Critical and creative literacies for science teachers working in diverse classrooms: A collaborative workshop for Scottish PGDE students and Indian in-service teachers.
Published: 24 November 2020
Our classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse. In many areas of the UK, ethnolinguistic diversity can now be regarded as ordinary and a permanent feature of school education.
Our classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse. In many areas of the UK, ethnolinguistic diversity can now be regarded as ordinary and a permanent feature of school education. Such diversity in India is not new, with the majority of learners being able to speak multiple languages. Yet, for many pupils in India and Scotland the language of science instruction is in a language that is different from the one they speak at home and teachers often feel unprepared to teach in multilingual settings.
To address this gap, the School of Education and The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) has designed an online module ‘Developing critical and creative literacies in culturally diverse science classrooms in India and Scotland’ for all of the PGDE science 50 pre-service teachers in the school and 25 Indian in-service teachers in Pune, India. This is a new teaching module that aims through international collaboration to support science teachers to become ‘language aware’ and develop their pupils’ scientific literacy and multilingual competence through an understanding of language and language learning in science contexts.
Link to IISER https://www.iiserpune.ac.in/
Workshop will take place online and participants will engage with a series of asynchronous and synchronous activities between late November and end of January.
First published: 24 November 2020
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