Category: Education

Unexpected effective uses for bilingual literacy centers

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Bilingual literacy centers are ideal methods for teaching a foreign language in the classroom. As useful as a textbook, you model the instruction in class using simple methods of teaching.

Any tool of literacy helps with education, especially books, videos, and interactive apps. When students interact more with the reading material and with you, they are more apt to retain information and use it later.

Bilingual literacy centers propagate on the idea of students learning in different ways from one station to another.

How are instructional stations different from any other teaching method?

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Cultural diversity within the classroom in building communities

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While there is a global change of culture, there is also a change in the classroom. Much of what students relate to culture is from each other in class.

At that moment, you have the opportunity to build a community in the classroom of mutual respect and assimilate to each other’s cultural diversity. What is more important than to teach students the need for cultural awareness?

Even though you find it overwhelming to adjust cultural awareness to lesson planning, it is much easier than you think. To my surprise, students engage the most in learning activities when lessons incorporate cultural diversity.

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The impact of bilingual learning in project based learning

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Teachers know the value of collaboration in the classroom when students work in groups. Evidently, it is part of many classrooms across the United States. Especially in science classes, project based learning increases in demand to encourage engagement between subject and students.

In fact, project based learning continues to thrive in many classrooms as teachers encourage students to metacognition and critical thinking skills.

Whether it is a science class or language support group, project based learning is making a path for English Language Learners (ELL) students to acquire language skills in unconventional ways. 

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