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Teaching Multilingual Students Workshop Series
Summary
Join us for a quick look at common challenges in supporting multilingual students to meet their full potential in your course. We'll share tips and resources you can use right away and make time for questions and discussion related to your teaching context.
Each of these workshops can be customized for your faculty or your department. Please reach out to find out more.
Description
This series of Multilingual Quick Starts workshops offer opportunities to frame and sustain your inclusive teaching practice through the lens of supporting multilingual learners. Aligned with SFU’s equity, diversity and inclusion priorities, the Multilingual Quick Starts workshops are offered throughout the academic year; all members of SFU’s teaching community are warmly invited to participate.
What to expect
An introduction to the topic at hand, practical, applicable tips and strategies, time to ask your context-specific questions and follow up 1-1 with a member of our EAL Initiatives team.
Facilitated by Amanda Wallace, Eilidh Singh
Workshops in the Series
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Foster and Develop Academic Reading Skills for Multilingual Students
Summary
This short, practical session offers effective and applicable strategies for supporting your multilingual students with academic reading skills across disciplines.
Description
This 30-minute, online, synchronous session focusses on practical strategies for supporting your multilingual students with academic reading skills across disciplines. Beginning with a brief discussion on how academic reading differs from other types of reading, we tackle the expectations and challenges of academic reading for multilingual students before highlighting strategies, examples, resources, and next steps for ongoing support for both you and your students.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Explain the challenges many multilingual students face with academic reading and how some of these challenges can be mitigated
- Apply one or two strategies to support multilingual learners with academic reading and expand their teaching repertoire
- Support multilingual students with appropriate institutional and external resources for academic reading skills to help them develop as efficient and competent readers in their discipline
This workshop can be customized for your faculty or your department. Please reach out to find out more.
Designing Writing Assignments for Multilingual Student Success
Summary
This short, practical session offers tips & strategies for designing clear, concise writing assignments across the disciplines.
Description
SFU student writers come from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds and languages, and all of them, regardless of background or first language, are apprenticing to the language of their disciplines. However, it is worth considering that some multilingual writers may approach writing assignments with different cultural, educational, and linguistic perspectives which may differ from instructor expectations. This 30-minute, online, synchronous session focusses on practical strategies for writing clear and concise assignments that are accessible for multilingual students across disciplines. We will model ways in which you can offer scaffolded support to students to help them clearly understand assignment expectations as they work towards successful completion of your assignments, and will share resources and potential next steps for ongoing support.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Assess how familiar students are with expectations for writing assignments and revise those accordingly
- Reflect on the rhetorical norms of their discipline to help them create clear, transparent, and scaffolded writing assignments and associated grading rubrics with models that help multilingual learners find success
- Advise multilingual students to seek appropriate institutional resources for disciplinary writing skills development
This workshop can be customized for your faculty or your department. Please reach out to find out more.
Giving Feedback to Multilingual Learners
Summary
This practical session offers tips and strategies for giving effective feedback to multilingual students across the disciplines.
Description
Giving effective student feedback to improve learning is a valuable teaching skill. Multilingual students can use practical, guided feedback to check their understanding and improve their performance over time. This 30-minute, online, synchronous session focusses on practical tips and strategies for giving effective and efficient feedback to multilingual students across disciplines. We first reflect on why, how much and in what contexts we give feedback. Then we will discuss practical approaches and examples, to strengthen your skills in providing oral and written feedback that moves multilingual student learning forward, with purpose. We will end the session with time for Q & A, with a curated resource list and an invitation book a follow-up consultation with our team.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Explain the purpose of effective feedback to multilingual students and how it differs from evaluation
- Select one to two strategies for giving effective feedback to multilingual students to support disciplinary learning and development
- Offer support to multilingual students re: appropriate institutional and/or external resources to support their learning
This workshop can be customized for your faculty or your department. Please reach out to find out more.
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Audience
Faculty, instructors, teaching assistants, international teaching assistants and graduate students.
Location
Online via Zoom