One thing I want to do before I head back to the classroom is look through all the materials I’ve read and used in teacher education. These are supposedly ‘best practices’ and things that every teacher is supposed to be able to do. In my time at the University, I have embraced and regurgitated many of these ideas. What I’m interested in finding out is how these actually play out when I’m teaching.
Tellez, K. & Waxman, H.C. (2006). Preparing quality teachers for English language learners: An overview of critical issues. In K.Tellez & H.C. Waxman (Eds.), Preparing quality educators for English language learners: Research, policies and practices (pp. 1-22). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- The authors criticize teachers who see language as disconnected from culture and don’t help student negotiate the tension between their home and new cultures.
- Seven instructional strategies associated with high academic achievement for ELLs
- collaborative learning and community building
- multiple representations
- assess and build on prior knowledge
- instructional conversations
- culturally responsive instruction
- cognitively guided instruction
- technology rich instruction
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