TASK West Cohort

The TASK West grant has been awarded to 25 teachers from Hillsboro, Forest Grove, Beaverton, and West Linn-Wilsonville school districts who are teaching in classrooms with considerable numbers of students acquiring English as a second language. This enthusiastic and hard-working group of educators has just finished the first of six academic courses toward the ESOL endorsement, which will be added to their licensure. A special focus of this grant is financial support to develop outreach projects for the involvement of parents, families and communities of English Language Learners in student learning and school-wide improvement. Previous LC ESOL program grants of this type have been highly effective in developing creative ways of inviting family and community contributions to students' learning.

Cohort Schedule

Spring 2005: ESOL 607 - Language Acquisition and Development

Fall 2005: ESOL 602 - Focus on Culture and Community

Spring 2006: ESOL 603 - Strategies and Materials for Teaching Content

Spring 2006: ESOL 600 - Historical and Legal Foundations

Fall 2006: ESOL 601 - Language and Literacy in Educating ESOL Students

Spring 2007: ESOL 604 - Assessment and Evaluation

Summer 2007: ESOL 605 - ESOL Practicum

This schedule is subject to change.