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Ep238. ft. Laura Morales - Beyond Native Fluency: What Great Bilingual Teaching Actually Requires (Part 2)
Speaking a language does not automatically qualify someone to teach it and holding a teaching certificate does not automatically guarantee that someone understands how children learn.
Part 2 with Laura Morales goes much deeper.
We move from the architecture of the reading brain into the systems surrounding it: bilingual teacher preparation, native-speaker assumptions, literacy knowledge, classroom management, student autonomy, professional training, teacher reflection, and educational responsibility.
Laura explains why educators do not necessarily need to speak every student's home language…
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