Sustaining a Commitment to Multilingualism: Teachers’ Negotiation of Curriculum in Bilingual Settings

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

As the literacy landscape is increasingly marked by scripted curriculum, especially in early childhood and elementary classrooms, the role of teacher agency has often ceded to fidelity of curriculum implementation. It is important to understand how teachers can achieve curricular goals while being responsive to the specific multilingual students in their classrooms. This proposed symposium highlights three studies that show how teachers negotiated literacy curriculum to center the resources and pathways of multilingual students.

Content Area

• AREA 8. Literacy Learning and Practice in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings

Chair

• Cori Salmeron, Georgia State University

Discussant

• Eurydice Bauer, University of South Carolina

Individual Presentations

• Sustaining a Commitment to Multilingualism: Teachers’ Negotiation of Curriculum in Bilingual Settings - Cori Salmeron, Georgia State University; Renata Love Jones, Georgia State University; Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Brooklyn College