.

Communities of Practice (CoP) (6-8 meetings)

• Teachers use principles of Nuestros Niños Program to collaboratively design and implement a lesson plan, and receive feedback from each other.

The Nuestros Niños Program Content Areas

Early childhood education for English language learners

• Multicultural practices.
• Promoting positive peer relations.
• Family involvement: language and literacy practices at home.
• Considerations in the assessment of English language learners.

Oral language development

• Second language acquisition in young children.
• Effective teaching strategies: Talking to English language learners.

Early reading development

• Components of early reading and how they apply to bilingual children.
• Effective teaching strategies: Reading aloud to English language learners.

Early writing development

• Phases of early writing and how it happens in bilingual children.
• Effective teaching strategies to promote early writing in bilingual children