Teaching Literacy and Language to Emerging Bilinguals Across the Disciplines I

This half of a year-long course prepares preservice teachers in the MAT program to teach emerging bilingual students/English learners through sheltered instruction in the mainstream classroom and meet students’ linguistic, academic, and socio-emotional needs. New teachers must learn how to understand and include the experiences of linguistically diverse and multilingual students in their teaching. Additionally, preservice teachers must learn the nature of language acquisition and how specialized instruction can support this development. Through analysis of case studies, participants will also learn to plan and deliver high quality instruction that is differentiated to meet the needs of English learners.