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. 

This course is open to K-12 Washington public school educators only.   Private schools who have opted into Federal Title III services may also take this course.  Contact your school administrator for details.  

Access course:

Washington State public school educators and approved private school educators  access the WIDA Self- Paced Workshops 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. Select the “Professional Learning” path.
5. Scroll to the Self-Paced Workshop tile and click on the course link 
6. Select the course and begin.
7. Finish the course and download the WIDA course completion certificate for your records.

Get clock hours:

1. Complete course survey in pdEnroller: Login to your pdEnroller account, go to your Events, click on this event, then go to the Clock Hour Checklist and take the survey. 
2. OSPI will download course completion reports from the WIDA Secure Portal monthly to verify course completion.    
3. Clock hours will be processed by the 15^th day of the month following course completion.   

Accessing the WIDA Secure Portal

Washington State participants need to contact WIDA Client Services Center at help@wida.us for assistance with setting up an account for the WIDA Secure Portal. WIDA will only provide access to participants who have a district email address. Please see linked step-by-step screenshots of the WIDA login process. If you run into any barriers, please email Virginia Morales: virginia.morales@k12.wa.us 

Finding the Self-Paced eWorkshops in the WIDA Secure Portal

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

1. Login to the WIDA Secure Portal.
2. Select the “Professional Learning” path.
3. Scroll to find the “Engaging Multilingual Learners in Science: Making Sense of Phenomena” course.
4. Click on “Course Details” and select “Enroll Now” to enroll in the course.
5. Click on “Enter Course” to begin the course.