Presentation Title:
Bilingual Teacher Education in a New Key: Extraordinary Practices in Program Development, Curriculum, and Pedagogies.

Presentation Options: Onsite

Presentation Strand: Bilingual Education

Presentation Delivery Language: English

Description:

In this interactive panel, we discuss innovative practices in the development of bilingual teacher education (BTE) program, curriculum, and pedagogy. The papers evidence how scholars in BTE deliberately work from conceptual, implementation, and/or research foci to promote teacher development aimed at effecting change in the education of multilingual learners. Collectively, we (re)affirm a commitment to enact a BTE agenda for “preparing educators for a new world” (Levine, 2016); “educar para transformar” (Flores et al., 2011), and/or “learning to teach against the (new) grain” (Cochran-Smith, 2001) —an ever-relevant calling responsive to advancing BTE scholarship, practice, and advocacy in 21^st century societies.

Abstract:

This interactive panel focuses on innovative practices in the development of bilingual teacher education (BTE) program, curriculum, and pedagogy. Presentations evidence how scholars in BTE foster the development of bilingual teacher knowledge-competencies beyond extant “either/or” logics and profound recognition that there is no one single panacea for preparing bilingual teacher-professionals to effect change in bilingual school contexts.

Respectively, panelists focus on current issues in bilingual teacher education practice, research, and advocacy pertaining to: (1) the creation of a Bilingual Education Certificate program in Massachusetts; (2) implementing collaborative partnerships between a bilingual/bicultural teacher education program and an art museum in Texas; and (3) conceptualizing and implementing an approach for developing teacher candidates’ teaching-specific Spanish while honoring dynamic bilingualism in California.

Within the orchestration of presentations along conceptual, implementation, and research continuum, authors address current efforts to develop, implement, and/or research innovative bilingual teacher preparation practices from a diverse range of theoretical, analytical, and inquiry traditions. The fundamental end goal, however, is to show how these innovations must be at the service of human and academic flourishing in DLBE teacher education and public DLBE school contexts.

Given the interactive nature of the session, after three brief presentations, facilitator-discussants will engage audience and presenters in an open dialogue on the main issues presented. While there will be room for general and specific comments and questions, facilitator-discussants will invite the audience to provide their perspectives on how panelists could continue to push their thinking in relation to their respective works.

Presentation Types: Panel-80m

Target Audience: All

Primary Presenter's Telephone: 917-284-5686

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Dr. Cristian Aquino-Sterling, Ph.D.

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