Assessing Multilingual Students in General Education Classrooms: What Can Be Improved?
Reese Brown (Grand Valley State University), Qu Pengtong (Grand Valley State University)
This roundtable, led by a pre-service teacher, explores findings from a study examining the assessment strategies and tools employed by general education teachers when evaluating multilingual students. Additionally, it explores the challenges encountered during the assessment process.

Interest Sections: K-12, Curriculum/Materials Design

Asking the Right Questions to Support ELs and Their Families
Adeline Borti (Grand Valley State University)
Supporting pre-service teachers (PSTs) to support ELs and their families stems from training PSTs to ask the right questions when they interact with ELs and their families. In this roundtable discussion, we seek to explore how we teach and nurture PSTs to support ELs and their families by asking the right EL questions.

Interest Sections: K-12, Post-Secondary

Translanguaging and Creativity: Meaningful Changes that Translanguaging Read-Alouds Can Make
Mihyun Han (Hope College)
This roundtable explores the impact of the translanguaging pedagogical approach on elementary emergent bilingual students' learning and creativity. Through a research project involving interactive read-aloud sessions and book-making activities, we highlight how translanguaging fosters students' literacy development and creative expression, offering insights for educators to effectively support emergent bilingual learners.

Interest Sections: K-12

Prioritizing Equity of Involvement for Parents of MLs
Bright Egwim (Kalamazoo Public Schools)
The purpose of this roundtable is to investigate the equity of opportunities for EL parents to engage with their EL child. The presenter will discuss their own study involving semi-structured interviews the themes that arose from the data analysis.

Interest Sections: K-12, Advocacy & Policy

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