Course Overview
This course gives you a practical toolkit for reaching English language learners in your classroom. Hill and Miller break down the specific processes an ELL needs to succeed and walk you through strategies designed to work — QAR, the Thinking Language Matrix, cooperative grouping, reciprocal teaching, differentiated feedback, and structured student talk time.
Each strategy is grounded in how ELLs actually acquire language and content simultaneously, so you’re not just accommodating — you’re creating the conditions for real learning. The course also includes opportunities to evaluate these strategies through research and apply them directly to your classroom.
Coach in Residence (ML) included
Enrollment includes access to Coach in Residence, an AI coaching tool built specifically for educators working with multilingual learners, for your full semester of enrollment. As you put these strategies into practice, you can bring real classroom situations to your coach, troubleshoot what isn’t landing, and adapt each approach to your own students and content area. It’s on-demand support for the stretch between learning a strategy and making it work.
Your coaching work can also count toward the Personalized Learning assignment (#4), which asks you to describe your practical application and account for the time you spent on it. The coaching gives you exactly that material: a record of what you planned, what you adapted, and what you tried in your classroom, so you can write a fuller account of this work and the time it took. Be sure your write-up explains how your time on this assignment was spent, as the assignment specifies.
About the Authors
This is a graduate-level course intended for K–12 educators who have completed a bachelor’s degree. It is recommended that you receive board or district approval before registering with TPAI.
