Designing for Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Instruction (320-0-20)
Instructors
Paula Kay Hooper
Kavita K Matsko
Meeting Info
Annenberg Hall 101: Tues 6:00PM - 8:50PM
Overview of class
The Designing for Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Teaching course engages pre-service candidates in developing equitable and sustaining planning and instructional techniques reflective of the lives, languages, literacies, and cultural ways of being that represent the children they will teach. Through exploring diverse heterogeneous instructional practices, this course delves into understanding strategies and ways of thinking about content that transform the daily instructional experiences we can offer our students, making connections a reality.
The tools and strategies utilized in planning for culturally and linguistically sustaining instruction begin with understanding the core work of developing mini-lessons, daily lesson plans, and a unit plan. As a basis for this work, we will work to understand our students from an asset-based stance where learning about their knowledges, experiences, and hopes for an engaging learning environment become foundational in planning, instruction, and assessment. We will do this through intentional practices that examine an understanding of content area literacies and ways to leverage the assets of a diverse, multilingual classroom community inclusive of cultures represented in communities, including literature, art, music, and popular culture of those communities. Exploring how to support students in developing these literacies will also be core to this work.
This course can be applied towards endorsements in English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education on a Professional Educator License and carries 15 clinical clock hours of experience.