Sheltered English Immersion

Catalog description

This course prepares pre-service and in-service teachers with the knowledge and skills to effectively shelter content instruction for the growing population of bilingual students to access curriculum, achieve academic success, and contribute their multilingual and multicultural resources as participants and future leaders in the 21st century global economy. The course covers the bilingual students' world, second language acquisition process, academic language and literacy development in the Sheltered English Instruction (SEI) and bilingual classrooms.