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Educating Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Learners: New Approaches to Practice in Teacher Education

Sun, April 10, 2:45 to 4:15pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Two, Marquis Salon 17

Session Type: Symposium

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Until relatively recently, the doing of practice has not been a focus of university teacher education programs. Rather than careful identification of certain key practices, and detailed examination of enactment of those practices, teacher education has instead proffered a wide menu of methods, and has engaged novice teachers (NTs) in talking about practice. In this session, presenters explore how teacher educators are increasingly recognizing the importance of a careful and concentrated focus on practice, and how important this examination of enacting practice is for supporting both ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) specialists and classroom teachers to work with English learners (ELs), through both ESOL practices that cut across content areas, and content-specific practices that support EL learning.

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