Essential Practices
To create radically effective and equitable learning experiences for Multilingual students, educators incorporate Essential Practices into their instruction and school culture. These practices accelerate language development and support cultural ways of knowing and being for Multilingual students. Essential Practices can be categorized among the three components of pedagogy - Environment, Instruction, and Content.
Implementing the Essential Practices is justice for Multilingual students.
Environment
Environment is not only the physical space of classrooms and schools, but also includes the cultural norms of interaction, what is valued, and how it feels to be in our schools.
Language and Culture as Valuable Resources
Translanguaging
Collaboration, Co-teaching, and Collectivism
Instruction
Instruction includes strategies that support language development and membership in grade-level learning at all English proficiency levels.
Build Background
Clarify Input
Fortify Output
Foster Interactions
Develop Academic Language
Cultural Relevance (CLEAR)
Content
Content includes the standards, curriculum and topics, that are taught and learned.
Grade level standards-based instruction supported for language access