Teacher preparation for linguistically diverse classrooms
Subtitle: a resource for teacher educators
By: edited by Tamara Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780415997911; 9780415997928; 9780203843239
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Language, schooling, and the preparation of teachers for linguistic diversity / Tamara Lucas; title: English language learners in American schools: characteristics and challenges / Guadalupe Valdés and Martha Castellón; title: Preparing teachers for English language learners: the policy context / Ana María Villegas and Tamara Lucas; title: A framework for preparing linguistically responsive teachers / Tamara Lucas and Ana María Villegas; title: "Accommodating diversity": preservice teachers' views on effective practices for English language learners / Ester J. de Jong and Candace A. Harper; title: Systemic functional linguistics, teachers' professional development, and ELLs' academic literacy practices / Meg Gebhard ... [et al.]; title: "We've let them in on the secret": using SFL theory to improve the teaching of writing to bilingual learners / María Estela Brisk and Margarita Zisselsberger; title: Preparing teachers to reach English language learners: preservice and inservice initiatives / Constance Walker and Karla Stone; title: Fostering collaboration between mainstream and bilingual teachers and teacher candidates / Karen Sakash and Flora Rodriguez-Brown; title: The growth of teacher expertise for teaching English language learners: a socioculturally-based professional development model / Aída Walqui; title: Toward culturally and linguistically responsive teacher education: the impact of a faculty learning community on two teacher educators / Mileidis Gort, Wendy Glenn, and John Settlage; title: Toward program-wide coherence in preparing teachers to teach and advocate for English language learners / Steven Z. Athanases and Luciana de Oliveira; title: Toward the transformation of teacher education to prepare all teachers for linguistically diverse classrooms / Tamara Lucas.