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Redesigning Curriculum and Instruction to Meet the Needs of English Language Learners in Content Areas
Sun, April 15, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Fairmont Waterfront, Floor: Concourse Level, MalaspinaSession Submission Type: Paper Session
Abstract
This session addresses innovative approaches in ways to prepare elementary and secondary teachers to work with ELLs in content areas and inventive curricular and instructional strategies in-service teachers use in teaching ELLs content subjects. Specific studies examine the preparation of literacy, science, and biology teachers; other studies examine general preparation of teachers and practices of teacher educators.
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Papers
How English Language Learners’ Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Figures in Literacy Instruction: Perspectives From In-Service ESL (English as a Second Language) Teachers - Jing Fu, Michigan State University
Reverberating Chords: Implications of Preservice Teachers’ Touchstones in Contemporary Multicultural Literature for Change in Schools - Teresa Jean Strong-Wilson, McGill University; Ingrid Johnston, University of Alberta; Lynne Wiltse, University of Alberta; Anne Michelle Burke, Memorial University; Heather Ann Phipps, McGill University; Ismel Gonzalez, Lakehead University
Teach the Students Not the Course: Preparing Secondary Content Teacher to Teach English Learners - Laura Schall-Leckrone, Boston College; Christina M. Pavlak, Boston College
Teaching Academic Language in High School Biology Through Coteaching - James F. Nagle, Saint Michael's College; Rita MacDonald, University of Wisconsin - Madison