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. This course includes components of state requirements for certification. 

Credits

3

Outcomes

1. This course will prepare students to:
2. Understand various ways of collaborating with colleagues, parents and administrators to ensure student success.
3. Develop an affirming attitude and high expectations for and about students from linguistically diverse backgrounds.
4. Analyze research-based principles that build ELL-responsive learning environments.
5. Analyze instruction from multiple perspectives, creating an inclusive classroom environment.
6. Apply diverse resources to plan and structure engaging learning opportunities for ELLs, adapting instruction and evaluating learning using multiple sources of evidence.
7. Create an advocacy plan for the needs of ELL students and their families within the local school community.