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Parents Partnering with Teachers to Bring Up Multilingual Children

“Parents Partnering with Teachers to Bring Up Multilingual Children” is Karen’s guest post on the Multilingual Living website.  Check it out. Parents Partnering with Teachers to Bring Up Multilingual Children Be sure to spend time...

Settling The Great Bilingual Education Debate on BAm! Radio

Hear Karen’s guest appearance on BAM! Radio from June 2010 here: Settling The Great Bilingual Education Debate Click the download button and an .mp3 file that can be played in most any media players, including iTunes,...

“Rules for Teaching English/Dual Language Learners in Preschool?? A Conversation Starter

“Rules” for Teaching English/Dual Language Learners in Preschool?? A Conversation Starter by Karen Nemeth People are often asking me to just tell them the “rules” for teaching dual language learners in preschool.  They seem disappointed...

The Preschool Language Blender

By Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. I recently visited a childcare center that had five preschool classrooms. There were children who spoke eight different languages and adults who spoke only three of those languages. The director had...

Meeting the Early Learning Needs of ALL Children – Not Just the Ones Who Show Up

By Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. If you are reading this, you must be interested in early childhood education.  Now, here’s the question at the core of this post:  “Have you given any thought to the children...

High Quality Preschool – Outside School Walls

By Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. My last blog, “Meeting the Early Learning Needs of ALL Children  – Not Just the Ones Who Show Up”, generated some important questions from readers, and I promised some answers.  How...

Home Visiting Can Bolster High Quality Preschool Efforts

By Karen Nemeth I blogged about my concern that high quality preschool is failing to reach some of the neediest children who can’t make it to a program every day. My main emphasis is always...

Bringing Education to the Homes of Young Children – Blog Part 4

By Karen Nemeth Ed.M. In 2010 I attended a leadership symposium presented by the Pew Center on the States.  John Schlitt, director of the new Pew Home Visiting Campaign, hosted informative presentations and fielded important...

Message for Parents of DLLs: Success in English Starts with Supporting the Home Language!

Time after time teachers ask, “we believe in supporting the home language, but what should we do when parents ask us NOT to use anything other than English?” Parents who speak another language often enroll...

Ways Teachers Can Learn Children’s Home Languages

10. Make a list of 10-20 survival words like eat, nap, bathroom, hurt, help, stop, and ‘mommy will be here soon’. Print on a card and send home with a mini-recorder so parents can write...

Must-Have Multicultural Items to Place on Your Order List

10. Books in all the languages you expect to encounter – at least 10 books per language. • 9. Digital camera and supplies for making books/games/magnets/posters that connect with real world experience and can be...

Teaching English Language Learners in Preschool