Overview
This book incorporates teaching and learning strategies taken from exemplary bilingual education and ESL programs throughout the nation. It helps teachers understand the critical aspects of adapting instruction to ensure that multilingual students have access to, and are able to participate in, all aspects of classroom learning. By presenting ways for teachers to alter the existing social organization in their classrooms, this book outlines a plan to improve teaching and learning, so that all students can work more effectively with parents and adults—regardless of their language background. The book details principles of second language acquisition by providing the instructional tools needed to facilitate language development within large and small group settings. It offers strategies for teaching children with limited or no English proficiency to simultaneously learn English as they learn content. For practitioners who teach a multicultural curriculum, or English as a second language.Synopsis
This book incorporates teaching and learning strategies taken from exemplary bilingual education and ESL programs throughout the nation. It helps teachers understand the critical aspects of adapting instruction to ensure that multilingual students have access to, and are able to participate in, all aspects of classroom learning. By presenting ways for teachers to alter the existing social organization in their classrooms, this book outlines a plan to improve teaching and learning, so that all students can work more effectively with parents and adults—regardless of their language background. The book details principles of second language acquisition by providing the instructional tools needed to facilitate language development within large and small group settings. It offers strategies for teaching children with limited or no English proficiency to simultaneously learn English as they learn content. For practitioners who teach a multicultural curriculum, or English as a second language.