All children, including DLLs, can benefit socially and academically from being in classrooms with high quality teacher-child interactions as measured by CLASS®. While the CLASS tool is not intended to be a measure of specific DLL best practices, several recent studies find CLASS to be a valid instrument for predicting development and learning among DLLs.
Teachstone developed these resources to help teachers:
On this page, you will find resources to help you learn about teaching practices to support dual language learners and how these practices crosswalk with the Pre-K CLASS dimensions. You can watch a series of bilingual videos that show DLL teaching practices in action. Finally, you can explore additional resources about supporting dual language learners.
In these seven videos, you will see many dual language learner teaching strategies in action. A few videos are in English, a few are in Spanish, and several contain a mix of both languages.Watch Now
Teachstone has curated some online resources to help you deepen your knowledge, The resources below can help you understand benefits of bilingualism, implement a Classroom Language Model, and support all dual language learners in your classroom.