Key Questions: How can diversity be utilized and valued as a resource in the classroom? What struggles do EAL learners face? How can teachers design multilingual and multimodal activities that support EAL learners’ cognitive and academic development while they are in the process of learning more sophisticated versions of the English language. How can teachers effectively assess, analyze and support meaning-making across the curriculum through multimodal, multigenre, multiliterate, and multilingual pedagogies.
LLED360 Classroom Discourses and Teaching English Language Learners: Secondary
- Instructor:Sylvia Helmer
- I started off this course in Ken Cooper’s class. In the first class he made a sexist comment so I decided to switch out. I ended up in Sylvia Helmer’s class. She is a very unique individual. She provided us with many concrete instructional strategies and activities that we can use in the classroom.
LLED361 Literacy Practices and Assessment: Secondary
- Instructor: Peter Hill
- It was fascinating to have an “old school” teacher like Peter Hill. Sometimes he made sexist or off-colour comments but he seemed to realize when he did this and even apologized once the day after he had made a sexist comment. We had some heated discussions in class which made the class a little more interesting.