ICMEE has a new eWorkshop available: Learning through Two Languages for School Leaders.
The author of this eWorkshop is Nancy Commins, and her work is focused on building on students’ linguistic and cultural assets to foster additive bilingualism. Hence the main goal of this eWorkshop is to develop a deeper understanding of the following concepts and ideas and apply them into your own practice. The topics include: bilingualism as an asset in becoming academically proficient, the relationship of two languages and the idea that there is a common underlying proficiency of language and concepts in the brain, building on what students bring with them and knowing in one language to learn through the other and going beyond language to the ideas of culture and cross-cultural competence.
This eWorkshop has been developed specifically with school leaders in mind -- principals, instructional coaches and other school and district level leaders may find the content of the eWorkshop valuable for their work with bilingual learners and teachers of bilingual learners.
Click here to download the flyer:
https://cehs.unl.edu/tlte/ICMEE/Flyers/Learning%20Through%20Two%20Languages%20for%20School%20Leaders%20flyer%5B4878%5D.pdf
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/w3n3