ELL 533 - Understanding Bilingual Learners in a Socio-Cultural Context and Assessment

This course provides a foundation for teachers to understand and address the relevant cultural and equity issues that linguistically diverse students face in U.S. public schools. The emphasis is on culturally and linguistically sustaining approaches to instruction, assessment, professional collaboration, and partnerships with families and communities to benefit students. Specific attention is given to culturally relevant teaching, equity pedagogy and differentiated instruction for ESOL. The course provides an introduction to assessment from theory to practice for linguistically diverse students. A service learning experience allows teacher candidates to develop abilities to observe, reflect and employ informal assessments to better understand and support the learning and development of an English learner. This is a 500 level course so you will have extra assignments and readings as compared to peers in ELL 433.

Prerequisites & Notes: ELL 431 or ELL 531; ELL 432 or ELL 532. Co-requisite: ELL 434 or ELL 534.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter