Teaching Diverse Populations

The course focuses on the literacy development, research, and effective teaching practices that support emerging bilinguals (EBs) becoming literate in the elementary schools as well as how to effectively and equitably teach diverse populations. This will be an examination of how learning to read, writing, speaking, and viewing in a new language are similar and/or dissimilar from these modalities in a first language in terms of cognitive, sociocultural, linguistic and educational perspectives.