This eWorkshop is designed for both science educators and language educators who support multilingual learners in science classrooms. This eWorkshop will provide multiple strategies for engaging multilingual students in the central work of sensemaking in science. Through video, interactions, and reflection activities, science and language educators will learn to: 

•    Recognize the critical role of eliciting student ideas in science teaching and learning 

•    Identify considerations for selecting science phenomena that are relevant to students and effective for teaching science ideas 

•    Support student agency and authority in reasoning about phenomena 

•    Use teaching strategies that promote language development in the context of sense making. 

Access course:

Washington State educators and administrators access the WIDA Self- Paced eWorkshops via the WIDA Secure Portal.

 If you do not have a WIDA Secure Portal account, follow the steps below:

1. Use your district email address and email WIDA Client Services Center at help@wida.us and ask for access to the WIDA Secure Portal.
2. WIDA will send you an access link within 24 hours. Set up your login username and password.
3. Access the WIDA Secure Portal.
4. Click on the “WIDA eLearning Center” tile and that will take you to the eLearning “Dashboard.”
5. Scroll to the Self-Paced eWorkshop tile and click on the course link OR use the left-hand navigation bar and click on “Courses.”
6. Select the course and begin.
7. Finish the course and download the WIDA course completion certificate for your records.

Get clock hours:

1. OSPI will receive verification from WIDA that you have completed the course.
2. Login to your pdEnroller account, go to your Events, click on this event, then go to the Clock Hour Checklist and take the survey.
3. Clock hours will be automatically uploaded to your OSPI eCertification account within two weeks of completing the survey. You will receive an email from pdEnroller when the clock hours have been posted to your OSPI eCertification file.