Participants discuss strategies for creating learning communities and strategies for learning developed through participation in the course. This workshop is designed to raise awareness about techniques to identify and confront prejudice using film, television, and print. These techniques are applicable to ESL and mainstream students. The presenters introduce how to deal with hot topics and demonstrate how students can safely examine their own attitudes. Presenters provide a national portrait of the preparation teachers receive to teach English language learners.
Participants receive information about U.S. bilingual education teacher preparation programs.
This description includes students' analyses of cultural power relations, cultural changes, classroom dynamics and processes, and their perceptions and uses of computer technology within these cultural processes. Handouts include pedagogical suggestions that arise from the research-based insights. The pedagogy of TESL courses undergoes dramatic changes if the means of course delivery is through a Web-based course. The presenter explores classroom dilemmas of Japanese preservice English teachers through recall comments elicited by videotaped lessons, journals and interviews. The presenter portrays noteworthy dilemmas from three similar lessons and hypothesizes that some dilemmas are inherent in traditional training practices.