TED 502 - Teaching Emergent Multilingual Students

Upper Division

This course prepares teacher candidates to support emergent multilingual students as general education elementary or secondary teachers or education specialists. The course introduces students to research and theory on additional language development, state and federal policies governing the education of English learners, and different instructional program models for serving multilingual students. Candidates learn how to scaffold and differentiate literacy and content instruction for students who are learning English and how to create opportunities for English language development across the curriculum. In addition, students learn how to use formative assessment practices and design culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy, as well as how to collaborate with multilingual families to support their children’s learning.This is a gradaute-level course open to undergraduate teacher education candidates.

Course credits: 3