Code of Ethics Part Six: Confidentiality

In part six of Code of Ethics, host Chris Kane sits down with Arkansas educators to discuss confidentiality in school settings. Teachers have access to a variety of private student information and must maintain the highest levels of confidentiality to ensure a professional and trustworthy environment. Participants in this course will view animated scenarios that demonstrate the importance of confidentiality.

Busing on the Lookout - Truckers Against Trafficking

Human trafficking—or modern-day slavery—is the exploitation of human beings through force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of commercial sex or forced labor. There are an estimated 40 million victims of human trafficking globally, including thousands of school-age children in the United States and Canada. As half of American and Canadian school children ride the bus daily, some victims will continue attending school during the day—and riding the school bus—even while they are being trafficked or groomed at night.

When building an army to fight a crime like human trafficking, the bus industry has a key role to fill. Through their sheer numbers, extensive travels, and the nature of their jobs, members of the bus industry—commercial and school—are uniquely positioned to provide an extra set of eyes and ears for law enforcement in recovering victims and arresting traffickers.

Busing on the Lookout: School Bus Drivers on the Lookout to Combat Human Trafficking

As a school transportation employee, you are in a critical position to recognize signs of human trafficking and take action to end this horrible practice. By taking this course, you are equipping yourself with the knowledge, skills, and resources you need to keep your students safe. 

Truckers Against Trafficking, an organization dedicated to ending human trafficking, realizes the impact that local school bus drivers can have in the fight for human dignity and urges bus drivers to join in the effort to end trafficking. Kendis Paris, Executive Director for Truckers Against Trafficking, partners with an executive director of school transportation, a detective, and a survivor of human trafficking to bring you information on signs of human trafficking to look for and expert guidance on what you should do if you witness a suspected incident of human trafficking.   

This course meets the requirements of Arkansas Act 765 of 2017. 

Model for Assessment and Service Delivery for ELL Students

This course provides a general overview of the process of assessing and delivering service to students who are English Language Learners. It was designed by Andrea Martin, Director of Instruction and Federal Programs at Green Forest School District and filmed December 19, 2012 at the AETN studios in Conway. Information presented includes the requirements of a Home Language Survey and placement assessment, as well as requirements for other components of language assistance programs such as assessments for progress monitoring. 

The Challenges of Learning English as a Second Language

With the increasing number of English language learners (ELLs) in K-12 schools, today's teachers have a new responsibility - serving as models of English for ELLs. Most teachers, however, are unfamiliar with aspects of English that are most challenging to ELLs. In this course, Dr. Keith Folse, Associate Professor of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at the University of Central Florida, identifies these challenges using examples of common questions and mistakes made by ELLs. He provides explanations and effective options for answering difficult questions.

This presentation was recorded during the SETESOL conference in Rogers, Arkansas on October 8-11, 2014.

Close Reading of Complex Texts

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts requires students "to read increasingly complex texts with growing independence." When teachers understand what makes a text complex, they can better support their students in reading them. In this course, Dr. Doug Fisher examines the quantitative and qualitative factors of text complexity, as well as the ways in which readers can be matched with texts and tasks. He also examines how close reading of complex texts scaffolds students' understanding. 

This presentation was recorded during the SETESOL conference in Rogers, Arkansas on October 8-11, 2014.

Techniques for Explaining Vocabulary to English Language Learners

In order to improve their second language proficiency, English language learners (ELLs) need a solid knowledge of vocabulary. Dr. Keith Folse identifies the struggles ELLs face with learning English vocabulary and the challenges teachers face with incorporating vocabulary into instruction. Throughout the course, he demonstrates several strategies and activities for learning vocabulary words.

This presentation was recorded during the SETESOL conference in Rogers, Arkansas on October 8-11, 2014.

Sample Lessons: Diverse Learners in Sheltered English Immersion Classrooms - Elementary

In this course, Dr. Anastasia Filipek integrates language into her content instruction while teaching a lesson on colonization to a fourth grade class. After implementing teaching strategies and classroom management techniques in a real classroom, Dr. Filipek discusses them in depth with Stephanie Flinn, an ESL teacher in Fayetteville Public Schools.

This course was recorded in Fayetteville Public Schools on November 10-12, 2014.

Sample Lessons: Diverse Learners in Sheltered English Immersion Classrooms - Middle School

In addition to language acquisition itself, English Language Learners (ELLs) also face the daunting task of continuing to learn in the content areas while being provided instruction in a language that they have not fully acquired. Access the Core’s lead educational consultant, Dr. Anastasia Filipek, provides demonstration lessons featuring teaching strategies that help ELLs to thrive in the content areas. She models learning activities and direct instruction techniques that are accessible to students in sheltered ESL environments while also integrating support for language acquisition.

This course, which features footage from a real sixth grade science classroom, contains Dr. Filipek’s model lesson on the circulatory system. It was taped in Fayetteville Public Schools on November 10-12, 2014.

Linguistic Accommodations for English Language Learners

Welcome to Linguistic Accommodations for English Language Learners (ELLs), a course offered by the Center on Instruction. The main learning outcomes of the course are: describe the characteristics of the ELL population, tell the differences between models and types of ELL programs, use the state's English language proficiency standards to identify the needs of an ELL student, and define and apply the concept of linguistic accommodations.