Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

2010-09-13
Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

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  • Author: Tamara Lucas
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136911405
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

Teacher educators today need knowledge and practical ideas about how to prepare all pre-service and in-service teachers (not just bilingual or ESL specialists) to teach the growing number of students in K-12 classrooms in the United States who speak native languages other than English. This book is at the forefront in focusing exclusively on the preparation of mainstream classroom teachers for this population of students. Part one provides the conceptual and contextual framework for the book, including a comprehensive discussion of relevant demographic trends and an analysis of national and state policies. Part two presents examples of initiatives in different institutional and geographic settings, highlighting three essential elements of teacher preparation: curriculum content, program design, and program coherence. Meeting a pressing need among teacher educators left to figure out, largely by trial and error, how best to prepare non-specialist classroom teachers to work with ELLs, this book both contributes to the research base and provides practical information to help readers envision possibilities they can apply in their own settings.

Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

2010-09-13
Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

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  • Author: Tamara Lucas
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136911391
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

Teacher educators today need knowledge and practical ideas about how to prepare all pre-service and in-service teachers (not just bilingual or ESL specialists) to teach the growing number of students in K-12 classrooms in the United States who speak native languages other than English. This book is at the forefront in focusing exclusively on the preparation of mainstream classroom teachers for this population of students. Part one provides the conceptual and contextual framework for the book, including a comprehensive discussion of relevant demographic trends and an analysis of national and state policies. Part two presents examples of initiatives in different institutional and geographic settings, highlighting three essential elements of teacher preparation: curriculum content, program design, and program coherence. Meeting a pressing need among teacher educators left to figure out, largely by trial and error, how best to prepare non-specialist classroom teachers to work with ELLs, this book both contributes to the research base and provides practical information to help readers envision possibilities they can apply in their own settings.

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

2009
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

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  • Author: Jennifer Miller
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847692168
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

The growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools has changed the face of language teaching in many countries. This book presents theory and research by a group of internationally recognised scholars who address the issues and challenges for teachers and their students in increasingly plurilingual and multicultural classrooms.

Preparing Classroom Teachers to Succeed with Second Language Learners

2014-07-11
Preparing Classroom Teachers to Succeed with Second Language Learners

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  • Author: Thomas Levine
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135020736
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

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.

Using Understanding by Design in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom

2018-07-11
Using Understanding by Design in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom

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  • Author: Amy J. Heineke
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416626123
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

How can today’s teachers, whose classrooms are more culturally and linguistically diverse than ever before, ensure that their students achieve at high levels? How can they design units and lessons that support English learners in language development and content learning—simultaneously? Authors Amy Heineke and Jay McTighe provide the answers by adding a lens on language to the widely used Understanding by Design® framework (UbD® framework) for curriculum design, which emphasizes teaching for understanding, not rote memorization. Readers will learn * the components of the UbD framework; * the fundamentals of language and language development; * how to use diversity as a valuable resource for instruction by gathering information about students’ background knowledge from home, community, and school; * how to design units and lessons that integrate language development with content learning in the form of essential knowledge and skills; and * how to assess in ways that enable language learners to reveal their academic knowledge. Student profiles, real-life classroom scenarios, and sample units and lessons provide compelling examples of how teachers in all grade levels and content areas use the UbD framework in their culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Combining these practical examples with findings from an extensive research base, the authors deliver a useful and authoritative guide for reaching the overarching goal: ensuring that all students have equitable access to high-quality curriculum and instruction.

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners and STEAM

2019-03-01
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners and STEAM

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  • Author: Pamela Spycher
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN: 1641136073
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 413

Multilingual students, multidialectal students, and students learning English as an additional language constitute a substantial and growing demographic in the United States. But these groups of students tend to receive unequal access to and inadequate instruction in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM), with their cultural and linguistic assets going largely unacknowledged and underutilized. The need for more information about quality STEAM education for culturally and linguistically diverse students is pressing. This book seeks to address this need, with chapters from asset-oriented researchers and practitioners whose work offers promising teaching and learning approaches in the STEAM subjects in K-16 education settings. Authors share innovative ways in which classroom teachers integrate disciplinary reading, writing, discussion, and language development with content knowledge development in STEAM subjects. Also shared are approaches for integrating indigenous epistemologies, culturally sustaining pedagogy, and students’ linguistic resources and life experiences into classroom teaching. The value of quality STEAM education for all students is an equity issue, a civics issue, and an economic issue. Our technologically-driven, scientifically-oriented, innovative society should be led by diverse people with diverse ways of approaching and being in the world. This book aims to make quality STEAM education a reality for all students, taking into account the many perspectives, bodies of knowledge, and skills they bring from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, with the ultimate goal of strengthening the fields that will drive our society towards the future. There are three primary audiences for this book: teachers (both in-service and pre-service teachers), teacher educators (both pre-service preparation and professional learning); and applied researchers. Whatever their current or evolving role, readers are encouraged to use this book and the inquiry questions provided at the end of each chapter as a launching point for their own important work in achieving equity in STEAM education.

Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

2012-05-03
Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

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  • Author: Andrea Honigsfeld, PhD, associate dean, Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY
  • Publisher: R&L Education
  • ISBN: 1607098334
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

The narratives presented in Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students are rooted in classrooms, districts, communities, teacher preparation programs from around the United States and many corners of the world. The unique initiatives portrayed here represent collaborative efforts by students, teachers, administrators, professors, parents, boards of education, and global citizens who believe in change and transformation for the betterment of education.

Teaching Diverse Learners

2010-09-07
Teaching Diverse Learners

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  • Author: Amy J. Mazur
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1452271771
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 200

Practical guidelines and strategies for meeting the needs of every student in your classroom! Based on current research, legislation, and best classroom practices, this comprehensive guide helps educators effectively teach students who are culturally and linguistically diverse as well as those who have or might have special education needs. The user-friendly book offers strategies, case studies, guiding questions, activities, and tools to help PreK–12 teachers: Understand key concepts, policies, and cultural issues Set up an effective, emotionally safe classroom Adapt curriculum, instruction, and assessment to make learning accessible Collaborate with fellow professionals, families, and communities

Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education

2015-10-14
Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education

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  • Author: Marcelle M. Haddix
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 131791337X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 138

Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education examines how English and literacy teacher education—a space dominated by White, English-monolingual, middle class perspectives—shapes the experiences of preservice teachers of color and their construction of a teacher identity. Significant and timely, this book focuses attention on the unique needs and perspectives of racially and linguistically diverse preservice teachers in the field of literacy and English education and offers ways to improve teacher training to better meet the needs of preservice teachers from all racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. These changes have the potential to diversify the teacher force and cultivate teachers who bring rich racial, cultural, and linguistic histories to the field of teaching.

Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education

2013-09-13
Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education

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  • Author: Maria Estela Brisk
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135155240
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 432

Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education This volume addresses the pressing reality in teacher education that all teachers need to be prepared to work effectively with linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. Every classroom in the country is already, or will soon be, deeply affected by the changing demographics of America’s students. Marilyn Cochran-Smith’s Foreword and Donaldo Macedo’s Introductory Essay set the context with respect to teacher education and student demographics, followed by a series of chapters presented in three sections: knowledge, practice, and policy. The literature on language education has typically been discussed in relation to preparing ESL or bilingual teachers. Typically, needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students, including immigrants, refugees, language minority populations, African Americans, and deaf students, have been addressed separately. This volume emphasizes that these children have both common educational needs and needs that are culturally and linguistically specific. It is directed to the preparation of ALL teachers who work with culturally and linguistically diverse students. It not only focuses on how teachers need to change but how faculty and curriculum need to be transformed, and how to better train teacher education candidates to understand and work efficaciously with the communities in which culturally and linguistically diverse students tend to be predominant. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) is a national, voluntary association of higher education institutions and related organizations. Our mission is to promote the learning of all PK-12 students through high-quality, evidence-based preparation and continuing education for all school personnel. For more information on our publications, visit our website at: www.aacte.org.