Full Description
A practical guide combining theory and best teaching practices to enable teachers to support multilingual learners to reach a level of deeper, conceptual understanding.
This book guides educators through a concept-based curriculum designed to foster deep, enduring understanding for multilingual learners. This curriculum provides language scaffolds to allow all students to develop conceptual understanding and the ability to express it in multiple languages.
The book opens with the underpinning theories of learning, offering an accessible overview of the relevant research from cognition, education and multilingualism. It offers examples of concept-based inquiry and translanguaging pedagogy, and proposes a combined approach that addresses the complexities of teaching new language learners. It concludes by addressing the challenges of implementing new curricula and offers advice for school leaders and educators on effective change management.
This practical resource includes sample lesson plans as well as access to videos and teaching materials online, allowing educators to easily adapt ideas to their own context for a more inclusive classroom environment. Designed for pre-service and in-service teachers, end of chapter reflection prompts and activities make this an ideal resource for teacher training and professional development programs.
Contents
Introduction: Why we Wrote this Book
Section One: Exploring Concepts - Theory to Practice
Chapter 1. How The Brain Works and Develops to Support Learning
Chapter 2. Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction
Chapter 3. How We Develop High Achieving Intellectual Individuals
Chapter 4. EAL Theories that Explain Additional Language Learning
Chapter 5. Educational Approaches for Developing Languages
Section Two: Concepts in Practice
Chapter 6. Concept-Based Instruction
Chapter 7. Effective Teaching of English for Multilingual Learners
Chapter 8. Combining Concept-Based Inquiry and Language Learning Strategies such as Translanguaging
Chapter 9. Planning a Unit of Inquiry with Linguistic Challenges in Mind
Section 3: Challenges and Considerations in Implementation
Chapter 10. Implications for the Change Process
Chapter 11. How we Drive Long Term Strategic Language Change
Chapter 12. Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Change Process
Chapter 13. Final Thoughts
