Professional Development

Professional Development

Dual language educators who facilitate instruction in Spanish must be adept at helping students to make cross-linguistic connections between English and Spanish, as a means to strengthen fluency in both languages. In this professional development session, conducted entirely in Spanish, teachers were able to better understand the linguistic features of the language that directly impacts both literacy and content instruction.

Our Claremont teachers spent valuable time with Dr. José Medina in The Dual Language Classroom: Instruction in Spanish. The Framework was designed to specifically align with the research recommendations found in the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education: Third Edition.

The Framework provides an opportunity for dual language teachers to create lessons that dismantle systems of oppression while also allowing emergent bilingual students to access grade level standards regardless of language proficiency in either program language.