Teaching - Teacher Training, Educational Program Components, Bilingual Education, Education - Parent & Teacher Relationships
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Overview
Designed specifically for mainstream, monolingual elementary school teachers, this book explores methods and strategies for teaching in a multilingual classroom where children are learning to speak English at the same time as they are learning content. Very clearly written, with an abundance of realistic examples, it explains how ESL children participate in, and benefit from, school activities and how teachers can adapt strategies to improve the participation of ESL students in all activities. Presents strategies for teaching as well as a foundation for working with children with limited or no English proficiency simultaneously learning English as they learn content. Explores cultural differences that contribute to communication differences in the classroom. Focuses on the concept of joinfostering- planning and implementation of instruction that promotes communication and social integration within linguistically diverse classrooms. Presents many teaching and learning strategies found in exemplary bilingual education and ESL programs throughout the U.S. Shows ways to work toward more effective interaction with the parents of their students, regardless of the parents' language background. Lots of new examples of classroom activities promote oral and written language participation for ESL readers are provided.Book Details
Published
November 19, 1996
Publisher
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Merrill, c1997.
Pages
196
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780132381635