Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

Abstract

Foreword, Ken Zeichner Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Conceptual and Contextual Foundations 1. Language, Schooling, and the Preparation of Teachers for Linguistic Diversity, Tamara Lucas 2. English Language Learners in American Schools: Characteristics and Challenges, Guadalupe Valdes and Martha Castellon 3. Preparing Teachers for English Language Learners: The Policy Context, Ana Maria Villegas and Tamara Lucas Part II. Developing Teacher Expertise for Educating English Language Learners Curriculum Content 4. A Framework for Preparing Linguistically Responsive Teachers, Tamara Lucas and Ana Maria Villegas 5. Accommodating Diversity: Preservice Teachers' Views on Effective Practices for English Language Learners, Ester J. de Jong and Candace A. Harper 6. Systemic Functional Linguistics, Teachers' Professional Development, and ELLs' Academic Literacy Practices, Meg Gebhard, Jerri Willett, Juan Pablo Jimenez, and Amy Piedra 7. We've Let Them in on the Secret: Using SFL Theory to Improve the Teaching of Writing to Bilingual Learners, Maria Estela Brisk and Margarita Zisselsberger Program Design 8. Preparing Teachers to Reach English Language Learners: Preservice and Inservice Initiatives, Constance Walker and Karla Stone 9. Fostering Collaboration Between Mainstream and Bilingual Teachers and Teacher Candidates, Karen Sakash and Flora Rodriguez-Brown 10. The Growth of Teacher Expertise for Teaching English Language Learners: A Socioculturally-Based Professional Development Model, Aida Walqui 11. Toward Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teacher Education: The Impact of a Faculty Learning Community on Two Teacher Educators, Mileidis Gort, Wendy Glenn, and John Settlage Program Coherence 12. Toward Program-Wide Coherence in Preparing Teachers to Teach and Advocate for English Language Learners, Steven Z. Athanases and Luciana de Oliveira Conclusion 13. Toward the Transformation of Teacher Education to Prepare All Teachers for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms, Tamara Lucas, Montclair State University About the Authors Index