It takes teachers many years to develop expertise in the complex set of knowledge, skills,
and orientations needed to teach culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students well …

Sooner or later, as schools move to implement the new Common Core and other
forthcoming standards, almost every teacher in the United States will face the challenge of …

The relationship between English Language Learners'(ELL) academic achievement and
teacher education programs that prepare preservice teachers for working with those …

Despite steady growth in the population of English language learners (ELLs) in US schools
over many decades, issues related to their education remain on the periphery of education …

Inspired by the recognition of teachers and teacher learning in the knowledge base and the
calls for greater attention to the pedagogies and development of teacher educators, in this …

Teacher preparation programs throughout the United States have begun to include issues of
second language teaching and learning in their curriculum in an effort to better prepare their …

Increasingly, mainstream teachers rather than specialist language teachers (English as a
Second Language, bilingual teachers) are expected to work with English language learners …

To address the needs of English Language Leaners (ELLs) in grade-level content-area
classrooms, teacher education programs are moving toward “infused” models of instruction …

The trend of placing English language learners (ELLs) in mainstream classrooms has
teacher education programs develo** their capacity to prepare all teachers to educate …

The desire to extinguish deficit thinking within education majors is laudable. However, there
are indications that many teacher educators harbor deficit perspectives about the preservice …