the alignment of professional development with New York standards and assessments, student
needs, including but not limited to
linguistic, cultural
diversity and special
needs, and teacher capacities;
Equity in education, teacher education, content and / or disciplinary literacy, content and language integrated learning (CLIL), multi-lingualism and schooling, evaluation of learning, Systemic Functional
Linguistics and educational
linguistics, discourse analysis, queer theory,
linguistic diversity among students with special
needs, (auto) ethnography, and youth culture
In
linguistics courses, teacher candidates
need structured opportunities for sustained, research - informed investigations of
linguistic diversity in student writing and culturally responsive pedagogical practices.