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CoTeaching and Other Collaborative Practices in The EFL/ESL Classroom

April 20, 2022 by marie

Much has been written about the cognitive and academic language needs of those learning English as a new language (be it a second language in the United States or other Englishspeaking countries or as a foreign language in all other parts of the world). Many guidebooks and professional development materials have been produced on teacher collaboration and coteaching for special education, inclusive classrooms. Similarly, much has been published about effective strategies teachers can use to offer more culturally and linguistically responsive instruction to their language learners. However, only a few resources are available to help general education teachers and ESL (Englishasasecondlanguage) specialists, or two Englishasaforeignlanguage (EFL) teachers (such as native and nonnative English speaking) teachers to collaborate effectively.

With this volume, our goal is to offer an accessible resource, longawaited by educators whose individual instructional practice and/or institutional paradigm shifted to a more collaborative approach to language education. Through this collection of chapters, we closely examine ESL/EFL coteaching and other collaborative practices by (a) exploring the rationale for teacher collaboration to support ESL/EFL instruction, (b) presenting current, classroombased, practitioneroriented research studies and documentary accounts related to coteaching, coplanning, coassessing, curriculum alignment, teacher professional development, and additional collaborative practices, and (c) offering authentic teacher reflections and recommendations on collaboration and coteaching. These three major themes are woven together throughout the entire volume, designed as a reference to both novice and experienced teachers in their endeavors to provide effective integrated, collaborative instruction for EFL or ESL learners. We also intend to help preservice and inservice ESL/EFL teachers, teacher educators, professional developers, ESL/EFL program directors, and administrators to find answers to critical questions.

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Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for the 6-12 Classroom

April 20, 2022 by marie

How can a secondary teacher reconcile the heavy demands of the content curriculum with best practices while enhancing students’ literacy skills in the content areas? Core Instructional Routines helps you build background knowledge and literacy within and across subjects using “SWRL” (Speak, Write, Read, and Listen) routines that make learning more relevant and interactive.

Andrea Honigsfeld and Judy Dodge share ample opportunities for creative collaboration, critical analysis, meaning-making, and student engagement. “Contrary to the belief that routines can lead to dull, repetitive, unimaginative, scripted ways of teaching,” they write, “we believe that the routines here will not only lay the framework for predictable structures, instructional consistency, and skill building, but also provide plenty of opportunity for teacher autonomy, creative expression, and nurturing the desire to learn in each child.”

Trust Core Instructional Routines for results that are anything but routine.

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Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching, K-5

April 20, 2022 by marie

“The word routine gets a bad rap, too. It is sometimes used to describe the day-to-day, monotonous patterns of our everyday lives, often perceived as boring and unimaginative. This word has somehow lost its truth along the way. Routine needs an ally these days, and Judith and Andrea have come to its rescue! The fact is, routines are the foundational architecture for creativity, and in the classroom they give birth to deeper reading, rich writing, and meaningful conversation.”
-Tanny McGregor, author of Comprehension Connections

Routines are the backbone of well-run classrooms. They give kids just enough structure to count on and grow from. Core Instructional Routines offers ideas that give every student practice with reading, writing, speaking, and listening-and that open up numerous opportunities for differentiated instruction.

Judy Dodge and Andrea Honigsfeld’s instructional guidebook provides teaching routines you can adapt to any content area, to fiction and nonfiction texts, and to any student’s needs. They aren’t busy work or curricular filler but essential frameworks for joyful, productive learning. Judy and Andrea share: 

  • dozens of research-backed, classroom-tested routines 
  • a toolbox for implementation and differentiation
  • research summaries on how routines help learners
  • reproducible templates and helpful student samples
  • essential questions for study groups.

And even though standards and mandated curricula tell us what we must teach, you can turn to Core Instructional Routines to help you decide how to teach because it helps you: 

  • see what addressing the standards can look like in your classroom
  • establish and maintain classroom expectations
  • work toward specific literacy goals
  • support the skills and habits of mind for college and career readiness
  • guide students toward independence
  • create additional opportunities to meet everyone’s needs.

“By showing students what they can expect and count on,” write Judy and Andrea, “you will establish a healthy environment for learning, and you can feel confident that you are providing instruction that will build skills for students to be successful in school.” Trust Core Instructional Routines for results that are anything but routine.

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Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K-5: English Language Arts Strategies

April 20, 2022 by marie

The strategies you need to teach common standards to diverse learners

The elementary years are a critical opportunity to help students of all backgrounds meet the demands of the Common Core Standards. In this realistic, thorough book, Maria Dove and Andrea Honigsfeld show how to help every K-5 student, including English Learners, students with disabilities, speakers of nonstandard English, and other struggling learners, meet the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts (ELA).

Educators will find an adaptable approach that ensures all students develop lasting language skills. This resource

  • Familiarizes readers with each of the Common Core′s 32 ELA anchor standards
  • Outlines the specific skills that students need to master each standard
  • Presents a wealth of flexible teaching strategies and instructional tools aligned to each anchor standard 
  • Includes guidance on collaboration and co-teaching for student success

Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner is the standards-based ELA resource that elementary teachers have been waiting for!

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Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6-12: English Language Arts Strategies

April 20, 2022 by marie

New hope for our students who struggle most

Under the best of circumstances meeting the Common Core can be a challenge.  But if you’re a teacher of academically and linguistically diverse students―and who isn’t these days―then that “challenge” may sometimes feel more like a “fantasy.” Finally, here are two expert educators who are brave enough, knowledgeable enough, and grounded enough to tackle this issue.

Armed with this resource’s advice, tools, and strategies, you’ll

  • Better understand the 32 ELA anchor standards 
  • Learn more about the specific skills “uncommon learners” need to master them 
  • Discover new research-based teaching strategies aligned to each standard

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Collaboration and Co-Teaching for English Learners: A Leader’s Guide

April 20, 2022 by marie

With the EL population increasing every day, schools need proven systems for ensuring that the students of the future are able to thrive. In practice, this is a challenge for educational leaders. The most promising solution is the collaborative approach pioneered by this book’s authors—America’s leading authorities on collaboration and co-teaching for EL achievement. This is your concise, comprehensive guide to creating a powerful collaborative program to benefit your ELs. Start implementing it today and watch the outcomes improve.

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Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners

April 20, 2022 by marie

Help ELLs achieve success with an integrated, collaborative program!

This resource provides a practical guide to collaboration and co-teaching between general education teachers and ESL specialists to better serve the needs of ELLs. Offering classroom vignettes, step-by-step guidelines, ready-to-use resources, and in-depth case studies, the authors help educators:

  • Understand the benefits and challenges of collaborative service delivery  
  • Teach content while helping students meet English language development goals  
  • Choose from a range of collaborative strategies and configurations, from informal planning and collaboration to a co-teaching partnership 
  • Use templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practice
This 1st edition has been discontinued. Please see the newer 2nd edition of this publication.

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Collaborating for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices

April 20, 2022 by marie

Looking for a silver bullet to accelerate EL achievement? There is none. 

But this, we promise: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs’ language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Just ask the tens of thousands of Collaboration and Co-Teaching users and now, a new generation of educators, thanks to this all-new second edition: Collaborating for English Learners.

Why this new edition? Because more than a decade of implementation has generated for Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove new insight into what exemplary teacher collaboration looks like, which essential frameworks must be established, and how integrated approaches to ELD services benefit all stakeholders. Essentially a roadmap to the many different ways we can all work together, this second edition of Collaborating for English Learners features: 

  • All-new examples, case studies, illustrative video, and policy updates 
  • In-depth coverage of the full range of strategies and configurations for determining the best model to adopt
  • Templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practice
  • Guidelines, self-assessments, and questionnaires for evaluating the strategies’ effectiveness

By this time, the big benefits of teacher collaboration are well documented. Where teachers and schools struggle still is determining the best way to do so, especially when working with our ELs. That’s where Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, and their second edition of Collaborating for English Learners will prove absolutely indispensable. After all, there are no two better authorities.

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Co-Teaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning, Instruction, Assessment, and Reflection

April 20, 2022 by marie

Because teacher collaboration isn’t an option, it’s a MUST!

EL authorities Maria Dove and Andrea Honigsfeld take ESL teachers and their general education colleagues step-by-step through building a successful collaboration―or improving an existing one. And since no teaching team is exactly alike, you’ll find seven collaborative models to choose from. Features include:

• In-depth profiles of the seven models
• Advantages and challenges of each model
• Clear explanations of each teacher’s role
• Tried-and-true strategies for the entire instructional cycle: co-planning, co-instruction, co-assessment, and reflection
• Real-life accounts from co-teaching veterans
• Accompanying videos and dedicated web content

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Co-Planning: Five Essential Practices to Integrate Curriculum and Instruction for English Learners

April 20, 2022 by marie

Pool your collective wisdom in support of your English learners!

Bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria G. Dove have returned with this new resource that compliments and expands on their previous titles on co-teaching and collaboration by addressing collaborative planning in greater depth. Co-planning is positioned as the first step toward integrative language and content instruction as regular and purposeful collaboration ensures that ELs/MLs have access to core content.

Key features include:

·         Practical, step-by-step guidance to starting and sustaining collaborative planning for integrated language, literacy, and social-emotional development 

·         An array of checklists, templates, and protocols for immediate implementation

·         Snapshots from the Field provide real-life examples of co-planning in action

·         Beautiful full-color design with original sketch notes to bring concepts to life

·         QR codes that link to author interviews elaborating on key ideas

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