Project New Horizons
 

 


New Horizons is designed to improve teacher preparedness in the targeted high need/low performing schools by providing professional development in two ways.

  1. New Horizons has instituted a professional development program that will lead to Bilingual Education (BE)/English second language (ESL) endorsement at the graduate level for in-service teachers. The professional development program translates into approximately 15 hours of course work designed specifically to address the professional development needs of school educators who are serving the needs of ELL students.
  2. New Horizons will strengthen the capacity of current BE/ESL endorsed educators by providing extended professional development training in the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model. The SIOP model provides teachers with 1) important guidelines for planning sheltered English instructional lessons; 2) effective instructional strategies for ELL students within the mainstream classroom; and 3) a resource to improve the level of instruction for ELL students within the mainstream classroom.