This fully online course invites science and technology/engineering teachers, coaches, and administrators to approach instruction as a concerted effort in each lesson to develop students' proficiency in content, thinking, and academic language.
Participants will investigate the MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework; WIDA's discourse, sentence and word/phrase levels of academic language; oral and written discourse; and content and language objectives.
Participants should reserve time from 9-3 on the three scheduled days of the course. Daily Zoom sessions from 9-11 are followed by independent work time in each day to complete the assessment of learning, due on July 3.
The academic language of science and technology/engineering required to construct meaning (listening, reading) and communicate meaning (speaking, writing) often hinders students' access to instruction and instructional materials; participants will anticipate and plan for these challenges to optimize equitable access to opportunity for excellence.