COELEC Artifacts & Outcomes

• A COELEC Higher Education Academy to explore EL support across multiple institutions of higher learning.
• Higher education documentation of a process of integrating EL instructional support strategies into the Teacher Education curriculum.
• Ongoing higher education learning community to discuss and develop strategies to support ELs.
• Paraprofessional certification proposal.
• Adult EL support to facilitate required assessments, courses, transcript acquisition, course authentication, translation, stipends, career decisions, and submission of licensure applications.
• Summer Plus Academy (SPA) for preservice and inservice teachers to develop instructional strategies in literacy development, recognize the interaction between academic achievement and non-U.S. cultures, implement culturally and linguistically appropriate assessments and content-specific instruction, and provide EL tutoring.
• EL adults may earn an associate degree and paraprofessional certificate.
• EL adults may earn an Ohio teaching credential.
• Preservice and inservice teachers may apply graduate credit toward TESOL endorsement.

/ Central Ohio English Learners' Education Collaborative

Bev Good Ph.D.
Director
e/ bgood@otterbein.edu
p/ 614.823.1460

Sue Constable Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
e/ sconstable@otterbein.edu
p/ 614.823.1419

Lavonne van der Zwaag
Administrative Assistant
e/ lvanderzwaag@otterbein.edu
p/ 614.823.1320

Kristin Bourdage, Ph.D.
Faculty Curriculum Coordinator
e/ kbourdage@otterbein.edu
p/ 614.823.1114

Sonia Colon
Advisor
e/ scolon@otterbein.edu
p/ 614.823.1320

/ COELEC Offices

408 and 458 Roush Hall
27 South Grove Street
Otterbein University
Westerville, Ohio 43081
Fax: 614-823-3036 

/ Mailing Address

COELEC
Otterbein University
Department of Education Roush 430
1 South Grove Street
Westerville, OH 43081