Educational Consuiltant Seidlitz Education and J Taylor Education San Antonio, Texas, United States
Short Description: This session is designed to help educators become talent scouts in identifying gifted multilingual learners (MLs). Research regarding both identification barriers and promising practices will be shared. The learning, language, and cultural characteristics of gifted MLs will be highlighted and participants will be introduced to several observation tools that can assist them in recognizing these students in the classroom.
Opportunity & Access Track - Sponsored by Multi-Health Systems, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
Define a gifted multilingual learner and recognize their characteristics.
Analyze research-based barriers and promising practices in the identification of gifted. multilingual learner
Use an observation tool to identify multilingual learner to refer for gifted assessment.
