Designing Assessment and Curriculum for Multilingual Learners

Catalog description

English as a Second Language (ESL) Program Specialists play multiple roles in schools and classrooms. They collaborate with classroom teachers to identify and assess newcomers, assist in the adjustment of new students into the school and classroom, and most importantly, build a caring and pedagogically sound classroom environment for multilingual learners (MLs). In this course, our focus will be on how teachers can design and implement a curriculum that integrates language and content-area learning. The course will prepare ESL Program Specialists to better attend and develop MLs' literacy skills while engaging them in rigorous grade-level curriculum to meet Pennsylvania content and English language development standards. The course will cover topics such as linguistic differentiation, translanguaging pedagogies, classroom discourse practices, multimodal learning strategies, and ongoing formative assessments.