PROGRAM
CREATE combines Master’s level coursework with built-in coaching and family and community-centered teacher leadership activities. CREATE is for educators in partner schools working with multilingual learners. This includes English as a Second Language (ESL), Bilingual, SEI and content-area teachers, as well as paraprofessionals, administrators, and coaches.
Completers may earn the English Language Development Certificate or the Dual Language Certificate.
Family and Community-Centered Teacher Leadership Activities
Families and communities are brought into CREATE as assets, resources, and leaders in the education of their multilingual children. Dialogues and collaborations are established between educators and families/communities as a way of empowering both entities to support student success. CREATE works with family and community members who would like to get involved and facilitates dialogues between them and their children’s educators.
Coaching:
CREATE participants are further supported by an on-site coach with the goal of implementing and fine-tuning new practices in their own classrooms, schools, and districts and to share their knowledge and expertise with their peers in grade-level teams, schools, and the district. Coaching is built into graduate coursework and connects with course content and family and community-centered leadership activities.
Summer Institute
CREATE offers a three-day summer institute as a culminating experience, focusing on building sustainable communities of practice within districts and later extend them across participating districts. It fosters peer-mentoring and sharing instructional strategies, insights, and materials with the goal that the online resources can sustain teacher communities of practice beyond the lifecycle of the grant.
2. Dual Language Certificate
APLING 605 Theories and Principles of Language Teaching:
Builds theoretical and practical background in second language development and language teaching, emphasizing the relationship between research, theory and practice in strengths-based second language teaching.
APLING 603 Language, Culture and Identity:
Explores concepts and meanings of culture and the ways in which cultural practices help shape our identities, particularly how they are enacted and received in classrooms and second language education. The readings, discussions, and assignments are aimed toward developing pedagogical tools and educational programs grounded in rich understandings of culture and identity (e.g., power, race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, language, sexuality, class).
APLING 615 Dual Language Pedagogy:
Explores effective ways to structure learning opportunities for multilingual learners in bilingual educational settings with a focus on dual language programs.
APLING 614 Foundations of Bilingual/Multicultural Education:
Builds understanding of the practical, historical, philosophical, legal, and theoretical foundations of bilingualism and bilingual/multilingual education in the US and worldwide.
APLING 616 Curriculum Development in Bilingual Education:
Develop a theoretical and practical framework for implementing strengths-based curriculum for multilingual learners at the district, school, grade, and classroom level.
1. ELD Certificate
Builds theoretical and practical background in second language development and language teaching, emphasizing the relationship between research, theory and practice in strengths-based second language teaching.
APLING 605 Theories and Principles of Language Teaching:
Explores asset-based policies and practices for teaching English as a second language to immigrant children and youth in the US including ESL and Sheltered English Instruction models, emphasizing why and how pedagogical decisions affect a specific teaching context and supporting informed pedagogical choices.
APLING 618 Teaching ESL Methods and Approaches:
Explores language proficiency testing and other measurement procedures needed in the administration and instruction of multilingual learners including a practical emphasis on alternative and holistic assessment practices.
APLING 670 Testing in the Bilingual/ESL Classroom:
Builds understanding of the practical, historical, philosophical, legal, and theoretical foundations of bilingualism and bilingual/multilingual education in the US and worldwide.
APLING 614 Foundations of Bilingual/Multicultural Education:
Explores concepts and meanings of culture and the ways in which cultural practices help shape our identities, particularly how they are enacted and received in classrooms and second language education. The readings, discussions, and assignments are aimed toward developing pedagogical tools and educational programs grounded in rich understandings of culture and identity (e.g., power, race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, language, sexuality, class).
APLING 603 Language, Culture and Identity:
APLING 605
Coaching: Family & Community Collaboration
ELD Certificate
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APLING 605
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Dual Language Cert
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Community Teacher
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Coaching: Family & Community Collaboration (continued) & plan & deliver district-wide PD
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