Teacher Preparation for Bilingual Student Populations
Title | Teacher Preparation for Bilingual Student Populations PDF eBook |
Author | Belinda Bustos Flores |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1136966102 |
The growing number of bilingual students in public schools coupled with a critical shortage of teachers specially prepared to serve this population calls for a critical examination of policies and practices in bilingual and ESL teacher preparation. This volume focuses on understanding the structural, substantive, and contextual elements of preparation programs, and provides transformative guidelines for creating Educar signature programs. Designed to improve the practice of teacher preparation by promoting dialogic conversations and applications of praxis in the preparation of bilingual/ESL teacher candidates, it emphasizes that exemplary teacher preparation requires transformative teacher educators. Simultaneously organizing the scholarship in the field and advancing new understandings, this book is must-have resource for current and future teacher educators. Contributors include Maria Brisk, Sylvia Celédon-Pattichis, Lourdes Diaz-Soto, Eugene García, Virginia Gonzáles, Guillermo Solano-Flores, Maria Torres-Guzman, Carmen Mercado, Bertha Pérez, Mari Riojas-Cortez, Francisco Rios, Concepción Valadez, and Angela Valenzuela.
Dual Language Bilingual Education
Title | Dual Language Bilingual Education PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn I. Henderson |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2020-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1788928105 |
This book explores the role of the teacher in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) implementation in a time of nationwide program expansion, in large part due to new and unprecedented top-down initiatives at state and district level. The book provides case studies of DLBE teachers who: (a) implemented the DLBE model with fidelity; (b) struggled to implement the DLBE model; and (c) adapted the DLBE model to meet the needs of their local classroom context. The book demonstrates the way teachers as language policymakers navigate and interpret district-wide DLBE implementation and the tensions that surface through this process. The research, conducted over four years using a variety of methods, highlights the challenges and opportunities faced by teachers implementing DLBE, and will be of interest to both teachers and administrators of DLBE programs as well as scholars working in bilingual education.
Crafting Culturally Efficacious Teacher Preparation and Pedagogies
Title | Crafting Culturally Efficacious Teacher Preparation and Pedagogies PDF eBook |
Author | Belinda Bustos Flores |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2018-03-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1498545394 |
Crafting Culturally Efficacious Pedagogies and Practices is based on cultural efficaciousness derived from the work of the nationally recognized Academy for Teacher Excellence at The University of Texas at San Antonio. The book is grounded in a research-based model, situated within the needs of the school-local community, and based on collaborative partnerships. Given the under-representation of ethnic/racial minority teachers, to accomplish social justice, all teachers must become culturally efficacious. In this book, authors provide an overview of the culturally efficacious evolution model used to anchor teacher preparation and present the culturally efficacious observation protocol as a tool to assess teachers’ development. The authors present four exemplar case studies of culturally efficacious teachers who have a strong identity, a positive teaching cultural efficacy, are critical reflective thinkers, and believe that they can make difference in minority students’ lives. As culturally efficacious teachers, these educators are also committed to social justice and equitable education. Cross-case findings reveal that the critical teacher development model serves as a culturally sustainable pedagogy that effectively prepares teachers in the field.
Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education
Title | Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Estela Brisk |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135155232 |
Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education This volume addresses the pressing reality in teacher education that all teachers need to be prepared to work effectively with linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. Every classroom in the country is already, or will soon be, deeply affected by the changing demographics of America’s students. Marilyn Cochran-Smith’s Foreword and Donaldo Macedo’s Introductory Essay set the context with respect to teacher education and student demographics, followed by a series of chapters presented in three sections: knowledge, practice, and policy. The literature on language education has typically been discussed in relation to preparing ESL or bilingual teachers. Typically, needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students, including immigrants, refugees, language minority populations, African Americans, and deaf students, have been addressed separately. This volume emphasizes that these children have both common educational needs and needs that are culturally and linguistically specific. It is directed to the preparation of ALL teachers who work with culturally and linguistically diverse students. It not only focuses on how teachers need to change but how faculty and curriculum need to be transformed, and how to better train teacher education candidates to understand and work efficaciously with the communities in which culturally and linguistically diverse students tend to be predominant. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) is a national, voluntary association of higher education institutions and related organizations. Our mission is to promote the learning of all PK-12 students through high-quality, evidence-based preparation and continuing education for all school personnel. For more information on our publications, visit our website at: www.aacte.org.
Status Report on Bilingual-crosscultural Teacher Preparation in Accordance with California Education Code Section 10101
Title | Status Report on Bilingual-crosscultural Teacher Preparation in Accordance with California Education Code Section 10101 PDF eBook |
Author | California Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Education, Bilingual |
ISBN |
Learning from Emergent Bilingual Latinx Learners in K-12
Title | Learning from Emergent Bilingual Latinx Learners in K-12 PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo C. Ramirez |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2017-11-03 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1317225392 |
In this volume, scholars, researchers, and teacher educators from across the United States present their latest findings regarding teacher education to develop meaningful learning experiences and meet the sociocultural, linguistic, and academic needs of Latino ELLs. The book documents how teacher education programs guide teachers to engage in culturally and linguistically diverse academic contexts and sheds light on the variety of research-based theoretical frameworks that inform teaching practices. A unique contribution to the field, Learning from Emergent Bilingual Latinx Learners in K-12 provides innovative approaches for linking Latino school communities with teachers at a time when demographic shifts are considerably altering population trends in the K-12 educational system.
Teacher Leadership for Social Change in Bilingual and Bicultural Education
Title | Teacher Leadership for Social Change in Bilingual and Bicultural Education PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah K. Palmer |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2018-08-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1788921453 |
Leadership takes on a tone of urgency when we are struggling for justice. At the same time, the right to lead – the agency to embrace a leadership identity – can also feel more distant when we are marginalized by the dominant society. For bilingual education teachers working with immigrant communities, the development of critical consciousness, pride in the cultural and linguistic resources of the bilingual community, the vocabulary to name and face marginalization, and a strong professional network are fundamental to their development of professional identities as leaders and advocates. Based on the experiences of 53 Spanish-English bilingual teachers in Central Texas, this book aims to explore, define, and understand bilingual teacher leadership. It merges the themes of leadership, teacher preparation and bilingual education and is essential reading for bilingual or ESL teachers, teacher educators and researchers serving an increasingly transnational/translingual student body.