Sheltered English Immersion Instruction Across the Curriculum

Catalog description

The purposes of the course are to convey(1) the world of ELLs and their teachers,(2) the impact of Second Language Acquisition(SLA) in the classroom, and (3) teaching academic language and sheltering content across the curriculum. Strategies will be modeled, practice, and evaluated for use in classrooms from early childhood, elementary, middle school, to secondary level teaching. The course includes a pre-practicum component which students work in SEI educational settings to practice strategies introduced in class.