Preparing Teachers to Work with English Language Learners in Mainstream Classrooms
Preparing Teachers to Work with English Language Learners in Mainstream Classrooms

Author: Luciana C. de Oliveira

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1623969263

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Co-published with TESOL Press There is a growing need for knowledge and practical ideas about the preparation of teachers for English language learners (ELLs), a growing segment of the K-12 population in the United States. This book is for teachers, administrators, and teacher educators looking for innovative ways to prepare teachers for ELLs and will position teachers to empower these students. This volume will appeal mostly to those preparing teachers in contexts that have not have historically had large numbers of ELLs, but have had a high rate of recent growth (e.g., Midwestern U.S.). This work is the combination of teacher preparation and ELL issues. This volume is unique in tackling pre-service and inservice teacher preparation. Additionally, the chapters collectively aim to go beyond merely equipping teachers to meet the needs of ELLs, but to reach a level of effectiveness with the outcome of equity. The book highlights the knowledge, skills, and beliefs of teachers about ELLs. Part I addresses teacher perceptions of, and beliefs about, ELLs and teacher preparation specifically addressing what they should know in terms of students’ perspectives. Chapters attend to the experiences and beliefs of immigrant teachers about their roles, the role of service learning in teacher preparation, and the potential of understanding home literacy practices to change teacher beliefs about ELLs. Part II focuses on skills necessary to teach ELLs—writing skills teachers can draw on to inform their teaching practices, technological skills teachers need to develop, and skills related to focusing on the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and mathematics. Each chapter explicitly addresses implications for teacher education or professional development.

Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

Author: Tamara Lucas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1136911405

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At the forefront in focusing on the preparation of mainstream classroom teachers to work with K-12 students in the U.S. who speak native languages other than English, this book both contributes to the research base and provides practical information.

Teaching English Language Arts to English Language Learners
Teaching English Language Arts to English Language Learners

Author: Luciana de Oliveira

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1137598581

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This book focuses on the ways in which English language arts (ELA) pre-service and in-service teachers have developed - or may develop - instructional effectiveness for working with English language learners (ELL) in the secondary English classroom.Chapter topics are grounded in both research and practice, addressing a range of timely topics including the current state of ELL education in the ELA classroom, and approaches to leveraging the talents and strengths of bilingual students in heterogeneous classrooms. Chapters also offer advice on best practices in teaching ELA to multilingual students and ways to infuse the secondary English teacher preparation curriculum with ELL pedagogy.Comprehensive in scope and content and examining topics relevant to all teachers of ELLs, teacher educators and researchers, this book appeals to an audience beyond ELA teachers and teacher educators.

Teaching English Language Learners
Teaching English Language Learners

Author: Michaela Colombo

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1412959659

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This book prepares mainstream teachers to provide content instruction to English language learners.

Preparing Classroom Teachers to Succeed with Second Language Learners
Preparing Classroom Teachers to Succeed with Second Language Learners

Author: Thomas Levine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1135020744

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This volume identifies resources, models, and specific practices for improving teacher preparation for work with second language learners. It shows how faculty positioned themselves to learn from resources, experts, preservice teachers, their own practice, and each other. The teacher education professionals leverage their experience to offer theoretical and practical insights regarding how other faculty could develop their own knowledge, improve their courses, and understand their influence on the preservice teachers they serve. The book addresses challenges others are likely to experience while improving teacher preparation, including preservice teacher resistance, the challenge of adding to already-packed courses, the difficulty of recruiting and retaining busy faculty members, and the question of how to best frame the larger issues. The authors also address options for integrating the work of improving teacher preparation for linguistic diversity into a variety of different teacher education program designs. Finally, the book demonstrates a data-driven approach that makes this work consistent with many institutions’ mandate to produce research and to collect evidence supporting accreditation.

Preparing Every Teacher to Reach English Learners
Preparing Every Teacher to Reach English Learners

Author: Joyce W. Nutta

Publisher: Harvard Education Press

Published: 2020-07-29

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1612502598

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2013 Outstanding Book Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Preparing Every Teacher to Reach English Learners presents a practical, flexible model for infusing English learner (EL) instruction into teacher education courses. The editors outline the key steps involved in this approach—winning faculty support, assessing needs, and developing capacity—and share strategies for avoiding pitfalls. The central chapters feature sample courses illustrating how EL content can be incorporated into standard courses (human development, learning disabilities, and social foundations) and across subject areas and topics (math, science, social science, physical education, and classroom management). Most preservice teacher candidates report that they feel unprepared to work with English learners. This practical, flexible model for infusing EL content into teacher education will provide an invaluable resource in shaping the next generation of teachers.

Preparing Teachers of English Language Learners. TQ Connection Issue Paper
Preparing Teachers of English Language Learners. TQ Connection Issue Paper

Author: Kristin L. McGraner

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13:

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More than 5 million English language learners (ELLs) attend school in the United States (Ballantyne, Sanderman, & Levy, 2008). This population has increased by approximately 57 percent during the last decade, drawing sharp attention to the individual and instructional needs of students who are nonnative speakers of English (Ballantyne et al., 2008). With the rising number of ELLs in American classrooms, general "mainstream" teachers will undoubtedly teach a student who is not proficient in English and therefore unable to access the academic curriculum. These mainstream teachers are expected to teach academic content and raise student achievement while simultaneously developing ELL students' facility in and command of the English language. Emerging research indicates that mainstream teachers are ill equipped to effectively teach ELL students and have little access to preservice and inservice education focused on what to teach and how to teach this underserved population (Ballantyne et al., 2008; Hollins & Guzman, 2005). Coupled with these expectations are the challenges in making sense of the highly politicized debates over English-only and bilingual instruction. For these reasons, preparing effective teachers for this complex classroom and policy environment is critical and the role of teacher education programs is paramount. This Issue Paper presents a review of the policy environment for ELL instruction and the preparation of mainstream teachers to address the needs of ELL students. It also describes the key features of effective instructional practices for ensuring ELL students' learning of academic content supported by empirical evidence. Finally, the paper presents the Innovation Configuration for Preparing Mainstream Teachers of ELL Students, a tool for evaluating mainstream teacher preparation programs and inservice professional development. Appendix includes: Innovation Configuration for Preparing Mainstream Teachers of ELL Students.

Literacy and Bilingualism
Literacy and Bilingualism

Author: Maria Brisk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 113560195X

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This handbook applies proven techniques, derived from bilingual/bicultural classrooms, to teaching literacy in the twenty-first century. Its goal is to help teachers increase their understanding of bilingual learners in order to maximize instruction. Teachers can use this handbook to expand their understanding of literacy and bilingualism; implement literacy approaches and assess students’ development; and learn through reflection. Practical, flexible format and content. Complete and straightforward instructions, illustrated by case studies, allow teachers to use the strategies in this handbook on their own or in teacher-led study groups. They can select from the variety of approaches the ones which best match their students’ needs and their own teaching style. Student-centered focus. All of the approaches share characteristics that help motivate students of varying language abilities to develop literacy. Field-tested approaches. The approaches have been modified and tested with bilingual students of different ages and language backgrounds in bilingual, ESL, mainstream, special education, and deaf education classes ranging from preschool through high school. New in the Second Edition: *five new approaches with their corresponding classroom implementation; *additional information in each introduction addressing its theme; *new material on issues of language, culture, and literacy development of students completely new to the English language; and *annotated bibliographies with sample books to support literacy within language and content area classes. Literacy and Bilingualism is intended for a broad audience of teachers in any type of classroom where bilingualism plays a role, and is an excellent text for preservice and inservice courses that prepare teachers to work with English language learners.

Translanguaging with Multilingual Students
Translanguaging with Multilingual Students

Author: Ofelia García

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-10

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1317442369

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Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action Research design, six empirically grounded ethnographic case studies describe how translanguaging is used in lesson designs and in the spontaneous moves made by teachers and students during specific teaching moments. The cases shed light on two questions: How, when, and why is translanguaging taken up or resisted by students and teachers? What does its use mean for them? Although grounded in a U.S. context, and specifically in classrooms in New York State, Translanguaging with Multilingual Students links findings and theories to different global contexts to offer important lessons for educators worldwide.

The Development of a Module to Prepare Preservice Mainstream Teachers to Work with English Language Learners (ELLs)
The Development of a Module to Prepare Preservice Mainstream Teachers to Work with English Language Learners (ELLs)

Author: Sarabeth Orf

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13:

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A lack of preservice teacher preparation is beginning to affect mainstream teachers when they begin to work with English Language Learners (ELLs) in their classrooms. This curriculum project addressed the lack of preparation preservice teachers (PST) receive to work with ELLs in mainstream classrooms and information teachers will need to service ELLs. There are many ways to help fix this problem; all of which will leave preservice teachers prepared to work with diverse classrooms, giving all students an equitable education. Research has shown that if PST are better prepared, and are part of better education programs they will feel more confident and better prepared to teach ELLs. This module teaches PST teachers about who ELLs are, New York state laws, programs NYS schools offer, instructional models teachers can use in their classes, how to foster relationships with parents of ELLs, how to assess ELLs, help with the NYS certification exam, educating all students, and how to be a culturally relevant teacher. This module provides PST with general information they need about ELLs and best practices to use with ELLs in different realms of education. [from abstract]