Talk: Designing Literacy Instruction for Today’s Multilingual Learners

Today’s educators working in English bilingual classrooms across the globe know from their everyday work that strong communication and literacy skills are critical to the success of our multilingual learners in today’s knowledge-based society and economy. Supporting this success requires some key changes in the instructional approach for this large, diverse, and growing population. In this session, we will explore key instructional shifts, especially one to a contentbased approach, to foster multilingual students’ literacy skills in English and support their college and career goals.