Professional Development: 1. WestED -Improving education through research, development, and service http://www.wested.

org/ WestEd is an agency group that meets the needs of the teachers and customers through consulting and technical assistance, evaluation, policy analysis, professional development, and research. This agency group provides resources and help to teachers who need professional development when working with ESL students. On their site, there are tons of resources provided for teachers. They have online seminar for teachers to attend. Their online seminar help educators integrate instruction for and assessment of English language development and English language arts standards. They provide numerous projects and services that help address the dual needs of students who must master academic content and the English language simultaneously. They not only focus on ESL students but they also provide lots of programs for students in all different levels. The have Reading Apprenticeship program that helps students learn how to read and motivate them to read. They also have The Program for Infant/Toddler Care which provides a training system for infant and toddler caregivers. WestEd provide services to not just for teachers but for parents and students as well. This is website can be useful for a teacher of ELLs because they can attend lots of workshops that can help with their professional development. Some of the workshops are Teaching English Learners and Students with Learning Difficulties in the Inclusive Classroom and Beyond the Workshop: Interactive Online Learning for Charter School Teachers. This site provides lot of resources such as an online forum that other teachers can go on to help other teachers think of ideas or for support when working with ELLs. They also have articles about integrating learning contents for ELLs students that teachers can read. I think this site is great for teachers because they provide lots of help in all domains and they have lots of resources available for teachers to use. 2. The International Teacher Development Institute http://itdi.pro/itdihome/index.php The International Teacher Development Institute is created for teachers by teachers. Its mission is to help all teachers grow and improve education in the process by providing ongoing professional development opportunities for teachers around the world that are meaningful, accessible and affordable for all, within a safe, supportive online community. The website offers free Global Webinars, where teachers can interact with leading experts in ESL and EFL. There are blogs where teachers can read to help find strategies or tips to help them be a better teacher. The website also offers online courses that teachers can enroll. One online course is Teacher Development and English For Teachers. This site provides lot of teachers support because everything on this site is created by teachers.

This website is great for teachers this website offers lots resources for teachers. Every two weeks they will have teachers from all over the world to come together and discuss about one topic. This allows teachers to see the different variety of ideas and strategies that they can use in their own classroom. The online classes can help with their professional development learning. Teachers can watch the webinar at their own convenient which is great for teachers who doesnt have time to travel. It can help with their professional development. Overall, this website is great for ESL teacher or teachers who are new at teaching ESL students. They can find valuable information as well as support on this website. 3. Animated Teacher Training http://www.in2english.com.cn/media_file/flashs/1859/index.swf This website provides animated modules with text and audio support to help ESL/EFL teachers learn how to teach. This websites has three modules that help ESL teacher learn how to be an effective teacher in their classroom. The modules go over different classroom activities that teachers can do and questioning techniques that can be helpful in the classroom. This website is great for teachers because it helps ESL teachers learn how to teach ESL Students. These modules can be very helpful for first year teachers. Teachers can watch the animated modules to help increase their teaching skills. They provide information on questioning strategies which is very important when teaching ESL students. Teachers need to learn how to give students time to answers those questions as well as learn how to not embarrass their students when they get it wrong. The modules are short and easy to follow. 4. EFL Teaching Recipes http://teachingrecipes.com This website is an extremely accessible site where ESL/EFL teachers can share their lessons, including video and images. Their main focus is for teachers to help other teachers by posting lesson plans and ideas on how to get students participating, practicing and producing language in the EFL classroom. Teachers can upload their lesson plans or ideas and other teachers can follow. There are so many new teachers constantly entering the English teaching profession. They need, as do even more experienced teachers, ideas for their classrooms. There are over hundreds of lesson plans and ideas that teachers can read and incorporate that into their own classroom. This website can be helpful for teachers because everything on that site is contributed by other teachers around the world. There are lots of lesson plans ideas and classroom activities that other teachers use in their own classroom those ESL teachers can use in their own lesson plans. This site is absolutely free to join. The online community is vast in numbers. Teachers can communicate with other teachers and exchange ideas. Overall, this website is great for ESL teacher because there is lots of helpful information they can find and use to encourage and motivate their ESL students to learn in class.

Content-Area Instruction Website: 5. Colorin Colorado http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/content/ This website provides resources for ESL teachers that they can use in their classroom when teaching their ESL students. The strategies offers in this website suggest ways in which teachers can provide their ELLs with additional language support in learning content areas such as math, science, social studies, and language arts. They have various strategies in all different content teaching that teacher can learn about. For each link under each content teaching, they provide webcasts, videos, and resource books that teachers can read more about to help with their professional development. Parents can also go onto this site to find additional resources and help when teaching their kids at home and helping with them with homework. All the information provided on this site can be read in English or in Spanish. This is a great resource website for teachers and parents because they offer strategies and help in all learning content. Teachers can watch the webcasts or learn about the different teaching styles they can use to help their ESL students. They have classroom activities worksheets that teachers can print out and use in their classroom. They provide lots of information such as ELL Assessment, Reading and Writing Instruction for ELLs, Special Education with ELLs, Technology in the ELL Classroom and many others valuable resources that can be found on this site. 6. Teaching English Games http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/ This website has lots of great ideas and games that teachers or parents to use to encourage and motivate their ESL students. This website was created for teachers to find ideas and inspirations to make their ESL teaching easier and more fun. This site provides resources to help teachers motivate their students and help make their lessons more interesting and enjoyable. On this website there are ESL Games, Short English Stories, ESL Songs, ESL Plays, ESL Flashcards and ESL Resources that teachers can learn more about. The games and information provided can be used for all age groups. There is also a section for parents who home school their kids to help make their teaching more fun and enjoyable. This website is great for teachers because they can find fun ideas to incorporate into their lesson plan. The interactive games can make learning easier for ESL students by incorporating games, plays, or short stories to help motivate them to learn. The games can also increase participation in the classroom as well because when students find something interesting, they will be more likely to participate. This site is helpful for teachers because they can access the materials easily at home and this site has tons of ideas and activities that teachers can use in their

classroom. There are also additional resources such as books and games that parents can order to help their ESL kids learn at home and help increase their English. Professional Organizations: 7. TESOL International Association http://www.tesol.org/ TESOL is an organization that is run by volunteers to help teachers improve their teaching and learning. This site provides lots of resources for teachers such as books, newsletter, and journals. There are also online courses and virtual seminars for teacher to attend to increase their teaching when teaching ESL students. Their online training helps teachers learn how to work with students with learning disabilities or ESL students in general. There are also conventions that teachers can attend to help with their professional development. This group is a great interest group for teachers to join to enhance their teaching skills and knowledge in the education world. This site is great for educators and teachers because they provide lots of valuable resources that can help teachers develop their teaching skills when working with ESL students. There are seminars that teacher can attend. They have lots of events on this website that teachers can attend as well. This site is also great for teachers who are looking for additional training because they have lots of online training in different professional development field. Teachers can use this site for guidance for strategies to use in their classroom. 8. NABE-National Association for Bilingual Education http://www.nabe.org NABE is an organization that focuses on educating teachers about being an effective teacher when teaching ESL students. They provide lots of research and professional development for teachers to educate themselves on being more diverse in the classroom and to help bilingual students succeed. They have conferences every year and teachers can attend to enhance their knowledge. They provide videos that teachers can watch to get inspired and to see how important it is for us to do the best we can to help out ESL students succeed. They focus on the importance of having diversity in the classroom as well and provide information for teachers on how to increase diversity. This organization is great for teachers to join because they provide lots of support and valuable resources for teachers. This group holds conferences every year and it is well known. They provide lots of professional development for teachers. Teachers can communicate with other teachers in this organization to get ideas or strategies that they can use in their classroom when working with ESL students. There are a lot of publications and resources that teachers can read to enhance their learning and knowledge. It teaches the teachers the importance of helping ESL students succeed.

Website for Parents: 9. AEA 267- Area Education Agency Leadership and Learning

https://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/ell/resources/parents/ This website is great for educators, parents, and the communities, also serving an ultimate goal--to improve student learning. This site provides parents to find more information to support their child's learning in Spanish and English. There are links that parents can go on to learn how to support their childs learning such as homework tips and assisting in reading. The sites allow parents to become more involved in their childs school life. It is important for parents to learn and be more educated in their childs school life so they can provide support and motivate their child to do well in school. This site is great for parents because it introduce the parents to the idea that Learning English can be fun and also done in your home. The website is filled with English as Second Language educational sites. Many of these sites help students to learn through activities, games, songs, quizzes, puzzles and other similar types of learning tools. The educational interactive websites can make learning fun for students and parents can help their students learn at home. Parents can download booklets in Spanish and English to help their Child in learning content area subjects such as Science and Math The site provides links to sites where families can information from around the globe in 28 languages. 10. The Alliance for Multicultural Community Service http://www.allianceontheweb.org/community.html This organizations primary focus is involving families from a variety of diverse backgrounds. This organization offers families community programs, drivers education, adult literacy and ESL classes, and international projects. This organization is able to communicate in 75 different languages, offer support to families with bilingual staff, and class for adult to help build their language proficiency in English. they offer adult education classes. They also offer drivers education for adults and students. This can help parents who are immigrants that dont have access to a car or someone who can help them learn how to drive. This website also offers after school programs so parents can take ESL classes while their children are at school. They dont have to worry about finding someone to watch over their children. They also provides youth with homework and tutorial assistance by college-student mentors, computer lab, financial literacy classes, life skills education, recreational activities, community services projects and cultural opportunities. There is also a section for employment opportunities which can be very helpful for parents who cant find a job. They can go on this website to help them find jobs that can be available for them.

This website is great for parents from diverse backgrounds because they can find lots of valuable information to help them learn English. This organization help parents be able to learn English as adult schools as well as help their child succeed in schools. They have after school programs and tutorials that can be available for their children while they attend adult school. Helping adults learn to speak, read, and write English. This is crucial to their childrens success in school because parents need to be able to communicate and know some English to help their children at home when they need help. Overall, this website is great for parents who want additional learning in English especially those that are from diverse backgrounds. Government portal: 11. Texas English Language Learner Portal http://www.elltx.org/index.html This website is great for students and teachers. It was created by the TEA. They provide valuable resources that can help students and teachers such as practice assessments, teacher certification, professional resources and parent resources. There is lots of helpful information that can help teachers be effective teachers when teaching ESL students. Teachers can go to this site to find helpful tips on how to incorporate different learning strategies in their curriculum. Students go to this site to find additional practice assessments. There is a section for professional development that teachers can go on to find PowerPoints and presentations to enhance their learning. This would be useful for a teacher of ELLs because it provides many best practices and standards that an ELL teacher should be aware of. This website can be helpful for not just for teachers but parents and students as well. The website provides classroom videos that students can watch to enhance their learning in certain classroom curriculum. They have tons of resources for teachers to use that can be incorporate into their teachings. Parents can also go onto this site to find resources that can help them at home to be more active in their childs learning. Websites for Students: 12. BrainPop ESL http://www.brainpopesl.com/ BrainPOP ESL is an educational resource featuring games, lesson plans, activities and animated movies. BrainPOP ESL is designed for all English Language Learners (ELL) including: students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), English speakers of other languages (ESOL). It is a comprehensive tool for educators teaching English as a Second Language. BrainPOP ESL focuses on reading, writing, vocabulary building, grammar and pronunciation. The students can go on this site during class to learn about content such as grammar or learning how to do math. This site is great for teachers and students. There are free lesson plans and classroom activities that teachers can use in their classroom.

This site is great for ESL students because there are lots of animated videos activities for the students to go on to learn about the learning content. The students can use this site when they are at school or at home. This site can help them learn English and other content area by playing games or watching videos. The interactive games will make learning fun and the students will be motivated to learn at the same time. 13. ESL Games World-English Fun Games for Teachers and Students http://www.eslgamesworld.com/ This website is dedicated to helping teachers by providing fun interactive games for classrooms, PowerPoint games and templates, and fun learning games for ESL students. This site has a variety of games that teachers can incorporate into their lesson plans. There are games to help students learn how to read, learn about grammar, and vocabulary. There are lots of options that teachers can pick and choose from. This site is also for students as well. They have fun learning games to help students learn English, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary. This site can be useful for teachers and students because teachers can make learning fun by incorporating some of the interactive games in their classroom. Students will be more interested in learning when they play a fun game or participate in a fun learning activity. This is also great for students because they can go onto this site at home for additional learning and for help. They can play grammar games, vocabulary building games, or math games at home. The site is very easy to use and there are different levels that students can pick that correspond to their academic level. 14. FunBrain www.Funbrain.com This site is devoted to helping students develop skills in math, reading, and literacy for ESL students. This site is entirely free and they offer lots of educational games, online books and comics. The materials provided on this site are for students in pre-k-8th grade. There are different categories on this site that students can click on to help students learn. ESL students can develop their math skills by playing math games or play reading games to develop their reading skills. This site is useful because it provides fun interactive learning games for students to go on to learn at school or at home. There are games that help them with vocabulary building or math games that helps them with learning how to add or subtract. It ranges from pre-k to 8th grade so students from different age levels can go onto this site. Students can also develop their reading skills by reading comics and books provided on this site.

15. Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students http://a4esl.org This website has tons of quizzes, tests, and exercises to help ESL students learn English. There are quizzes for learning grammar or vocabulary words. The students can pick difficulty level ranges from easy to difficult. There are also crossword puzzles that students can do to help them increase their grammar and vocabulary skills. This site has bilingual quizzes with over 15 quizzes in different languages. There is also a section with videos that students can watch to help them learn about grammar. The videos help students learn how to pronounce words and letter. It emphasizes on learning grammar and the visual provided in the videos help students get a better understanding on the words or phrases. This site can be useful for ESL students because this can be used as a study tool for them. They can go onto this site to help them learn about grammar such as verb tense, sentence structures, adjectives, and/or verbs. They can also learn different vocabulary words through the quizzes and puzzles provided on this site. The teachers can also print those puzzles out to use it in their classroom. This site is also great for ESL because they have bilingual quizzes in over 15 different languages. Students who want to learn a different language can use this site to learn Japanese, Arabic, Polish, Chinese, etc. 16. ESL GamesPlus http://www.eslgamesplus.com/ ESL Games Plus offers interactive online games for learning and teaching English as a Second Language. The learning games are suitable for all students. There are activities for teaching and practicing English grammar, vocabulary, sentences, listening and pronunciation skills. By playing the fun educational games, students learn English vocabulary, sentence structures, grammar, listening, pronunciation and phonics. This is easy to use because they have different sections that students can pick and choose to learn about different things. They have a section for games, different learning topics, videos, and printable worksheets. The interactive games are fun and easy to understand. This site is great for ESL students because they over lots of learning topics to help them learn English. If they want to learn about the different holidays or fruits and vegetables, there is a section for those topics. They can play interactive games to help them learn sentence structures, vocabulary, or phonics. This site also provides videos for students to watch and learn as well. If students dont to play games or watch videos online, they can print out worksheets. Teachers can also print these worksheets out to use it in their classroom as well.