CMA: Teaching Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Students across the Content Areas

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This course focuses on helping bilingual English learners construct meaning in classroom literacy and content-instruction activities in content areas in all grade-levels and beyond. In this course candidates examine language teaching methods and models, and elective, integrative instructional practices in teaching of content area subjects (i.e. mathematics, science, etc.) to the emergent bilinguals. Included are methods of teaching English language arts and literacy to bilingual English learners, using the native language and English, and methods of teaching native language are to bilingual English language learners. This course also explores curriculum standards, methods and practice of assessment for English language learners, including in-depth discussion of language proficiency assessment, classroom-based assessment, and identification of English language learners; ESL and special education; instructional design and classroom management appropriate for content specific classrooms in which emergent bilinguals are participants. This course is required for all TESOL and Bilingual Education candidates. Field experience in an ESOL/bilingual setting is required.