Teaching Multilingual Youth & Adults

We are all language learners.  From the time we were conceived, through learning to babble, and finally speaking our first words; language structures and contexts supported the sequential development of our first language or "L1".  But it's not just words and sentences that make up our linguistic repertoires.  Our cultural contexts, the purposes for language use,  how language is formally taught and learned, state policies throughout history, and deeply rooted social values around language use also affect our linguistic capabilities and identities.  These topics and more arthe focus of ED 75a Waltham Speaks:  Multilingualism, Advocacy, and Community and ED 175a Teaching Multilingual Students PK-12*.  In ED 75a, you are exploring and furthering the Waltham community's effort to support multilingualism within the public schools and various community organizations.  In ED 175a*, you will learn about language learning and teaching theories, language and context demands, language learning policy and legislation, and how to center students in an assets-based framework for sheltered English instruction.

*Ed 175a is the course which will fulfill the MA DESE SEI Endorsement for the Intial license in grades K-12.

Resources for both courses and colleagues in the ESOL community are organized into the following themes: