Dig deep into the Spanish and English language systems and structures to promote students’ metalinguistic awareness ability and the use of their full linguistic repertoires!

This new institute is designed to help participants deepen their knowledge about similarities and differences between Spanish and English and enhance their biliteracy instruction and coaching in programs where content is delivered in Spanish and English, such as dual language and transitional bilingual education programs.

Framed by equity and using CAL’s Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education (Howard, et al., 2018) as the theoretical framework, this interactive institute expands upon the content of CAL’s Spanish-English Biliteracy Instruction: Foundations institute to provide participants with opportunities to put their knowledge into practice by developing activities that promote students’ metalinguistic awareness using strategies such as the Bridge and Preview-View-Review.

The new institute is ideal for participants who have taken CAL’s Spanish-English Biliteracy Instruction Foundations institute and would like to expand their knowledge on the topic, and also for veteran educators who would like to better align their biliteracy instructional or coaching practices with current research-based practices.

The 15-hour institute will provide both live (synchronous) and on-own (asynchronous) online learning and take place over several days. It will include:

• Workshop/webinar sessions with CAL facilitators to understand and discuss effective practice as well as network with other educators with similar priorities
• A culminating project in which participants plan a lesson based on what they have learned

Institute Objectives
Participants will be able to:

• Use the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education (3rd edition) to ground their work with a focus on instruction and assessment
• Identify strategies that support the attainment of the three core goals of dual language education for all students
• Develop activities for teaching students the similarities and differences between languages to promote metalinguistic awareness
• Explore practices that create opportunities for sustained language use

Curriculum Overview
The following provides an overview of the institute topics:

• Introductions
• A comparison of language systems and structures in Spanish and English
• Methods for leveraging students’ bilingualism and biliteracy: bridging, the bridge and preview-view-review
• Translanguaging: stance and scaffold
• Assessment of students’ bilingualism and biliteracy: scaffolding strategies for oral production, developing scripts, and grouping students for linguistic turn-taking
• Methods for effectively supporting students in producing language
• Presentations of final assignment

All materials will be available electronically each day of the institute, including the daily presentation handout, activities, and resource links.