Presentation Title:
Empowering Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual Students via Content-Rich Curriculum focusing on Language, Culture and Identity
Presentation Options: Onsite
Presentation Strand: MLs
Presentation Delivery Language: English and Spanish
Description:
Empowering Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual Students via Content-Rich Curriculum focusing on Language, Culture and Identity is a dynamic, interactive, and highly informative session as it reports on the experiences of Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual students across 70+ high schools in Texas. It provides strategies to activate student’s prior knowledge.
Abstract:
Students are able to activate prior knowledge when they are emerged in content-rich curriculum focused on their native language, cultural backgrounds and individual identities. The purpose of this presentation is to share valuable insights, student voices and pragmatic curriculum which has been implemented across communities in the state of Texas. It presents a series of pragmatic strategies for administrators and educators to empower Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual students by connecting the school curriculum with student's lived-experiences. This session is dynamic, interactive and highly informative as it reports on work-done with Newcomer and Emergent Bilingual students across 70+ high schools in Texas.
Presentation Types: Academic-50m
Target Audience: All
Primary Presenter's Telephone: 7138376970
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