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Bilingual/ESL & Special Education
Departments
Join us for this two-day institute focused on optimizing supports for struggling multilingual learners. A framework for planning and data collection based on seven integral factors that influence multilingual learners’ performance in school will be reviewed. Participants will be guided through a collaborative, solution-seeking process to consider students’ academic challenges from both a language learner perspective and from a special education perspective. Interactive approaches and resources will be featured in developing culturally and linguistically responsive instruction, interventions and assessment.
Target Audience: This workshop is designed for all team members who intervene, identify, and support multi-lingual learners who present learning difficulties including students with disabilities. Teams should include persons who support the linguistic needs of multi-lingual learners (eg. LPAC members, bilingual / ESL teachers, counselors, campus/district administrators) and persons who support the learning needs of struggling learners (eg. reading specialists, special education teachers, speech-language pathologists, LSSPs, diagnosticians, RtI specialists).
WORKSHOP OUTCOMES: Participants will:
- Define the Seven Integral Factors as a tool for planning instruction and intervention and framework for data collection for multilingual learners across the system.
- Describe collaborative principles to engage participants in practice on multiperspective teams.
- Compare and contrast students’ performance from multilingual learner and special education perspectives.
- Analyze current research and examine multilingual resources and strategies to optimize use of students’ home languages.
- Interactively design linguistically and culturally responsive instruction and intervention for multilingual learners.
- Analyze meaningful and manageable data collection within valid assessment and monitoring student progress.