Author: María Estela Brisk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-04-21
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1135618402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This textbook for bilingual educators presents research-based guidelines and examples for implementing quality bilingual education.
Author: National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1997-04-16
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 0309175453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do we effectively teach children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken? In Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children, a committee of experts focuses on this central question, striving toward the construction of a strong and credible knowledge base to inform the activities of those who educate children as well as those who fund and conduct research. The book reviews a broad range of studiesâ€"from basic ones on language, literacy, and learning to others in educational settings. The committee proposes a research agenda that responds to issues of policy and practice yet maintains scientific integrity. This comprehensive volume provides perspective on the history of bilingual education in the United States; summarizes relevant research on development of a second language, literacy, and content knowledge; reviews past evaluation studies; explores what we know about effective schools and classrooms for these children; examines research on the education of teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse students; critically reviews the system for the collection of education statistics as it relates to this student population; and recommends changes in the infrastructure that supports research on these students.
Author: Heidi Andrade
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-04-02
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 113528394X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Handbook of Formative Assessment comprehensively profiles this burgeoning field of study. Written by leading international scholars and practitioners, each chapter discusses key issues in formative assessment policy and practice.
Author: Lorrie Stoops Verplaetse
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1351563041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this Handbook leading researchers, teacher educators, and expert practitioners speak to current and future educators and educational leaders in understandable language about the research that informs best practices for English language learners integrated into the K-12 public school system. Responding to current state and federal mandates that require educators to link their practices to sound research results, it is designed to help educators to define, select, and defend realistic educational practices that include and serve well their English language learning student populations. A critical and distinctive feature of this volume is its non-technical language that is accessible to general educators who have not been trained in the fields of second-language development and applied linguistics. Each chapter begins with a thorough discussion of the recommended practices, followed by a description of the research that supports these practices. The rigor of reported research is contained, but this research is written in a lay person’s terminology, accompanied by bibliographies for readers who wish to read about the research in technical detail. The volume is structured around four themes: • In the Elementary Classroom • In the Middle and Secondary Classroom • School and Community Collaboration • School and District Reform. Inclusive Pedagogy for English Language Learners is intended for current and future educational administrators, all educators who have a keen interest in school reform at the classroom, school, or district level, and staff developers, policy makers, parents and community groups, and anyone interested in the successful education of linguistically and culturally diverse students.
Author: Roland Tharp
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0429976577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The social organization of teaching and learning, particularly in classrooms, has not yet been recognized as a foundational element of education. However, social constructionist views of human development, cognition, and schooling, as well as the increasing challenges of cultural and linguistic diversity, make it a vital concern for teachers, researchers, and policymakers. This book introduces the concept of educational social organization, assembles the pertinent theory and evidence, and suggests future directions for training and policy. }The four goals of school reform--academic excellence, fairness, inclusion and harmony--can be achieved simultaneously, by transforming the final common pathway of all school reform--instructional activity. Teaching Transformed is a new vision for classrooms, based on consensus research findings and unified practice prescriptions, explained and justified by new developments in sociocultural theory, and clarified by an explicit five-phase developmental guide for achieving that transformation. Teaching Transformed is both visionary and practical, both theoretical and data-driven, and determined to create effective education for all students. Professional educators, parents, and any reader concerned with saving our schools will find this book necessary to understand our current plight, and to envision a realistic means of transformation.
Author: James P. Lantolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0194423069
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. Specific topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar; sociocultural theory as a theory of second language learning; gestural mediation in a second language; and constructing a self through a second language.
Author: Alfino Flores
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Series is designed to help teachers support high quality mathematics learning for diverse student populations. The instructional strategies presented reflect that diversity comes in various forms and that students come to the classroom with a range of needs, backgrounds, expertise, and experience. Gr.9-12.