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1. Interested in Registering for the AIU's CPE Courses? We've moved our Course Catalog & Registration(s) to Genius! New link below!

Program: ESL Courses

Audience: Educators looking to enroll in CPE courses.

Dates: 5/1/2025 to 8/31/2025

Meeting Times: Please see our catalog for course offerings and start/end dates.

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Please click on the link below to view our course catalog and proceed with course registration(s) via Genius:

https://aiu3.geniussis.com/catalog


Registration for CPE courses will not longer occur via Frontline Professional Growth. However, ESL courses and Act 48 will continue using Frontline Professional Growth for course and workshop registration.

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2. ESL 2 Course: Developing Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity

Program: ESL Courses

Audience: Certified K-12 teachers seeking ESL specialist certification, ESL teachers

Dates: 7/14/2025 to 11/17/2025

Meeting Times: Live classes via Zoom: July 14 - 17, 2025 from 8:00 am to 11:30 am; and Monday, 11/17/2025 from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Online coursework is due: November 10, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Attendance is mandatory for all live Zoom classes.

Registration closes for this course on 7/09/2025

Required Text: participants must obtain the following text in order to successfully complete this course. This text can be ordered online in new or used condition; it may also be available for download to Kindle or other mobile text readers.


Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners. Authors: Snyder, Sydney and Staehr-Fenner, Diane. Corwin Press - ISBN 978-1-544-39025-3


This course will provide an examination of theory, diversity, and pedagogy constructs for explicit applications to practice in classrooms with English Language Learners. A historical exploration of immigration, cultural perspectives, and teaching practices that demonstrate and explicate the interconnectedness of culture and cognition are provided. By examining the background of English Language Learners and their cultures a framework for creating a culturally responsive classroom environment is developed.

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3. ESL 3 Course: Language Acquisition and Development

Program: ESL Courses

Audience: Certified K-12 teachers seeking ESL specialist certification, ESL teachers

Dates: 8/11/2025 to 12/8/2025

Meeting Times: Live classes via Zoom: August 11 - 14, 2025 from 8:00 am - 11:30 am; and Monday, 12/8/2025 from 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Online coursework is due: 12/1/2025 at 11:59 p.m. Attendance is mandatory for all live Zoom classes.

Registration closes for this course on 8/06/2025

Required Text: participants must obtain the following text in order to successfully complete this course. This text can be ordered online in new or used condition; it may also be available for download to Kindle or other mobile text readers.


How Languages are Learned (5th ed). Authors: Lightbrown, Patsy and Spada, Nina. Oxford Press - ISBN 9780-194406291.


This course is designed to give the participants an understanding of the theories of how language is acquired. We will be discussing various language acquisition theories, the stages of language acquisition, and strategies of how to help your students acquire language in the four language domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. We will also discuss accommodations and modifications along with these teaching strategies that can be used during small group ESL instruction and by general education teachers.

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