Radically Inclusive Teaching With Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students: Braving Up

The book offers practical strategies and insights for educators to create linguistically inclusive classrooms that nourish students' linguistic repertoires, redefine teaching and learning as reciprocal endeavors, promote student-to-student interactions, and create opportunities for language experimentation. It is based on research in linguistically diverse school districts and features examples of successful practices from educators who have worked with newcomer and emergent bilingual students.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2022
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

Offers practical strategies and resources for educators to implement in their classrooms to support the linguistic development of newcomer and emergent bilingual students.
In order to create a more linguistically inclusive learning environment for newcomers and other language learners, educators must implement curricular, pedagogical, and policy shifts that nourish students' linguistic repertoires, redefine teaching and learning as reciprocal endeavors, promote student-to-student interactions that help newcomers feel less isolated, and create opportunities for students to experiment with language in both academic and informal settings.

Drawing on their extensive experience working with hundreds of educators and thousands of students in linguistically diverse school settings (grades 7-12), the authors challenge readers to engage in critical, collective action as they transform their approach to languaging, agency, and authority in the classroom. Ideas and strategies come alive through classroom vignettes, student stories, and samples of student poetry, prose, and art, as well as examples of linguistically affirming approaches to online teaching.

The book serves as an enlightening professional conversation that highlights the importance and impact of multicultural and culturally responsive education, ultimately leading to linguistically inclusive education for newcomers and other language learners.

Key Features:

Based on classroom-based research in linguistically diverse school districts in Southern California that utilize an arts-based, multiliteracy enrichment program designed for newcomer and emergent bilingual students.

Examines the ideological,curricular, pedagogical, and political factors that shape the daily experiences of students who are new to the United States and in the process of incorporating English into their linguistic repertoires.

Shows examples of how educators create classrooms where newcomer and emergent bilingual students' identities, languaging, and humanity are invited, affirmed, and amplified.

Features the voices of students who courageously explore their experiences and perspectives.

Offers practical strategies and resources for educators to implement in their classrooms to support the linguistic development of newcomer and emergent bilingual students.

By implementing these shifts, educators can create learning environments that celebrate diversity, promote equity, and empower students to thrive linguistically and academically.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807766415