Multilingual learners in Grades K-12 are often overidentified or
underidentified for special education. The third edition of this
groundbreaking text offers a better way to meet the needs of
multilingual learners: by creating a culturally and linguistically
responsive multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) and implementing a
continuum of services that meets the needs of the whole child.
Shifting away from traditional ways that schools address the needs of
students who experience challenges, the new edition of this text takes a
strengths-based approach to supporting multilingual students and focuses
on the complex issues that affect a multilingual learner's development.
Chapters have been fully updated to reflect the latest best practices
and reorganized to better align with MTSS. Educators and other
school-based professionals will be fully prepared to:
- Form collaborative MTSS teams that blend the diverse expertise of
staff members
- Evaluate and enhance the learning environment for multilingual
learners
- Gather extensive data about six critical factors in students' home and
school life, from previous schooling experiences to cross-cultural
factors
- Authentically assess the strengths of multilingual learners
- Create a continuum of services that addresses the individual needs of
each student
- Plan effective instruction and intervention using a multilingual lens
- Monitor the effectiveness of support strategies and programming for
multilingual learners
PRACTICAL FEATURES:
- MTSS team activities to support professional learning
- Templates, a rating scale, and other reproducible tools
- Real-world examples from the field
- Discussion questions to help teams apply the concepts to their own
student population
