Building Resilience Through Shared Voices Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria G. Dove, Audrey Cohan, Carrie McDermottGoldman, Molloy College
Due to lack of experience, many students are having difficulties navigating the basic functions of school technology as they struggle with logistical tasks like navigating multiple tabs and accessing class video links. Additionally, students who are multi-language learners are contending with the added challenge Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld is Associate Dean and Director of the Doctoral Program (Educational Leadership for Diverse Learning Communities) at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY. Before entering the field of teacher education, she was an English as a Foreign Language teacher in Hungary (grades 5-8 and adult), an English as a Second Language teacher in New York City (grades K-3 and adult), and taught Hungarian at New York University. A Fulbright Scholar and sought after national presenter, Andrea is the coauthor or coeditor of 20 books on education and numerous chapters and research articles related to the needs of diverse learners. Andrea is coauthor of the Core Instructional Routines books with Judy Dodge.
of learning in a new language. In this shift to remote learning, I am constantly having new experiences where students show me how to better support them. Nadia K-R, High School English Teacher, NYC DOE, Journal entry #1
Most students have returned to in-person learning, however Juan, who lives with vulnerable family members has chosen not to return. His first language is Spanish, and he often chooses to remain silent for the majority of the period. During our lesson today, students were working in small groups. One group worked with my special education co-teacher to close-read sections of our class novel. The independent group read and completed tasks that did not require additional teacher support beyond the embedded scaffolds. And a group of newcomers worked with the ENL teacher on acquiring key vocabulary that appear in the novel we are reading. Juan was working in my heterogenous online group on comprehension. The novel is written primarily in English but has a smattering of Spanish. Juan used our class 15
