TLS406

040553

This course is an introduction to important issues in the assessment and instruction of emergent bilingual and English-learning students in public schools classrooms. We will explore what assessment is, how it informs education policy and practice, which methods are most appropriate and authentic to assess content learning and language proficiency, and which tools teachers will need to carry out the assessment. Information about assessment and instruction will help teachers make informed decisions about the education of their bilingual and English-learning students.
This course will also help you identify and practice using multiple instructional strategies to improve your instruction with emergent bilingual and English language learners. A secondary goal is to encourage you to make the education of these students a major focus of your teaching career. Teaching emergent bilingual and ELLs English (and other languages) and content matter is an enormously rewarding endeavor. It also requires the kind of unique competency and resourcefulness that one finds in the very best teachers in our profession. Therefore, we hope to motivate your innate creativity and intellectual curiosity -- abilities that will serve you well throughout your teaching career.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

017823

TLS506