ACT-ESL: Eligibility
Are you eligible for the ACT-ESL project?
- You are an endorsed teacher (6-12 grades) in math, science, social studies, or English/language arts.
- You teach in the Chesterfield County Public Schools.
- You will be teaching a credit-bearing course in your endorsed area with (an) ELL student (s).
- You are interested in helping your English language learners.
- You are available for the summer Institute, follow-up classroom applications, and a post-seminar.
Special note. Once you decide to participate in the one-week summer training, you also agree to respond to three classroom observations in the following year (two in the fall and one in the spring) and to attend a post-training seminar.
Incentives
- Stipend for summer Institute (30 hrs.) and a post-seminar (4 hrs.): $24 per hour
- Option to transfer summer training hours to a graduate course (TEDU 500: ESL Method in Secondary Content Area) at VCU the following summer