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Dimensions of Language Growth
with Chris Carson
Through this workshop, you will plan and enact specific strategies to build student language in four dimensions: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Focusing on four specific dimensions of language—speaking, listening, reading, and writing—this workshop explores ways to integrate specific strategies for developing language while strengthening content instruction. Taking a student-centered “language as action” approach, we will examine how we can build on multilingual students’ assets, positioning all students as important contributors to content lessons.
Audience: K-12 educators and education leaders
| The Details | |
| Dates | Starts August 30 |
| Mode | In-person |
| Time | Wednesdays, 3 - 4 p.m. |
| Cost | $89 |
| Location | CU Denver |
| Graduate Credits Available | Participants who complete the series of workshops are eligible for graduate credit that can be used toward a CLDE or CLD-BE endorsement program and/or MA in CLDE |
Purpose & Outcomes
- Plan, enact, and reflect on strategies to facilitate student talk for academic purposes.
- Plan, enact, and reflect on strategies to support active listening.
- Plan, enact, and reflect on active meaning-making processes to support reading.
- Set and sustain high expectations by creating learning experiences that challenge, support, and empower every multilingual student in your care.
Chris Carson
Facilitator
As a public school teacher , Chris Carson worked in diverse classroom settings in multiple states across all grade levels and subject areas. His current focus, as a senior instructor of culturally and linguistically diverse education at CU Denver,is on language learning and language use in classroom settings, especially as it relates to working with learners from historically marginalized groups.