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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.
Online Participation:
Individuals can register and view the workshop from their device. The online system will be moderated by a professional in the presentation room so you will be able to submit questions and comments that will be shared live. Handouts will be made available electronically within the online platform.
Teams can gather to view the workshop as a group; however, in order to earn Continuing Education (CE) credit, each individual will need to be registered and should be logged in on a device in order to detect their participation. Any questions, please contact Lisa Rukovena, lisa.rukovena@esc13.txed.net