This course is only open to K-12 Washington educators currently employed by a Washington school district. Private school educators whose school has opted into Federal Title III services may also take this course. Contact your school administrator for details.

Description: In an increasingly connected world, Social Studies teaching and learning provides a unique opportunity to foster connections between our multilingual students’ identities as global citizens and their social context. It provides a platform to elevate multilingual experiences through their own voices, highlight multiple perspectives, and develop a critical understanding of history. This self-paced workshop features concepts, theory, terminology, and approaches that promote thinking and discourse through a global lens. The course also addresses literacy across multimodal texts, the integration of content and language learning, and increased accessibility of materials through the use of technology, inquiry, and translanguaging practices. 

By engaging in this workshop, participants will be able to 

• Engage with theories and approaches that integrate inquiry-based thinking and student-led discourse in the Social Studies classroom 

• Explore teacher-centered practices to uplift multilingual student voices and extend background knowledge through the use of multimodal text 

• Synthesize literacy-centered research to encourage the presentation of multiple perspectives

 Access course:

Washington State public school educators and approved private school educators access the WIDA Self- Paced Workshops via the WIDA Secure Portal.

 If you do not have a WIDA Secure Portal account, follow the steps below:

1. Use your district email address and email WIDA Client Services Center at help@wida.us and request a WIDA Secure Portal account.
2. WIDA will send you an access link within 24 hours. Set up your login username and password.
3. Access the WIDA Secure Portal.
4. Select the “Professional Learning” path.
5. Scroll to the Self-Paced Workshop tile and click on the course link 
6. Select the course and begin.

Get clock hours:

1. To receive clock hours, participants must fulfil the time requirements of the course.  1 hour of "active participation" equals one clock hour. 
2. Clock hours will not be awarded for less than 1 hour of time spent actively participating in the course as per WAC 181-85-030. No exceptions will be made.
3. Upon course completion, fill out the course survey in pdEnroller: Login to your pdEnroller account, go to your Events, click on this event, then go to the Clock Hour Checklist and take the survey. 
4. OSPI will download course completion reports from the WIDA Secure Portal to verify course completion and time spent actively participating in the course.    
5. Clock hours will be approved quarterly.  Pay attention to when you complete the course.  No exceptions will be made.