A must-have resource to disrupt inequities for multilingual learners
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This resource provides teachers with six core practices for teaching multilingual students. It provides real classroom examples of how each core practice looks like and it also provides tools for teachers to analyze their lessons for the six core practices. This book intends to humanize pedagogy, disrupt inequity for multilingual students and emphasizes the importance of collaboration and reflection in teaching to promote equity.
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Marjeta Bejdo, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Marjeta Bejdo is an Albanian-American and teaches kindergarten in a public school district near Seattle, Washington. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education with an EL and Special Education endorsements at Elmhurst College (now Elmhurst University) in 2017, and her master’s in Teaching and Learning with focus on Experiential Learning at Clemson University in 2019. Currently, Marjeta is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and is anticipated to graduate in May 2024. Her doctoral research focuses on increasing teacher self-efficacy to support multilingual students in literacy through structured co-planning which requires using an equity minded protocol to assess multilingual students' work. Her life experience as an immigrant and a multilingual person puts Marjeta in a special position to advocate for the equitable education of multilingual students in public schools. You may contact her at marjetabejdo@gmail.com.
