Developed through a collaborative process involving hundreds of ESL teachers, researchers, administrators, and language specialists, the standards will provide national coherence for students and the educators who serve them. Barbara Agor, Editor. 3-5 Katharine Davies Samway, Editor. The four volumes in Integrating the ESL Standards Into Classroom Practice show teachers how to use the standards. Each volume contains six units, some designed with a particular grade level or proficiency level in mind, others designed to span grade and proficiency levels.
Some units are for very specific contexts, and some are more general.
All the units are adaptable to other levels and contexts and include suggestions for how teachers might adapt them to other classroom situations. This comprehensive text offers background information on reading, ESL instruction, and ESL learners as well as specific instructional strategies recommended by experts. Overseeing English as a second language instruction can be a lonely profession, as those who provide ESL services in U.S. rural and small urban communities can readily attest. Managing ESL Programs in Rural and Small Urban Schools offers aid and comfort to that audience. This volume describes how a small program of services can fit into the standards movement and how to staff such a program.