Implementing Effective Instruction for English Language Learners: 12 Key Practices for Administrators, Teachers, and Leadership Teams

by Suzanne Wagner, Tamara King

Overview

This book provides step-by-step guidance for district-wide committees, school leadership teams, and teacher teams committed to ensuring that the ELLs in their classes, schools, and districts are successful and can reach high core-content and English language development standards.

Implementing Effective Instruction for English Language Learners takes a comprehensive, systemic, and strategic approach to educating all students, particularly ELLs. The 12 Key Practices Framework is divided into four parts:

• Shared practices at the district, school, and classroom levels
• Common classroom practices for all ELL educators
• Core instructional practices of every program for ELLs
• Organizing the key practices into effective program configurations

Administrators, teachers, and leadership teams can use the 12 Key Practices Framework and checklists to plan, implement, monitor, evaluate, and improve ELL education in their districts and schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934000106
Publisher:	Caslon Inc.
Publication date:	07/23/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Wagner, Ph.D., has been a bilingual educator for more than 30 years. She has taught English as a second language, worked as a high school bilingual coordinator, and as a Title VII program director. As a specialist at the Illinois Resource Center in Arlington Heights, Wagner has taught courses, conducted workshops, and provided professional development for teachers and administrators in school districts throughout Illinois and nationwide.

Tamara (Tammy) King, M.A., is an education specialist at the Illinois Resource Center in Arlington Heights where she focuses on program design and improvement—especially in multilingual settings and districts with small numbers of English language learners. Bilingual in Spanish, she has worked as an elementary bilingual and English as a second language (ESL) teacher, an adult ESL teacher, and a language education program coordinator in a large, linguistically diverse school district. King is a WIDA-certified trainer and writes for the WIDA blog. She is also a wife and the mother of a precocious toddler.

Table of Contents

The Key Practices Framework


Part I: Shared Practices at the District, School, and Classroom Levels

KEY PRACTICE 1 Structuring Equitable School and Classroom Environments

KEY PRACTICE 2 Educating English Language Learners through Collaboration

KEY PRACTICE 3 Implementing a Balanced Student Assessment System

KEY PRACTICE 4 Embracing an Additive Bilingualism Perspective


Part II: Common Classroom Practices for All English Language Learner Educators

KEY PRACTICE 5 Using Big Ideas to Plan Instruction

KEY PRACTICE 6 Implementing Meaningful Vocabulary-Building Instruction

KEY PRACTICE 7 Activating Students' Prior Knowledge

KEY PRACTICE 8 Structuring Student Interaction


Part III: Core Instructional Practices of Every Program for English Language Learners

KEY PRACTICE 9 Implementing English as a Second Language Instruction

KEY PRACTICE 10 Implementing Meaning-Based Literacy Instruction

KEY PRACTICE 11 Implementing Comprehensible Academic Content Instruction


Part IV: Organizing the Key Practices into Effective Program Configurations

KEY PRACTICE 12 Structuring the Language Education Program


Glossary

References

Twelve Key Practices Framework