Multilingual Creative Classrooms Professional Development

Introducing the Think+DO Tank Foundation’s innovative NESA-accredited professional development course for educators and community workers.

Multilingual Creative Classrooms Course

Multilingual Creative Classrooms is a self-paced, accredited online course rich with research and learning – all designed to assist you and your learners and community members.

You’ll find new practical strategies to harness the power of creativity and, based on research, bust all the common myths about learning and speaking more than one language.

It’s a vibrant, positive and powerful way forward for classroom teachers (who may or may not be multi-lingual themselves) learners, families and schools alike.

The course has been co-developed by researcher, Western Sydney senior lecturer and Academic-in-Residence Dr Rachael Jacobs, and Jane Stratton, CEO, Think+DO Tank Foundation.

Multilingual Creative Classrooms is a fascinating and accessible resource presented by Dr Rachael Jacobs, an expert in the field. It introduces the concept of translanguaging and its academic and social benefits, along with providing a myriad of practical and inspiring suggestions for teachers working alongside Australia’s multilingual communities.

This course offers practical guidance in your professional development and learning with the latest thinking and approaches to this growing area of pedagogical expertise.

Delivered by Dr Rachael Jacobs.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

• increase their confidence and competence to use the arts and creative learning strategies at all stages of learning, especially when teaching culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) learners

• strengthen educators’ ability to understand the cultural context for CALD student, and apply this to all stages of learning

• maintain and strengthen multilingual literacies in CALD learners

• strengthen literacy pedagogy, particularly for speakers of other languages.

Ideal Course Participants

  • Team leaders, for example, stage leaders, subject leaders

  • Classroom teachers

  • Special education specialists

  • School Leaders.

Fee Structures

  • Individual Participant - $250 + GST

  • Group of Ten - $2000 + GST

  • School Licence (unlimited users) - $7500 + GST.