Bilingual Education category: 1602 books
Culturally Proficient Coaching
Supporting Educators to Create Equitable Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2006
***Get the solution to the equity equation: cultural insight plus coaching! ***
To arm educators with the tools necessary to close the achievement gap, this straightforward guide blends the Five Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency with the Five States of Mind of Cognitive CoachingSM....
Language, Culture, and Teaching
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic...
Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades 6–12
A Compass for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Chart your course with the Gallavan cultural competence compass
All children have one important thing in common—the need to be treated with dignity, respect, and care. This handbook shows teachers and administrators how to ensure that the cultures of all peoples are considered and valued....
Identity Safe Classrooms
Places to Belong and Learn
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Every child valued and empowered to learn—this book shows you how!
This book focuses on strategies that positively affect student learning and attachment to schooling, in spite of social inequalities. Research shows that students in identity safe classrooms learn better and like school more than...
Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society
Beyond Linguistic Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved. This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of certain languages through cultural genocide by dominant European colonizers...
Building Culturally Responsive Classrooms
A Guide for K-6 Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2006
The author shows how teachers honoring real culture can transform the context and content within their classrooms while creating learning settings that challenge students academically.
by Dr. Mary Ann Lachat
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
In increasingly diverse classrooms, an understanding of standards-based instruction and assessment for ELLs is essential for achieving both excellence and equity in our education system.
Yes, You Can!
Advice for Teachers Who Want a Great Start and a Great Finish With Their Students of Color
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
***An all-in-one toolkit that empowers new teachers to meet the needs of diverse learners ***
In this book, renowned experts give novice teachers the self-confidence and empathy they need to address what may be their greatest challenge: guiding disadvantaged students to success in the classroom....
Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue
Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
The legacy of English teaching and Christian missionaries is a flashpoint within the field of English language teaching. This critical examination of the place of Christianity in the field is unique in presenting the voices of TESOL professionals from a wide range of religious and spiritual perspectives....
Educating African American Males
Voices From the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Bringing unique perspectives from the field, this resource offers multiple perspectives on African American male achievement from top scholars in the field of urban education.
by Donna E. Walker Tileston
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
This updated edition presents critical information about teaching diverse learners, including brain-compatible teaching strategies, six signs of bias to avoid, how culture affects learning styles, and more.
A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish
Intercultural competence on the gringo trail?
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The premise that intercultural contact produces intercultural competence underpins much rationalization of backpacker tourism and in-country language education. However, if insufficiently problematized, pre-existing constructions of cultural 'otherness' may hinder intercultural competence development....
Critical ELT in Action
Foundations, Promises, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Uniquely bridging theory and practice, this text introduces and overviews the various domains associated with the term critical pedagogy in the field of TESOL/ELT. Critical pedagogy addresses concepts, values, curriculum, instructional and associated practices involved in language teaching for social...
Language Policy in Schools
A Resource for Teachers and Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Language Policy in Schools provides school administrators and teachers a practical approach for designing a language policy for their school and for dealing with the language issues that confront schools, particularly those operating in settings of linguistic and cultural diversity. It can be used...