TESOL Consortium Preparing Teachers of Multilingual Learners for Effective Literacy Instruction: Best vs Bought Practices?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

How do teachers perceive their experiences of teaching literacy in this commodified curriculum? How does this impact their instruction of multilingual and ELL-identified students? What strategies of resistance and accommodation do they use?
A panel will address perspectives on these challenges and consider initiatives to resolve them.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research in Reading and Literacy

Chair

• Rosalind Horowitz, University of Texas - San Antonio

Panelists

• Tasha L. Darbes, Pace University

• Laura Janet Kaplan, Pace University

• Lillian Ardell, Language Matters, LLC

• Luz Yadira Herrera, California State University - Channel Islands