Overview of Massachusetts English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) for Adult Education

he MA ELPS integrate English language development and college and career readiness into one comprehensive document. In this in-depth, interactive workshop, you will gain familiarity with how the MA ELPS are organized in order to easily locate the information you need; identify benchmarks that align with your students’ goals and your lessons’ objectives; and use the MA ELPS to help plan rigorous, relevant, and engaging ESOL instruction. 

• Part 1: Independent preliminary activities in Canvas to establish a foundational understanding of the MA ELPS document in Canvas 
• Part 2:  Virtual session on Zoom that focuses on how to plan units and lessons so that learning objectives connect to the MA ELP standards, benchmarks, and threads 
• Part 3: Independent activities in Canvas to dive deeper into the document and use the MA ELPS to plan units and lessons 
• Part 4:  Virtual session in Zoom provides an opportunity to reflect together on the integration of the MA ELPS into the planning and delivery of ESOL instruction, with a discussion of how to use the standards to support remote instruction 

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