Designing for Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Instruction (420-0-20)

Instructors

Paula Hooper

Kavita Matsko

Meeting Info

Annenberg Hall G22: 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.

Class Attributes

Attendance at 1st class mandatory