Educational Consuiltant Seidlitz Education and J Taylor Education San Antonio, Texas, United States
Short Description: Discover how to increase the rigor of instruction and provide gifted multilingual learners (MLs) with the opportunity to exhibit in-depth, complex thinking while also increasing achievement and proficiency in English. Activities that couple Depth and Complexity with sheltered instruction will be shared as a front-loading strategy and a way to meet language and learning needs of identified gifted ML students.
Opportunity & Access Track - Sponsored by Multi-Health Systems, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
Identify a gifted multilingual learner and their instructional needs
Design instruction that combines Kaplan's model of Depth and Complexity with sheltered instruction to meet both language and learning needs of gifted multilingual learners
Create sentence stems that incorporate both academic vocabulary and elements of Depth and Complexity and use them in activities that promote listening, speaking, reading, and writing
