Teaching Multilingual Learners Social Studies Through Multiple Perspectives

Description

In an increasingly connected world, social studies teaching and learning provides a unique opportunity to foster connections between multilingual students’ identities as global citizens and their social context. It provides a platform to elevate multilingual experiences through their own voices, highlight multiple perspectives, and develop a critical understanding of history. This self-paced workshop features concepts, theory, terminology, and approaches that promote thinking and discourse through a global lens. The course also addresses literacy across multimodal texts, the integration of content and language learning, and increased accessibility of materials through the use of technology, inquiry, and translanguaging practices.

Audience

This workshop is designed for all K–12 educators who serve multilingual learners.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will

• Engage with theories and approaches that integrate inquiry-based thinking and student-led discourse in the social studies classroom
• Explore teacher-centered practices to uplift multilingual student voices and extend background knowledge through the use of multimodal text
• Synthesize literacy-centered research to encourage the presentation of multiple perspectives