About
Dr. Aileen Hale
English for Special Purposes - Custom Design Courses
www.Platzi.com English Academy https://platzi.com/cursos/
English for Medical Purposes
Workplace English for refugees and immigrants
Business English, English for Tourism, and Medical English courses
Design English for Academic Success
Service Learning (SL)
Design international service-learning projects for K-12 students, teachers, and university professors
Conduct SL teacher training
Critical Thinking for teachers and students (http://www.oas.org/en/)
Created “Critical Thinking for Teachers” radio program and teaching materials
*To request faculty or teacher training, please contact Dr. Hale.
1. Curriculum Design for Online Courses
Modeling online PD courses: (*These are Asynchronistic online PD Courses; 1 credit; 15 hours)
• EDPD52366 - Engaging and Motivating Your ELL Students for Academic Success (*Created by Dr. Aileen Hale, COO of TTELT)
• EDPD55189 - Memories & Dreams: Honoring your Past--Designing your Future - A Social Emotional Learning Project (*Created by Dr. Aileen Hale, COO of TTELT)
2. Academic Success for English Language Learners
This training provides educators with specific techniques and educational tools to further the academic success of English language learners. Methods presented build on first language background knowledge, to enhance academic reading and writing skills and overall language proficiency. Bilingual methods and activities are presented, to build on first language competencies.
3. English Language Training and Curriculum Development for Educators working with Refugee and Immigrant Populations
This teacher training is specifically designed to assess the academic needs of refugee and immigrant populations; collaboratively develop and enhance existing EL curriculum, to improve English language learners’ academic success; and to train teachers with age-appropriate, innovative and engaging materials, to meet the needs of their EL refugee and immigrant student populations for the workplace.
4. Experiential Learning & Critical Thinking Skills
This training assists educators with the development of experiential learning activities, for deeper engagement of students and the development of critical thinking skills. Hands-on experiential and service-learning activities are shared, to bring learning to life and think critically about serving in our communities, as a means of language acquisition. Course participants develop specific ideas for their content areas, to enhance engagement within their existing curriculum.
5. Learning Language Through Music
Music has been a means of learning language throughout history and across cultures. Children and adults, alike, subconsciously absorb many aspects of language, such as grammatical concepts, verb tenses, and phonetic awareness, through the integration of music. This engaging training imparts hands-on techniques for all ages to effectively gain language proficiency, focusing on listening and writing skills. Participants select music, which is age and content appropriate for their students and which connects to their curriculum. Participants then learn techniques to integrate the music into active language acquisition. *This training may be applied to all languages, and bilingually as well.