Participants will:
- Introduce collaborative principles for participants to practice in their school-based teams with their colleagues
- Demonstrate and practice the solution-seeking process for multi-perspective teams considering DLLs performance from both an DLL perspective as well as special education perspective
- Review of current research and resources to support participants in maximizing the use of students' home languages (even in multilingual settings) in instruction, intervention and assessment
- Interactively practice crafting interventions for DLLs
- Demonstrate use of the solution-seeking process as a diagnostic tool, incorporated into a culturally and linguistically responsive MTSS approach and to develop, implement and document instruction and interventions to present at case studies
Audience
Administrators/Coordinators/Directors/Principals
Assistant Principals
Home Visitors
Parent Educators/Family Specialists
Speech/Language Pathologists
Teacher Assistants/Paraprofessionals
Teachers
Topic
DIV = Diverse Learners
Levels of learning
Introductory