Innovations in Multilingual and Bilingual Literacies Symposium 2024: Exploring Multiliteracies; Oral Language and Vocabulary Acquisition; and Inclusive, Culturally Responsive Pedagogies (In-Person)

Monday, July 1 - Tuesday, July 2, 2024 Institute will be offered in-person at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Instructors: María Paula Ghiso, Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, and Alexandra Roman, with Professor Agustín Reyes-Torres, University of Valencia

Hours: 9am-4pm Eastern Daylight Time

Grades: K-9

This interactive, intense two day symposium, which focuses on the intersection of theory and practice, will explore multiple pathways to support bilingual and multilingual students, and to augment their unique competencies. The team of instructors works nationally and globally, in schools and through research, and they will share practical classroom structures and instruction, as well as theory and research. Participants will study theories of language acquisition, pedagogies to harness and strengthen learners’ cultural and linguistic capital, and instructional methods, and curriculum design. In particular, the symposium will focus on:

• Writing projects and curriculum that develop community knowledge

• Practical and affirming supports for multilingual writers, that promote agency

• Learning alliances inside and outside the classroom

• Joyful vocabulary acquisition and classroom pedagogies to deepen students’ oral language and academic vocabulary

• Creating communities of care and belonging, especially for newcomers

• Incorporating multimodal texts and multiliteracies pedagogy to increase engagement and access to critical literacies

• Planning instruction with deliberate language goals, in reading and writing

• Teaching emergent bilingual and multilingual students with disabilities

The symposium is for all educators who teach in classrooms and systems where students come to school speaking more than one language.

Cost: $425

Innovations in Multilingual and Bilingual Literacies Symposium 2024 Payment: You will be notified by email if your application is accepted. Your acceptance email will provide a link for payment (credit card or PO only). Purchase orders for this institute can be made out to: Teachers College Advancing Literacy, 525 W 120th Street, Box 77, New York, NY 10027.

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