BUILDING THE BASE: NEWCOMER LITERACY

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Goal:

To develop the capacity of secondary educators to offer Newcomer students rich, meaningful, and worthwhile quality opportunities to learn.

 

You will learn to:

• Rethinking Common Assumptions about who Newcomers are and what they can do

• Understand, experience, and design highly structured quality learning opportunities for students just beginning their educational journeys in the US

• Craft opportunities for Quality Interactions among Newcomers  with a wide range of English language proficiencies

• Reflect deeply on your own practice and the underlying theories of education that drive your decision making

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