Multilingual Boards
At TIS we acknowledge and celebrate our cultural and linguistic diversity. We are an international community and many different cultures and languages are represented in every classroom. This is an opportunity to share and learn from each other. From a language perspective, this is a wonderful opportunity to compare key terms related to Units of Inquiry, as well as Literacy, Math and PSEL, and to find the differences and similarities that can help us apply our knowledge of morphology and notice cognate words. One of the strategies we use at TIS Elementary school is creating a language profile and a multilingual board in the classrooms. It is fairly easy. Same home language speakers get into small groups. Sometimes it can be just one person. They decide what color should represent their language. We then create a language color key for the class. This multilingual board can be used as a reference to translate and access the content, as well as to add more vocabulary as...