This week, I continue to share web resources—National Institute for Early Education Research/NIEER (http://nieer.org/).
Since I work at an internationl school, I always want to learn how to support those dual language learners in my class. Therefore, I found a poster from this website titled Impacts of a Science and Math Professional Development Project for Pre-K Teachers of Dual-Language Learners (Lange & Brenneman, 2013). They discusses "the SciMath-DLL project designed to develop, and carry out preliminary testing of a pre-K professional development approach that integrates high-quality math and science instructional offerings with supports for dual language learners.” (Lange & Brenneman, 2013) I learnt that challenges educators face to implement this high-quality professional development, such as limited time; understanding teaching early math and science in a new way by letting children explore, think, and solve problems on their own; and choosing an appropriate amount of lesson content, using more high quality math and science talk (Lange & Brenneman, 2013).
I had a understanding that the importance of science, math and dual-language learning assist children’s later school success and in longer-term development. In other hand, the viral role of play and creativity in children’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development is also essential. This balance between academic achievement and play, is always a topic that relevant professionals are trying to work on.
Reference
Lange, Alissa., & Brenneman, Kimberly. (2013). Impacts of a Science and Math Professional Development Project for Pre-K Teachers of Dual-Language Learners. Retrieved from http://nieer.org/sites/nieer/files/AERA%20conf%20poster%20SciMath-DLL.pdf
2 comments:
Hello Lucia,
Just like you I am also interested in finding out how to support the dual language learners. Being a second language learner as a child I can still recollect the struggle to digest information before processing it to get to the expected answers.
Acquiring more knowledge on how to develop dual language learners is the right step to helping children develop their linguistic and language formation ability.
Hello Lucia
I to would like to learn more about "Dual Language Learners". I don't know if, this was true but, I had a friend say to me "it was hard for some student's due to they struggle with their first language.
Again Great Posting
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