Academic Language Advocacy Services
Audience: Classroom Teachers
Move beyond dominant monolingual practices and basic strategy implementation to build a classroom culture that truly validates your students' identity capital and plurilingual competence. This academy equips you with Critical Multilingual Awareness and practical tools to leverage the Funds of Knowledge found in your students' families and communities, ensuring instruction is not just accessible but culturally sustaining. By adopting a Translanguaging Stance and mastering foundational language acquisition theories, you will learn to scaffold rigorous content and become an effective arbiter of equity, ensuring every learner—regardless of their stage of development—accesses meaningful input and achieves deep academic success.
Master research-based frameworks, including Content-Based Instruction and OCDE Project GLAD® strategies, to effectively scaffold content and provide meaningful input regardless of a student's language development stage,. Ground your practice in foundational language acquisition theories to strategically foster metalinguistic awareness and build solid academic language proficiency without relying on guesswork.
Evolve from traditional methods to cultivate Critical Multilingual Awareness, allowing you to act as an effective "Language Arbiter" who resists dominant monolingual practices. Develop the ideological clarity needed to adopt a Translanguaging Stance, leveraging dynamic bilingualism as a tool for deeper learning, creativity, and criticality.
Create an inclusive ecology that validates every learner's identity capital and plurilingual competence. By utilizing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies and integrating familial Funds of Knowledge, you ensure high academic outcomes while supporting the socio-affective dimensions of learning and motivation.
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