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Micro-Credential Courses In Teaching Multilingual Learners

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Value

The Bilingual Education and ESL program is committed to serving and providing content knowledge to fill the learning gap in working with multilingual communities. The first value is that the micro-credential certificate will enhance the content knowledge and skill for in-service teachers with school partners in working with multilingual learners. Additionally, the microcredential courses will assist in-service teachers to pursue English as a second language endorsement. 

Two microcredential courses are proposed to address the following knowledge and skill in the ASAP2TEACH Project. The first course prepares participating teachers to develop academic language instructions, pedagogy, assessment, inter-cultural competence development, and advocacy for the English Learners, parents, and community. The second course prepare ESL teachers to understand fundamental language concepts, the structure, and conventions of the English language, and receive ESL state exam’s overview and practice.

Microcredential courses in Teaching Multilingual Learners

  • Course 1: Pedagogy for multilingual learners (8 modules)
  • Course 2: Language teaching for multilingual learners (5 modules)
  • Completing ESL 154 review session and practice exam

About the course

The EL population is one of the fastest-growing student groups in the country, and the demand for ESL teachers is particularly high in states with large immigrant and refugee populations. The Microcredential course is a comprehensive program that enhances pre-service and in-service teachers’ knowledge and skills of teaching multilingual learners. Moreover, the course also provides pre-service teachers who are interested in taking English as a second language 154 supplemental state exam.

The course includes the following topics:

  1. Understanding the second language acquisition (SLA) theories and stages
  2. Acquiring linguistic knowledge to teach English Learners (ELs)
  3. Understanding academic language for ELs
  4. Advocating for English Learners (ELs) and their families at the school level
  5. Advocating for EL-Friendly Local, State, and Federal Policies
  6. Analyzing Assessments to Support EL Learning
  7. English as second language approaches, methods, and strategies
  8. Using Formative Assessments to Support EL Learning
  9. Content-based lesson planning