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- To know them is to teach them
- We must maintain high standards and expectations, incorporate students' experiences into the curriculum, and use culturally relevant materials.
- By Barbara Rush.
- Play in the multilingual classroom
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 2.3
- Unstructured play is an important way for young children to make social and cultural connections. It also fosters language development and literacy skills for both English language learners and native English speakers.
- Format: article
- By Kristin De Soto Madson.
- Writing and English as a Second Language
- Strategies for helping English Language Learners throughout the writing process.
- By Frances Hoch.
- Keys to success for English language learners
- Tips that any teacher in any classroom can use to help ESL students learn the curriculum while learning English.
- By Audrey L. Heining-Boynton.
- Preparing English language learners for reading comprehension
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 1
- Use KWL charts, circle maps and brainstorming webs, and concept maps to prepare English language learners, content-area learners, and all students for reading comprehension.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Get real!
- When teaching computer proficiency to at-risk students, make classroom lessons relevant to their lives and take account of different learning styles.
- By Skip Thibault.
- Code-switching
- Code-switching is the practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts. This article explains the history of code-switching, explores important literature on the subject, and discusses approaches to language response in the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Greeting your limited English proficient students in their own language
- Even a simple "Hello" or "How are you today?" can help to integrate a student into a new environment. This article offers strategies and tools for teachers wishing to learn a few words of a new language.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Making reading passages comprehensible for English language learners
- English language learners can read the same content-area material as their peers, but may need special help. Teachers can make difficult reading comprehensible by building vocabulary, decoding difficult syntax, and teaching background knowledge.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Gifted?
- It is important for gifted children to be with other gifted children, the more often the better.
- By Cathy Kroninger.
- Cooperative learning
- Cooperative learning is an instructional method in which students work together in small, heterogeneous groups to complete a problem, project, or other instructional goal, while teachers act as guides or facilitators. This method works to reinforce a student's...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Assessing the learning process
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 3
- Assessment, like instruction, needs to be geared toward various learning styles, and teachers can create rubrics for ongoing assessment that keep a formal daily record of what students are learning.
- By Gretchen Buher and David Walbert.
- Culturally relevant teaching
- Culturally relevant teaching is a term created by Gloria Ladson-Billings (1994) to describe "a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes."
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- When teachers don't understand
- Teaching should be informed not only by the content of the discipline but also by the lives of the students.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Climbing the school ladder: A challenging task for immigrant Latino students
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 1.1
- Teachers play a critical role when helping immigrant children adjust to a new school life. Because immigrants' backgrounds and experiences are so diverse, it is important for teachers no to make assumptions and to get to know individual children.
- By Magda Corredor.
- Teach what you love
- Stephen Mullaney works as a half-time ESL resource teacher/half-time second grade language arts teacher at Club Boulevard Elementary in Durham. This article focuses on his advice for teachers working with ESL students.
- By Sydney Brown.
- Why study a foreign language?
- Foreign language study enhances academic skills, raises SAT scores, and prepares students for careers.
- By Bernadette Morris.
- Deficit thinking
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 4.2
- Teachers frequently attribute the academic struggles of English language learners to the students' inability or unwillingness to learn English, but this "deficit thinking" can better be replaced by a focus on what immigrant students bring to the classroom.
- By Buck Cooper.
- Reaching Latinos through social studies
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 4.1
- Teachers can help immigrant students feel more comfortable in the classroom by basing social studies lessons on students' own knowledge and backgrounds.
- By Paul Fitchett.
- A room for students
- A learning environment where students feel that they belong is the key to success for this eighth-grade language arts teacher. A classroom profile.
- By Kathleen Casson.
