Focusing on the importance of family engagement, this guide offers essential strategies for English language educators working with learners from Kindergarten to adulthood. It outlines six key fundamentals for building and maintaining partnerships with families, providing practical applications and activities for immediate use. The resource also includes tips to help families of English learners thrive and access to a companion website with additional online resources.
The book addresses the challenges educators face in meeting the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students while adhering to standard curricula. It presents a balanced approach that promotes academic language proficiency alongside the appreciation and validation of students' home languages and cultures. By emphasizing culturally responsive schooling, it aims to create an inclusive educational environment that respects diversity and fosters effective learning for all students.
We want students to master academic standards, and we want them to be confident, adaptive, and socially responsible. Above all, we want them to find meaning and satisfaction in their lives. Achieving these goals requires a concerted focus on the social-emotional skills that empower students in and beyond the classroom. In Teaching to Empower, Debbie Zacarian and Michael Silverstone explore what an empowered student looks like in our increasingly diverse contemporary schools and prompt educators to examine their own relationship to empowerment. The book's evidence-based strategies and authentic examples show you how to foster an inclusive culture of agency, self-confidence, and collaboration that will give each of your students—regardless of race, culture, language, socioeconomic status, abilities, sexuality, or gender—the opportunity, responsibility, and tools to become an active learner, thoughtful community member, and engaged global citizen. Whether you're a preservice teacher, a classroom novice, or a veteran, you'll find the practical guidance you'll need to* Create inclusive and empowering physical learning spaces.* Set up self-directed learning and promote positive interdependence.* Promote student self-reflection.* Teach the skills of collaboration.* Foster the self-advocacy that fuels deeper, more autonomous learning.* Partner more effectively with families and the community to support student empowerment.
Focusing on the integration of social-emotional learning (SEL) in English language education, this practical zip guide offers educators essential insights into the six fundamentals of SEL tailored for English learners. It provides strategies to enhance social-emotional language and literacy, alongside tips and activities designed to help English learners thrive. Organized around CASEL's competencies and TESOL's teaching principles, the guide serves as a valuable resource for educators seeking to enrich their classroom practices with SEL principles.
Focusing on the importance of family involvement, this guide offers English language educators essential strategies for engaging with families of English learners from Kindergarten through adulthood. It outlines six key fundamentals for building and sustaining partnerships, provides practical applications for educators, and shares tips and activities to foster family support. Additionally, a companion website offers online resources to enhance the learning experience. This resource aims to empower both educators and families to contribute effectively to children's success.
This comprehensive zip guide is designed for English language educators seeking to integrate social-emotional learning (SEL) into their classrooms. It outlines the six fundamentals of SEL tailored for English learners, offering practical applications and strategies to enhance language and literacy learning. The guide also includes valuable tips and activities, all organized around CASEL's competencies and TESOL's principles for effective teaching. Its compact and user-friendly format makes it an essential resource for fostering the social-emotional growth of English learners.
A Framework for Supporting Student Achievement
Mastering academic language is crucial for student success, and this book provides essential strategies for teachers to support their students effectively. It emphasizes the importance of bridging the achievement gap through targeted scaffolding of instruction, enabling educators to enhance their students' language skills. By focusing on practical approaches, the book aims to empower teachers to help all students thrive academically, regardless of their language background.
Provides a comprehensive approach for building coalitions of support around student learning and engagement through interconnected classroom community- building effort.
Essential principles, practices, and structures for multilingual learners Much has changed in the ten years since this book was first published. A celebrated triumph, it provided state, district, school, and teacher leaders with a comprehensive guide to support multilingual learners to reach their full potential. From selecting the appropriate program model to partnering with families and infusing federal and state laws governing the education of multilingual learners and the rights of their families into all we do, the key messages that made the first edition of this book a renowned success have been re-examined in the second edition with a robust lens to meet these demanding times.This second edition supports educators to design and enact policies, practices, and structures for multilingual learners (MLs) to feel a sense of safety, belonging, value, and competence.Topics explored in the book Reflecting changing trends in leadership, this new edition supports superintendents, principals, curriculum supervisors, coaches, mentors, teachers, and other stakeholders in their collaborative efforts to create and sustain successful language assistance programs.