GED 7888 - Elevating Learning for Multilinguals

Elevating Learning for Multilinguals is a course for teachers across content areas and grade levels. With the aim of making grade-level/content area content accessible to multilingual learners of English, teacher candidates will gain knowledge and skills including:

An overview of second language acquisition theories.
Support in writing, integrating, and assessing academic language objectives to ensure that your grade-level content is accessible to multilingual learners of English.
A deep dive on the local immigrant populations and strategies for culturally responsive pedagogy.

Required for licensure candidates in all areas except ESL.

Credits: 2