ESL 543 Culturally Responsive and Equitable Practices for ELL Teachers

This course provides teacher candidates an opportunity to develop and enhance teaching practices to support, encourage, and engage linguistically diverse students. Candidates will explore ways students’ in-school and out-of-school experiences should be valued and connected to new learning through an asset-based approach to planning and instruction. The course will also help candidates critically consider the ways our current assessment system could be more culturally responsive for our ELL students and their families.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Admission to program or director approval

Outcomes

1. This course will prepare students to:
2. Develop an affirming attitude toward students from linguistically diverse backgrounds.
3. Understand research-based principles that build ELL-responsive learning environments.
4. Examine instruction from multiple perspectives, creating an inclusive classroom environment.
5. Hold high expectations for all students and help all students learn
6. Use diverse resources to plan and structure engaging learning opportunities for ELLs, adapting instruction and evaluating learning using multiple sources of evidence.
7. Collaborate with colleagues, parents and administrators to ensure student success.
8. Advocate for the needs of ELL students and their families within the school.