Language matters
Developing a multilingual ethos to foster student and teacher agency Mindy McCracken, Lara Rikers and Jim Cummins explain the process and practice
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to that point. They were also actively exploring how emerging technologies could be harnessed in pursuit of expanding students’ language awareness, biliteracy development, and overall learning. We have continued to share ideas and collaborate in co-presenting at various conferences since that time. Their account of the instructional directions they and their colleagues pursued illustrates powerfully the role of teachers as knowledge-generators. A school’s journey towards multilingual instruction The important question we have to ask ourselves as knowledge generators in diverse schools is how we can not Summer |
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Preamble from Jim Cummins Although we had met previously at the 2011 ECIS ESL/ Mother Tongue Conference in Düsseldorf, my first extended encounter with the instructional innovations that Lara and Mindy had initiated at the International School of The Hague (ISH) came in April 2013 when I was able to spend several days at the school as a result of an invitation from Pascale Hertay, who at the time was Deputy Head of the Primary School. The ways in which Mindy, Lara and their colleagues had integrated students’ home languages into multiple facets of instruction across the curriculum was beyond anything that I had seen up
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