Multilingual Mindsets: Nurturing Multilingual Ecosystems in International Schools
Presentered by
Beth Puma 
What you are going to learn
- Understand multilingualism and how it intersects with language acquisition and identity
- Reflect on mindsets that have shaped understanding of multilingualism and how that has shaped programs and systems
- Gather translanguaging pedagogical practices to implement
Course description
Session descriptor: The global majority of people are multilingual, including the vast majority of students who attend our schools. Students deserve schools where they are seen, valued, and loved and do not have to leave their multilingual selves behind. As international educators we have to lovingly interrogate our own understandings and mindsets about language and language learning.