Bilingual Education category: 1602 books
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction
To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation—until...
How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You
Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Engage diverse learners in your classroom with culturally responsive instruction!
This second edition includes new or expanded coverage of Latino students, ELLs, immigrant students, race, and racial identity, and new coverage of standards-based, culturally responsive lesson planning and instruction,...
Teach! Change! Empower!
Solutions for Closing the Achievement Gaps
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Change your practices to close achievement gaps! Develop action plans for promoting culturally relevant curriculum and environments, social-political consciousness, and student involvement.
by Istvan Kecskes, T?nde Papp
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
This is the first book that discusses the effect of foreign language learning on first language processing. The authors argue that multilingual development is a dynamic and cumulative process characterized by transfer of different nature, and results in a common underlying conceptual base with two...
by David J Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Want to learn English the easy way, even though you think the grammar is difficult?
Are you finding it difficult to understand grammatical terms?
Author David J Cooper, a retired English language teacher, saw the countless guides out there for those wanting to study English.
After...
by Nicolae Sfetcu
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
A guide for translators, about the translation theory, the translation process, interpreting, subtitling, internationalization and localization and computer-assisted translation. A special section is dedicated to the translator's education and associations.
The guide include, as annexes, several...
Courageous Conversations About Race
A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
Create a systemwide plan for transforming the district office, schools, and classrooms into places that truly support ALL students achieving their highest levels!
This updated edition of the bestseller continues to explain the need for candid, courageous conversations about race so that educators...
English and Development
Policy, Pedagogy and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This book investigates the relationship between English and personal and national development, as this is both discursively promoted (particularly through language policy) and practically realized in developing societies. It addresses the effects that the increased use of English and the promotion...
Dual-Language Learners
Strategies for Teaching English
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Growing research shows that many children from immigrant and refugee families are not doing well in school, due in part to linguistic and cultural disadvantages. Teaching dual-language learners requires cultural sensitivity, an understanding of language acquisition, and intentional teaching strategies....
The Missing Voices in EdTech
Bringing Diversity Into EdTech
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Making tech decisions from a diverse space starts here!
This book offers leaders and teachers a reflective journey into diverse perspectives on technology as it is used and understood in our schools. Through step-by-step strategies and powerful vignettes, Rafranz Davis explores the deep impact...
Opening Doors
An Implementation Template for Cultural Proficiency
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
See how one school district made cultural proficiency real—and how you can too!
This book tells the story of Ventura Unified School District's successful implementation of cultural proficiency, which opened long-closed doors for marginalized students and returned gains on every key success...
Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language
A Handbook for Supervisors
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
The relationship of supervisor to student has traditionally been seen as one of apprenticeship, in which much learning is tacit, with the expectation that the student will become much like the tutor. The changing demographics of higher education in conjunction with imperatives of greater accountability...
The ELL Teacher's Toolbox
Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Practical strategies to support your English language learners
The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox is a practical, valuable resource to be used by teachers of English Language Learners, in teacher education credential programs, and by staff development professionals and coaches. It provides hundreds...
by Olga Fogarty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Spanish Grammar rules are tricky. This ebook will teach you in great detail and simple steps, the rules to help you to learn Spanish grammar effectively. You will learn grammar structures in 25 easy to follow lessons and 4 added appendices, all illustrated with plenty of examples to make sure you...