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Assessment should drive curriculum when serving young English language learners. Linda Espinosa recommends that Head Start staff assess the environment and individual characteristics of each dual language learner in their care. Beyond assessing the child, Espinosa also encourages staff to affirm the language development expectations, methods, and models used in the classroom to interpret the development of the child.
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The Centers of Excellence Program was established as part of the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007. Funding was first appropriated for fiscal year (FY) 2006. Applicants were each nominated by the governor of his or her state. To qualify for the nomination, the Head Start and Early Head Start programs had to serve as exemplary models for other programs by implementing comprehensive, innovative, and targeted approaches to enhance program services.
In this brief video clip from The Office of Head Start Discovering Science Webcast Series, Dr. Patton Tabors, a dual language learning expert, describes what teachers may do to support science learning for children who speak different languages.
This ECLKC Professional Development Module is designed to guide Head Start and Early Head Start program staff on using the dialogic reading strategy to support early literacy in children who are dual language learners (DLLs).
Distance learning is relatively new to professional development in the field of early childhood education. This resource provides prospective students and instructors information about distance learning from both student and faculty perspectives. This discussion highlights effective practices that support successful professional development opportunities offered on-line.
Ready for Success Series
This webcast is part of a year-long series of professional development opportunities focused on children who are dual language learners and their families. It serves as a summary of all the information discussed in previous webinars, with an increased emphasis on being culturally and linguistically responsive and on improving service delivery to children and families who speak languages other than English. The panel in this webcast refer to the resource handbook "Revisiting and Updating the Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs Serving Children Ages Birth through Five." The handbook can found in the related materials section of this page.
As the final webcast in the Ready for Success series, all concepts previously discussed are tied together. A panel of Head Start and Early Head Start experts, teachers, and parents focus on two successful programs that are culturally and linguistically responsive to children and families who speak languages other than English.
Viewers guide for "Ready for Success: Supporting Literacy Development for Children Who Are Dual Language Learners in Head Start and Early Head Start Webinar."
Dual Language Learners (DLLs) are children learning two or more languages at the same time, as well as those learning a second language while continuing to develop their first language. This webcast introduces Head Start employees to the various cultures and languages within the Head Start community, and helps them enhance school readiness of young children.
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