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Multilingual Learners Resources

 

Multilingual learners are students who are developing proficiency in multiple languages. This includes students learning English as an additional language in school (often referred to as "English learners" or "English language learners").

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Meeting the Needs of the Refugee Students in Your Science Classroom

Your new student roster includes refugee students. You want to communicate with them and make them feel welcome in their new science classroom; howeve...

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Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science

Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. Howeve...

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The (Trans)Formative Assessment Planning Template

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The Science Teacher—November/December 2021

Volume 89, Number 2 Culturally Relevant Science Pedagogy Validating students’ cultural identities in classroom practices—such as understan...

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Nurturing Inclusive Science Education: Insights from Elementary Teachers Working with Karen Immigrant Students

This article summarizes our research findings, investigating instructional adaptations elementary science teachers make to accommodate a growing popul...
 

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Listening as Children Lead: Engaging Emergent Multilingual Children in Science Sensemaking by Transforming Roles

This article shares the experiences of three elementary teachers who took steps to transform their roles from speakers to listeners. After participati...
 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 5, 2024
 

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Meeting the Needs of the Refugee Students in Your Science Classroom

Your new student roster includes refugee students. You want to communicate with them and make them feel welcome in their new science classroom; howeve...
 

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Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science

Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. Howeve...
 

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Using Collaborative Digital Summary Tables to Impact Student Engagement and Learning

This manuscript reports on the impact of using collaborative digital summary tables on student engagement and learning. First, traditional summary tab...
 

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Exploring Climate Change through Students’ Place Connections and Public Data Sets

Climate change is a pressing societal challenge. It is also a pedagogical challenge and a worldwide phenomenon, whose local impacts vary across differ...
 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 23, 2024
 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, February 27, 2024
 

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Translanguaging as an Essential Practice in Socially Just Science Classrooms

In this interaction, Manuel and Rico (all names are pseudonyms) expertly mix Spanish and English to communicate as they collect data in a ninth grade ...
 

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Computational Modeling With Multilingual Learners

While the vision for science education through A Framework for K–12 Science Education (NRC 2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) co...
 

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Kids Love Nonfiction!

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