Investment: $299

What are research-based scaffolds to support multilingual learners’ language and literacy development across the whole of your literacy teaching? This course will be grounded in three core principles: Assets-based approaches to teaching and learning; language-oriented planning, instruction, and assessment; and meaningful interactive opportunities for authentic language use. Throughout the sessions, each research-based scaffold will be introduced with easy-to-implement instructional strategies. All scaffolds and strategies will be accompanied by classroom examples with images and/or videos and opportunities for interaction and conversations with peers about possibilities for applying these ideas in your context.

Course curriculum

    1. Course Information

    1. Padlet

    1. Introduction, Schedule and Goals. Who are Multilingual Learners?

    2. Core Principle 1: Assets-based Approaches

    3. Core Principle 2: Language-Oriented Planning, Instruction and Assessment

    4. What are Scaffolds? What are the top 10 research-based scaffolds for multilingual learners?

    5. Core Principle 3: Meaningful, Interactive Opportunities for Authentic Language Use: When, why and for what purposes might we use English?

    6. Scaffolds and Instructional Strategies - How much does it really help?

    7. Scaffold 1: Use Visuals to Support Understanding

    8. Scaffold 2: Prepare structured oral language opportunities with talk equity considerations

    1. Scaffold 3: Connect new learning to prior learning and experiences

    2. Scaffold 4: Teach academic vocabulary

    3. Scaffold 5: Model skills, strategies and procedures

    4. Scaffold 6: Provide repeated exposure and opportunities for practice

    5. Scaffold 7: Prepare resources to support student responses

    6. Scaffold 8: Connect to and build on students’ home language skills and knowledge

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  • 17 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

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Course Facilitator

Dr. Lindsey Moses

Lindsey grew up in Billings, Montana. She completed her B.S. degree in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education at Montana State University. Lindsey began teaching second grade at a bilingual elementary school in Colorado. During that time, she became interested in how to best support the needs of young bilinguals acquiring English. She received her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies: ESL, Multicultural, Bilingual Education from the University of Northern Colorado. Lindsey received her doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado in Educational Studies with a dual cognate of Reading and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education. Lindsey began working as an assistant professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Northern Colorado in 2009. During this time, she taught classes in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Literacy, Linguistically Diverse Education, and Teaching English as a Second Language. Lindsey also worked at the University of Vermont as an assistant professor of Early Childhood/Elementary Literacy. She is currently an associate professor of Literacy Education at Arizona State University. Her research interests include examining how young children and young bilinguals construct meaning with text in various instructional settings. She has published articles on her classroom research, student inquiry and caring relations in schools settings. Lindsey is a co-author of the Heinemann book, Comprehension and English Language Learners: 25 Oral Reading Strategies That Cross Proficiency Levels, with Michael F. Opitz. Lindsey also authored the Heinemann book Supporting English Learners in the Reading Workshop. Her latest book, What are the REST of my Kids Doing? Fostering Independence in the K-2 Reading Workshop, was co-authored with an amazing first-grade teacher, Meridith Ogden. This book provides practical, classroom-based ideas for developing meaningful independent reading and learning opportunities for primary-aged students. Lindsey enjoys working with school districts, schools, and teachers across the country and internationally as an educational consultant to provide workshops and professional development to support their reading and writing instructional needs. She enjoys everything from long-term residencies to one-day workshops.