Are Your Slides Too Cute? 3 Presentation Tips That Center Student Understanding | KQED Learn how to create accessible, focused classroom materials to better engage diverse learners.

A quick 👀 check-in: Do your slides + materials invite clarity 🪄 or overwhelm 😵‍💫?

Our goal = help Ss focus on learning 💡

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Maximizing Emergent Bilingual Students’ Potential Photo by MART PRODUCTION on Pexels.com If you are a teacher of emergent bilinguals, you most likely have a natural sympathy that propelled you into this field where you can help those who most need…

Let’s move beyond the “pobrecito syndrome.”
If empathy turns into lowering expectations and rigor, students’ potential is limited.

Believe in their brilliance.
Challenge them with love.
Support them with purpose.

High expectations are a form of care.

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It is VITAL we protect the languages students know, hear, understand, speak. These are leverages to acquiring other languages.

Ignoring languages limits students’ participation & also endangers confidence & identity increasing language loss.

Linguistic oppression has devastating consequences.

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