Willkommen, Bienvenido, Bienvenue, You are Welcome Here. How do Foreign Language Teachers Make Sense of LGBTQ Indentities and Queer-Inclusive Practices in their Classrooms?

William Coghill-Behrends

Will Coghill-Behrends, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Foreign Language and ESL Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Iowa

3:30 pm Central Time, Thursday, November 5

 

 

 

 

Description: Drawing on data from the narrative inquiry that this research is based upon, Dr. Coghill-Behrends will describe some of the unique challenges of inclusive teaching in the world language classroom.

About the discussant: Dr. Coghill-Behrends is a clinical associate professor of Foreign Language and ESL Education. He is the Co-Director of the Baker Teacher Leader Center where he focuses on Global Education Initiatives. As a former HS German Teacher will has always been interested in the ways World Language teachers make sense of the various identities students bring to the classroom and how teachers make space for those identities in the classroom and in the target language.

Delivery format: Zoom meeting