This interactive workshop will explore the 7 High Operational Practices from Pedagogy of Confidence and corresponding best practices in bilingual education settings: 1) identifying and activating students' strengths/bilingual cognitive capacities; 2) building relationships/culturally responsive pedagogy; 3) eliciting high intellectual performances/cross-linguistic & cross-cultural transfer; 4) providing enrichment/integrated instructional units of study; 5) integrating prerequisites for academic learning/academic language demand; 6) situating learning in the lives of students/through students' linguistic and cultural lens; and 7) amplifying student voice/language Status.
Maria Sudduth strongly believes in the promise of public education as the vehicle for equitable opportunities in the 21st Century. She is an educator with 22 years of experience, primarily working with underserved populations. Her areas of expertise are bilingual education, linguistically... Read More →
