CI5645

The course is designed to give teaching licensure candidates grounding in theory and practice for teaching linguistically and culturally diverse students. This course provides an overview of the benefits and challenges of working with culturally diverse multilingual students in elementary classrooms. Central topics include instructional practices and strategies for teaching multilingual learners, second language literacy and biliteracy development, language learning and bilingualism, and culturally responsive pedagogy. The course is designed to help teacher candidates to develop an understanding of the language-specific challenges that accompany subject matter learning and to demonstrate the ability to apply a range of instructional strategies to help multilingual learners succeed academically.

prereq: Early Childhood or Elementary Education ILP or Special Education Major or Special Education M.Ed./M.A candidates

011603