Honored to be part of #DL24 in San Diego! Join me at the Deeper Learning Conference for a dynamic exploration of rehumanizing education practices.
I'm excited to explore multilingual learners, project-based learning, and designing for discourse. Let's collaborate and inspire change together! Interested in #DL24? Learn more and register here: http://deeper-learning.org/DL24
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For too long English-only policies within international schools have upheld colonial ideals. As educators, we have the responsibility to disrupt harm within systems and build more loving, nurturing spaces where our students can be their authentic selves. We have the opportunity to cultivate dynamic multilingual ecosystems within our classes, through the open-hearted and strategic use of translanguaging. This March I will be traveling to Nairobi, Kenya to facilitate a two day workshop on translanguaging.This interactive workshop will explore the dynamic translanguaging practices of our students, as well as the pedagogy to foster multilingual ecosystems within our classes where all our students can thrive. The aim of this event is to create a community of practitioners dedicated to linguistic equity as they learn how to cultivate dynamics multilingual classroom ecosystem with translanguaging pedagogies. Register here on the Association of International School's of Africa's website. "Since the dawn of language, conversations have been powerful teachers." This quote by Jeff Zwiers, highlights the idea that whomever is doing the talking is doing the learning. Yet, multilingual learners are often denied access to curiosity and playful, discussion-rich classrooms because of misconceptions about language learning and bias How do we design for equitable discourse so that mlls can thrive in the #inquiry classroom? Designing for discourse in the classroom is a keystone to fostering critical thinking, acquiring a new language, sparking creativity, understanding different perspectives, and developing an empathetic learning community. Designing for discourse is also a radical resistance to what Paulo Freire describes as the "banking method" of education. We will unpack design elements that nurture equitable discourse for our multilingual learners in the inquiry classroom. To register follow this link. Last spring, I had the incredible privilege of working with dedicated MLL professionals from around Asia as we explored our mindsets and practices around serving multilingual learners.
This workshop will help participants reflect, disrupt, and design to build schools where multilingual children are known, valued, served, and loved. This is one of my most comprehensive workshops. You won't want to miss this one!
For more information and/or to register click on over to Knowledge Source Institute's website. I will be running this webinar myself. I'm forever a DIY punk rock kid. 😀. I'm curious to see if I can sustain these affordable workshops at different time zones. Get in touch if you have questions via my contact form on this website or social media. If you are ready to register kindly fill out this form.
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Beth PumaI am an MLL specialist, coach, and educational consultant that is dedicated to building a more transformative educational landscape that honors linguistic diversity and challenges societal paradigms. Archives
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