In this course, students develop knowledge and skills for teaching English language learners in early childhood and elementary education settings. Students examine language and culture as resources. They learn about the psychological foundations of bilingual and bicultural development in young children, and explore how to create safe social-emotional classroom climates that foster additive approaches to language learning and academic achievement. They learn ways to structure classroom environments, interactions, and routines that promote, rather than contradict, children's already developing cultural competencies, and to build successful home-school partnerships with culturally and linguistically diverse families.