ECS 203 Blog Post #11
- How can teachers maximize engagement among multilingual students?
- What are some effective ways to integrate multilingual instructional strategies into classrooms?
I honestly think we as teachers can maximize engagement among multilingual students in many ways. For example, having students who speak other languages other than English, present a few words and teach the class about their own culture. I feel like this is a great way to incorporate engagement within the classroom. Within the article Blog Post 11 Article, it says, “over time, students and teachers learn a new collection of words in different languages.” Which I think just shows how engaging your students to teach and learn new languages maximizes engagement with your multilingual students. Another thing teachers can do is allow students to share personal experiences, and incorporate the different cultures within the curriculum your teaching. Classrooms can have instructional strategies to integrate multilingualism into the classroom, for example, teachers could do numbers in another language, and the step-by-step will allow students to see the difference in numbers, and letters even. Finally, I think teachers can also encourage participation within their classroom, being happy to teach new cultures and diversity will allow your students to see that learning these topics is important.
Hey Maddie! Interesting ideas. I agree that it is important to show you are excited and interested in learning or teaching different cultures, as that can make students of different cultures feel more welcome and show students that diversity is important to you and should be important to them too. To ensure you are incorporating your student’s language, you could maybe have a student be in charge of teaching the rest of their classmates and you one word each week. The word can be their favourite word in their language, and if they only speak English, then their favourite word is in English! There are so many ways to incorporate language, and you suggest some good ideas!