The eWorkshops available for School Administrators explore various educational concepts while also learning about language. We also recommend that School Administrators utilize the eWorkshops available for All Teachers here. These are the available eWorkshops:
- Learning Through Two Languages for School Leaders
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Learning Through Two Languages for School Leaders
Essential Question: How can we build on students' linguistic and cultural assets to foster additive bilingualism?
Guiding Questions:
- Unit 1: How does speaking a language other than English benefit students in U.S schools?
- Unit 2: How do bilingual learners access information and express what they know when they are learning through two languages?
- Unit 3: How is teaching on the "Second Language Pathway" different from teaching on the first? What are the implications for school leaders?
- Unit 4: How do bilingual learners transfer the knowledge they have gained through one language to express themselves in another language?
- Unit 5: How can educators help bilingual students increase their communicative competence in a second language? What are the implications for school leaders?
- Unit 6: How can we build on students' linguistic and cultural assets to foster additive bilingualism? What are the implications for school leaders?