Multilingual Learning

Do you speak other languages at home? This will not hold your child back at school theconversation.com/do-you-speak-o…

Check out our resources to promote language learning and multilingualism 🧡 > EAL Multilingual Classroom Poster Pack - Basic Greetings: twinkl.co.uk/resource/eal-m… > EAL Basic Skills Multilingual Home Learning Tasks: twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-e-1…

Our next #ECIS #Multilingual Meet-up, Language Policy Case Studies, will share ideas around language policies (process and product) in the international school context. Join us on 23 Jan at 1600 CET or 1600 EST. Register here: tinyurl.com/4k76sc6x #LearningTogether!

How can teachers in #multilingual contexts leverage #AI tools to support planning, assessing, or teaching their diverse learners? Join the #ECISMLIE Committee this week at their December MeetUp. It's informative, practice-based, and free! Register here: ecis.org/event/mlie-mee…

We have a new slide deck on one of our most popular strategies, sentence frames! You are welcome to use this in your PLCs for ELLs/MLLs. #slides" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">colorincolorado.org/teaching-ells/… #ELL #ELLchat #MLL #MLLchat

Multilingual word wall connected to telling time. Engaged 2nd graders! @CISDK

We are happy to announce our next #MLIEMeetUp this Thursday, focused on debunking myths about language learning and #Multilingualism. We hope to see you there! Register here: ecis.org/event/mlie-mee…

We are so excited for our first Meet Up this week! We hope that you can join us for a great conversation. It’s free! Sign up below! ecis.org/event/mlie-mee…

“#HomeLanguage is a consistently developing term” — “a strong language foundation is important for success and identity” —- @BBISlearning HL coordinators @MissFrauYulia and Kirsten Lund Bruning on the complexity and impact of HL programming #AGIS2024.

ECIS MLIE Meet Ups are back! Next week sees the season kick off. Sign up on the ECIS MLIE web page to attend. It's free! Here’s the link!!!! ecis.org/event/mlie-mee…

Students who are reading in a language they are still learning may benefit from additional scaffolding to support comprehension. 1. Chunk — Divide the reading into manageable portions. 2. Stop for discussion — Give students frequent opportunities to discuss the reading with their peers. 3. Pause for drawing — Have students do something with the reading such as draw or act out a scene. 4. Read together — Pair students to read with a buddy, read together as a class, or have the class echo read. 5. Use L1 — Leverage students” full linguistic resources including their first language. What would you add? #teaching #teachingenglish #teachingideas #teachingresources #teachingkids #ESOL #bilingual

New free #ELL professional learning session -- great for educators who are new to working with language learners! What It Feels Like to Be a Language Learner: Activities & Videos colorincolorado.org/what-it-feels-…

What is background knowledge and how do we build it? Background knowledge is an essential element to reading comprehension. What we know impacts what we understand. We can increase understanding by building background knowledge through the use of multimedia, a wide range of reading on a topic, playing with words, and connecting ideas with analogies. #teaching #teachingenglish #teachingideas #teachingresources #teachingkids #ESOL #ESL #bilingualschool #multilingualism #multilingualchildren #literacymatters

It's that time of year again where I start to see people's school improvement plans for next year. If you are looking looking at metacognition, oracy, turn and talk, literacy, trauma informed practice or bits of individual theory from cognitive science, I'm not saying these things are a waste of time, but there's a need to prioritise. Whatever it is you are spending your summer planning, I'd consider checking the list below first, if all those things are sorted in your school then go for it, but if they aren't I'd suggest they are prioritised. Calm, orderly, predictable classrooms across the school. Calling out does not occur. Teachers are consistently putting students' names at the end of questions. Teachers have "rules of thumb" for which students they ask questions to and when. There are always checks for understanding in-between explanation and practice. Checks for understanding in the majority of subject are delivered using miniwhiteboards. Miniwhiteboards are used with "hover and show" routines. Students are in the room and learning (i.e. actually doing something academically meaningful) extremely quickly at the start of lessons. Departments have long-term memory strategies that map out how teachers give students the retrieval practice they need. As above, once that stuff is in play, go to town. But if it isn't, it's probably where you should focus.

👇8 Alternatives to Round Robin #Reading👇 sbee.link/ce6fnpk9yb via The Teacher Next Door #elar #engchat #teachertwitter

Our newest free #ELL PD resource is ready to share! Accountable Talk: Strategy slide deck with activities and videos for use in training, PLC groups, and pre-service colorincolorado.org/teaching-ells/…