ELL Professional Development Materials | English Learners Library of Resources

Stanford offers a range of learning materials useful for a variety of purposes and audiences – districts, post-secondary institutions, and professional development organizations. The following materials and tools are available through Stanford.

Materials Used in Our Courses

Materials include video of classroom teaching and lectures by prominent professors; Problem-Based Units; and online content including lesson plans, student work, and short readings.

Stanford can assist you in tailoring a learning experience that corresponds to your learning needs. You can pick and choose the topics you want to enhance/emphasize in your own syllabus or training module. Learning materials are available in the following areas (click on the link for more info):

Instructional Tools

Professor Hakuta has developed a tool for teachers called "WordSift." Users enter a word into the WordSift box and a semantic map appears with multiple synonyms for the word. It is accompanied by Google images that include the word. WordSift also features lists of the most frequently used academic words that link to the same features – you just click on a word in the list, and you get the same features as if you had entered it into WordSift –nifty! Dr. Hakuta invites you to explore this amazing tool and share it with your colleagues. There is no charge for using this tool.