This ConnectEd learning webinar features three novice elementary teachers and how they are working to broaden the knowledge bases and languages of science in their classrooms. Check out their short classroom videos and reflections on striving toward justice-centered teaching. The examples in the webinar highlight different ways that teachers are working at the intersections of race, language, and science as they integrate students’ cultures and experiences into science lessons.
Trees, Seasons & Shining a light on Farming Communities: Kinder Bilingüe
This video features Maestra Consuelo teaching dual language, Spanish & English, to Kindergartners in a rural farming community in Washington State. She connects science to the stories of the families and uses multiple examples and strategies of translanguaging as a way of honoring students and families knowledge, identities, and ways of being.
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