Teaching immigrant and second-language students
Subtitle: strategies for success
By: edited by Michael Sadowski.
Contributors: Sadowski, Michael.
Series: Spotlight series -- no. 2; Spotlight series (Cambridge, Mass.) -- no. 2.
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Linguistic minorities -- Education -- United States; Immigrant children -- Education -- United States; Education, Bilingual -- United States; Bilingualism in children -- United States; Education, Elementary -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : teaching the new generaltion of U.S. students / Michael Sadowski; title: Teaching in the context of English-language learners : what do we need to know? / Donald Freeman; title: Assessing young immigrant students : are we finding their strengths? / Evangeline Harris Stefanakis; title: Teaching English-language learners "The language game of math" : insights for teachers and teacher educators / Meg Gebhard, Andrew Habana Hafner, and Mary Wright; title: Trapezoids, estuaries, and kudzu : what English-language learners face on high-stakes tests; title: and how educators can help / Mary T. Jeannot; title: Nurturing "The writer's voice" : helping students construct a self in a new language and culture / Greta Vollmer; title: How schools can help refugee students / Shaun Sutner; title: Teaching migrant students : lessons from successful districts / Reino Makkonen; title: Raising the achievement of English-language learners : how principlas can make a difference / Maricel G. Santos; title: Bringing parents on board : building strong home-school connections with immigrant families / Sue Miller Wiltz; title: On nobody's agenda : improving English-language learners' access to higher education / Rebecca M. Callahan and Patricia Gándara.