|
|
Primary ESOL
Professional Readings: Effective Instructional Practices
On ESOL Online
On Other Websites
- An Approach to Factual Writing
Wray and Lewis on text types and writing frames, with clear explanations and exemplifications.
- Best Evidence Synthesis: The Complexity of Community and Family Influences on Children's Achievement in New Zealand
2003 best evidence synthesis report commissioned by the Ministry of Education. It is part of a commitment to strengthen the evidence base that informs education policy and practice in New Zealand.
- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Because of its six levels of thinking, Bloom's Revised Taxonomy provides a framework for planning units that incorporate low to high-level thinking activities.
- Characteristics of Culturally Relevant Classrooms
A summary from NCREL.
- Characteristics of Relevant Literacy Instruction
A summary of recurring themes in the literature on literacy instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students (NCREL).
- Classroom SLA Research and Second Language Teaching
Lightbown (2000) revisits her 1985 10 generalisations about what teachers should know about SLA research.
- Content ESL Across the USA: A Training Packet
Teaching guides compiled from data gathered during a three-year study of content-ESL programs undertaken by the Center for Applied Linguistics, funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
- Content-Based Instruction: A Shell for Language Teaching or a Framework for Strategic Language and Content Learning?
Fredricka Stoller's plenary address, given at the TESOL convention in Salt Lake City 2002.
- Content-Based Second-Language Instruction: What Is It?
Easy to read explanation of content-based language teaching. From the Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA).
- Crede Lesson Plan Checklist - The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
A checklist that can be used for lesson planning.
- CREDE: The Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy
These standards establish principles for best teaching practices that are effective with both majority and minority students across cultures and language groups.
- Criteria for Evaluating Multicultural Materials
A summary from NCREL.
- Critical Issue: Addressing Literacy Needs in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
What teachers need to know to cater for cultural and linguistic diversity (NCREL).
- Early Days
Advice on how to cope with newly arrived beginner students (Equality Services and Slough EAZ).
- Effective Instructional Practices Enhance Student Achievement
Chamot discusses the use of students' prior knowledge, teacher modeling, scaffolded instruction, interactive teaching, and the teaching of metacognition and thinking (English Teaching Forum).
- English as an Additional Language
How to cater for new arrivals (British Qualifications and Curriculum Authority).
- English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Resourcing Information
Ministry of Education website with information on policies, funding procedures and resources that support schools with new learners of English.
- English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL): Effective Provision for International Students (A Resource for Schools)
Resource designed to assist schools to provide quality support for international students.
- English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL): The Refugee Handbook For Schools
This MOE resource provides guidance and information for schools on meeting the social, emotional and educational needs of students from refugee backgrounds.
- Families Learning Together: A Resource for Students and Families
The MOE Refugee Co-ordinators' Team has developed a series of booklets in English, Arabic, Somali, Amharic, Farsi and Khmer.
- Grammar for Writing
2003 report by Schleppegrell that looks at text types students are expected to write and discusses how teachers can help students develop proficiency through a functional approach to grammar and explicit attention to language features (PDF).
- Guidelines: Adapting Material
A clear outline of how to simplify written text.
- How Multicultural Is Your School?
A checklist to determine the quality of a school's multicultural practices (NCREL).
- Improving English Language Outcomes for Students Receiving ESOL Services in New Zealand Schools, with a Particular Focus on New Immigrants
2003 review by Franken and McComish, commissioned to inform the review of the MOE ESOL strategy. The literature review identifies good practice for teaching and learning. The report describes current practice in NZ schools.
- Instructed Second Language Acquisition
Rod Ellis's 2005 literature review for the Ministry of Education on how instruction can best ensure successful language learning.
- Interview with Merrill Swain (2005)
Merrill Swain talks about key issues and themes in bilingual education (PDF).
- Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a co-operative learning strategy that enables each student of a “home” group to specialise in one aspect of a learning unit. Students meet with members from other groups who are assigned the same aspect, and after mastering the material, return to the “home” group and share the material with their group members.
- Key Elements in Effective Teaching for Ethnic- and Language-Minority Students (
Twelve bullet points NCREL).
- Language Acquisition Research
Papers from the 2003 Language Acquisition Forum. The purpose of the forum was to draw on New Zealand academic expertise and experience in the field of language acquisition and bilingual development to inform Ministry of Education policy and to share knowledge of Maori and Pasifika immersion and bilingual education.
- Lexical Approach to Second Language Teaching
2001 article on the role formulaic phrases play in language acquisition (CAL Digest).
- Lexical Exploitation of Texts
Explains why students need to be trained to notice and learn chunks, rather than just individual words (British Council).
- Materials Development and Research - Making the Connection
2006 article by Jack Richards.
- Michael McCarthy
A 2005 interview where Michael McCarthy talks about what is important in language teaching and learning (ELT News).
- Ministry of Education: English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
Recent Ministry of Education documents for ESOL students are here.
- Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners
Of interest in light of the Curriculum Marautanga Project, this 2006 position paper looks at the knowledge and skills mainstream English teachers need in order to teach language learners effectively (National Council of Teachers of English).
- Quality Teaching for Diverse Students: Best Evidence Synthesis
This research synthesis by Adrienne Alton-Lee for the MOE focuses on what works to improve education outcomes.
- Sentence Combining
2004 report on the role sentence combining can play in improving writing quality (The Institute of Education, University of London).
- SIOP: Making Content Comprehensible for ELLs
The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) models the steps in lesson planning that make content material comprehensible to English language learners. Summary of work by Echevarria, Vogt and Short on EverythingESL.
- Strategies and Resources for Mainsteam Teachers of English Language Learners
Includes a summary of research, effective approaches and strategies, and school case studies (PDF, Northwest Regional Education Laboratory).
- Task-based Learning in an Asian Context
14 articles on TBL originating from the 2006 Asian EFL Journal Conference. Includes articles by Ellis, Nunan and Oxford.
- Teacher-student Conversations that Promote Learning
MOE online workshop (PPt).
- Think Aloud Protocols: Teaching Reading Processes to Young Bilingual Students
Research suggests that students learning to read need to be taught how to use specific strategies for understanding a text.
- We Can Talk: Cooperative Learning in the Elementary ESL Classroom
Language acquisition is determined by a complex interaction of a number of critical input, output, and context variables. Simply summarised.
- What Elementary Teachers Need to Know About Language
Seminal article by Lily Wong Fillmore and Catherine E. Snow.
- Working With Young English Language Learners: Some Considerations
This 2003 article provides general information on the characteristics of English language learners and describes learning conditions and instructional practices that are most effective for educating young ELLs.
- Acquiring a Second Language for School
Virginia Collier guides the reader through the research knowledge base that has developed in the ESL field over the past 25 years.
- Analysing a Successful Language Learning Experience
A teacher reflects on one short very successful language learning experience (Humanising Language Teaching Journal).
- Beyond the Middle Years: A Report about Literacy and Numeracy Development of Target Group Students in the Middle Years of Schooling (Allan Luke)
Approaches to assisting the literacy and numeracy development of targeted Australian students in Years 5-10 (Commissioned by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training).
- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy is a useful way to plan units of work that incorporate high level thinking skills. This site includes: a colour poster introducing the revised taxonomy, a planning framework to design learning activities that foster all levels of thinking and Investigate a Book the Blooming-Smarts Way, a matrix for a reading programme.
- Bloom's Taxonomy - Critical and Creative Thinking
Includes links to other useful sites.
- Brain Research: Implications for Second Language Learning
Fred Genesse explains how understanding how the brain learns naturally may enhance language teachers' effectiveness in the classroom.
- Bridges Between Home and School: Literacy Building Activities For Non-Native English Speaking Homes
From 'The Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students'.
- The 'Bridging Strategy': Active Use of Learners' First Language in Second Language Teaching
How to use students' L1 as a positive resource. Written from a foreign language teaching perspective (Humanising Language Teaching Journal).
- Bridging the Home-School Divide in Chinese- and English-Speaking Children's Bilingual Development: Some Guidelines
How to foster additive bilingual development. The focus is on the children of recent Chinese immigrants to Canada (Bilingual Basics).
- Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools
What students already know about the content is one of the strongest indicators of how well they will learn new information related to the content. Chapter one of a book by Marzano.
- Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds
Think-alouds can improve reading comprehension and help students to develop the ability to monitor their reading comprehension.
- Classroom Instruction That Works - Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
The first and sixth chapters of a book by Marzano, Pickering and Pollock. The sixth chapter introduces graphic organisers and summarises the research on their effectiveness as learning tools. Takes time to download.
- Cognitive Conundrum: Learning Styles
Times Educational Supplement article surveying the research evidence for different learning styles.
- Cognitive Skills Instruction
Ideas for teachers to help students develop and use cognitive skills and strategies.
- Combining Dictogloss and Cooperative Learning to Promote Language Learning
Dictogloss, and variations of dictogloss, are set within the context of current theories of language learning.
- Content and Language Integrated Learning (Clil) Debate
The Guardian Weekly suggests that English language teachers could be a thing of the past.
- Content Area Literacy Methods: Pre-reading
Effective comprehension depends largely on the reader's readiness (LiteracyLeaders.com).
- Content Based ESL Curriculum and Academic Language Proficiency
2004 article from The Internet TESL Journal.
- Content-Based Instruction: Research Foundations
Grabe and Stoller summarise the research evidence around content based language instruction.
- Creating the School Climate and Structures to Support Parent and Family Involvement
Evidence shows a strong connection between family involvement in schools and students' academic achievement (NCREL).
- CREDE - Broadening the Base: School/Community Partnerships Serving Language Minority Students At Risk
Findings from a 2001 study that aimed to promote the academic achievement of English language learners.
- CREDE: A National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students' Long-Term Academic Achievement
Thomas and Collier's 1996-2001 study of the types of U.S. school programmes provided for linguistically and culturally diverse students. It comes out strongly in favour of sustained bilingual education.
- CREDE: Centre for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
CREDE is a federally funded American research and development program working to assist diverse student populations in achieving academic excellence. Links to their recent research.
- Critical Issue: Building on Prior Knowledge and Meaningful Student Contexts/Cultures
Students learn more effectively when they already know something about a content area and when concepts are related to their particular background or culture (NCREL).
- Critical Literacy
From the Tasmanian Department of Education, a summary of the features of critical literacy, together with illustrative classroom approaches and a resource list.
- Cross-Age Tutoring in the Literacy Club
Research shows great gains for both tutees and tutors, even when the children being tutored and the tutors are both English language learners.
- Culturally Responsive Education
Culturally responsive schools exhibit certain traits (NCREL).
- Culturally Responsive Schools for Micronesian Immigrant Students
Towards the end of the article are two very useful tables (4 and 5): Instructional Accommodations for English Language Learners; Teacher’s Guide to Cultural Variables. From Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL).
- Culture
What is culture and how does it affect learning and thinking? (NCREL)
- The Curriculum and English as an Additional Language: Introductory Training for School Support Staff
A programme that trains support staff enabling them to assist students' language learning skill (British Department for Education and Skills).
- Defining Learning Communities
From the 2003 AARE conference.
- Delpit, Lisa. “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children
A summary of Delpit's seminal article.
- Developing Comprehension in the Primary Grades
Duke and Pearson's presentation to the International Reading Association 2001.
- Developing Literacy in English as a Second Language: Guidelines for Teachers of Young Children from Non-Literate Backgrounds
Basic principles and practical suggestions for teaching reading and writing using a whole language approach (Teacher Resource Guide Series).
- Diversity Vs. White Privilege
Christine Sleeter explains why multiculturalism is a struggle against racism, and must go beyond an appreciation of diversity (Rethinking Schools Online, 2001).
- The Dynamics of Digital Groups: Cooperative Learning in IT-Based Language Instruction
Co-operative learning and how it fits well with ICT (Jacobs, Ward and Gallo).
- The Education of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students: Effective Instructional Practices
Garcia identifies teaching and learning practices that will lead to academic success for ESOL students.
- The Education of Pacific Students in New Zealand Schools
This ERO report is based on the reviews of 114 schools where Pacific students were enrolled, during the first two terms of 2002.
- Educational Practices Series
Booklets on effective educational practices: How Children Learn, Motivation to Learn, and others. Some of the booklets can be downloaded in Chinese and Korean (International Bureau of Education, NGO, Geneva).
- Effective Teaching
From the Department of Education Tasmania.
- The Effects of Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs on the Story Comprehension and Thematic Understanding of English Proficient and Limited English Proficient Students
Research by Saunders and Goldenberg (CREDE).
- English as an Additional Language
A brief overview of British educational policy (TES).
- English Immigrant Language Learners: Cultural Accommodation and Family Literacy
Literacy needs and cultural, linguistic, and social knowledge that immigrant families need to acquire in order to survive.
- English Language Learners With Special Needs: Effective Instructional Strategies
Strategies that support the learning of ESOL students with special needs (Ortiz, 2001).
- Error Correction in SLA Clasrrooms:The Use of Recasts
When it comes to error correction what should teachers do?
- ESCORT Help! Kit: A Resource Guide for Secondary Teachers of Migrant English Language Learners
Research-based advice for mainstream teachers on how to more effectively teach, nurture and evaluate their ESOL students.
- The ESL Standards: Bridging the Academic Gap for English Language Learners
Deborah Short’s article has relevance for the New Zealand context with the current Curriculum Project. Have the language learning needs of ESOL students in mainstream programmes been written into the new curriculum documents?
- ESOL Starter Kit (Virginia Adult Learning Resource Centre)
This kit is written for teaching adults, but it has detailed advice that is useful for all ages on effective teaching and learning, how to integrate the four language modes, how to teach multi-level classes and much more.
- An Evening with Mimi Met! Discussing Language Growth in Immersion Classrooms
A report of a 2002 interview. Includes answers to questions such as "What kinds of language do children need?"
- Family and Community Engagement in Education
2007 paper briefly outlining findings about family and community influences on students' achievement. The paper identifies key principles for working in partnership with families and community and summarises features of partnership programmes in the Manukau area. (PDF)
- Five Aspects of Power in the Classroom
A summary of Delpit's research on the 'culture of power' in schools (NCREL).
- Fostering Second Language Development in Young Children
Eight principles to guide educators working with young linguistically diverse students (funded by U.S. Dept. of Education).
- Funds of Knowledge: Learning from Language Minority Households
Classroom practice can be enriched by drawing upon the existing funds of knowledge in minority students' households (CAL Digest).
- Good Practice Guides
Succinctly written good practice guides from the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.
- Home School Partnerships
A framework is presented for fostering co-operation between home and school.
- Ideas on Teaching: Responding to Student Diversity
General, practical suggestions for teachers with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in their mainstream classrooms. Appropriate for all sectors (University of Oklahoma).
- Importance of Attention to Language, Culture, Traditional Knowledge
A 2005 news report of a United Nations Forum.
- Information for Teachers of ESL Students
Advice for the mainstream teacher (Paul Shoebottom, Frankfurt International School).
- The Instructional Conversation: Teaching and Learning in Social Activity
Tharp and Gallimore's seminal article.
- Instructional Conversations and their Classroom Applications
Discussion-based lessons can be geared toward creating opportunities for students' conceptual and linguistic development (Goldenberg).
- Instructional Conversations in Special Education Settings: Issues and Accommodations
Instructional conversations can work with special needs students by capitalising on what the student brings to the learning situation(Echevarria & McDonough).
- Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom
Rebecca Oxford likens effective teaching of English as a second language to a tapestry.
- Integrating Language and Content Teaching through Collaborative Tasks
Merrill Swain writes about integrating the teaching of language and content through collaborative tasks.
- Integrating School-Aged ESL Learners into the Mainstream Curriculum
2003 paper by Constant Leung that weighs up the arguments around mainstreaming, drawing on recent experiences in England, California and Victoria (PDF).
- Integrating School-Aged ESL Learners into the Mainstream Curriculum
2003 paper from Constant Leung.
- Involving Parents of English Language Learners in their Children's Schooling
A 'why' and 'how to' article from Goldenberg (Instructional Leader, 2006, PDF).
- Is Communicative Language Teaching a Thing of the Past?
2002 essay reviewing the success of communicative language teaching in the context of language acquisition theory and research findings.
- It’s Time for a New Learning Agenda in Policy, Research and Practice in Education: Making a Bigger Difference in Desired Educational Outcomes for Diverse Learners through Collaborative Cultures of Inquiry and Development
Adrienne Alton-Lee calls for a new learning agenda across policy, research and practice that makes a bigger difference for students. (Introduction to a paper in preparation for Pacific Circle Consortium June 27, 2007.)
- Jigsaw Classroom
A co-operative learning technique that promotes effective learning and improves student motivation.
- Jigsaw: Instructional Strategies Online
A clear explanation of the purpose of jigsaw reading and how to do it.
- Knowing What We Know and Need to Know about Effective Teaching
Graham Nuthall's presentation at the 2002 NZCER conference focuses on the relationship between teaching and learning (PPt).
- Knowledge Bases Needed for Teaching in Diverse Classrooms
The knowledge bases that teachers need in order to improve the academic performance of culturally and linguistically diverse students (NCREL).
- Language Learning Strategies: An Overview for L2 Teachers
An overview of language learning strategies for second language teachers (The Internet TESL Journal).
- Language Unlocks Secrets
A mother-tongue scheme is boosting communication skills in an English school (TES).
- Learning How School Reform Fosters Language Acquisition and Development
Case study of four schools that have successfully implemented language development programs for limited English proficient students as part of a schoolwide restructuring effort (NCELA).
- LEP Students and the Integration of Language and Content: Knowledge Structures and Tasks
Bernard Mohan suggests that teachers should aim to find systematic connections among language learning, content learning and the development of thinking.
- Literacy and Numeracy Benchmarks
The electronic version of benchmarks in literacy and numeracy for Australian students in years 3, 5 and 7.
- Literacy and Sound Learning: Strategies for Thoughtful Reading
Doug Buehl clarifies the strategies that proficient readers use and explains how all readers can adopt these practices.
- Literacy Engagements
ReadWriteThink site that promotes "authentic and meaningful" language learning. Focuses on learning language, learning about language, learning through language.
- Literacy for an Increasingly Diverse Student Population
Literacy practices are embedded in culture (NCREL).
- Literacy Resources: David Wray
Literacy articles and writing frames by David Wray and links to other literacy readings on the web.
- Literacy Skills for the World of Tomorrow - Further results from PISA 2000
Further results from PISA 2000.
- Low-decile Schools and Teacher Attributes: Parent Voices
In this small study, Carpenter looks at what parents consider important attributes in their children's teachers.
- Making Decisions for Task-Based Learning
A short article by Willis that shows how to break task-based learning and teaching into basic stages, and how to identify the kinds of teaching decisions which have to be made (The Language Teacher, 2000).
- Making the Difference: Teaching and Learning Strategies in Successful Multi-ethnic Schools
Effective multi-ethnic schools share several characteristics including appropriate whole-school approaches, effective collection and use of data, and responsiveness to individual need. (From the British Department for Education and Skills.)
- Many Roots, Many Voices: Supporting English Language Learners in Every Classroom
From the Ministry of Education, Ontario, a practical guide for teachers and principals. Practices and strategies that can be put to immediate use in the school and the classroom (PDF).
- Meaningful, Engaged Learning
Eight indicators of engaged learning in schools and classrooms (NCREL).
- Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners
Eight key questions and a student survey to help educators better consider how to create optimal learning conditions.
- Modeling the Strategies We Advocate
Actions speak louder than words. Learn a language.
- Multiculturalism in Today's Schools: Have Teacher Attitudes Changed over Two Decades?
A survey from schools in New South Wales (PDF).
- MyRead
Three level guides clearly explained and exemplified.
- Myths and Misconceptions about Second Language Learning: What Every Teacher Needs to Unlearn
From NCELA.
- National Consultation on Exemplars: What Difference does it Make for Teachers?
Jenny Poskitt describes the research into the impact of school involvement on the ongoing development of national exemplars.
- 'Noticing' in SLA: Is it a Valid Concept?
This article focuses on the role of 'noticing' and 'noticing the gap' in second language acquisition (TESL -EJ).
- Overview of Second Language Acquisition Theory
From the NW Regional Educational Laboratory.
- Pacific Islands School Community Parent Liaison Project Case Study - Ministry of Education
This report studies the relationship between schools, Pacific Island communities and student achievement in a cluster of four schools.
- Picking up the Pace
Read about an innovative intervention that has worked in raising the literacy achievement of students in decile one schools in south Auckland. The focus of the study was on children's transition to school.
- Planning for Better Student Outcomes
This resource helps schools look at the big picture. Resources where planning for ESOL student needs should be enshrined.
- Prescriptions for Improvement: The Four Principles
Tharp's four principles of effective instruction for students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been drawn from a survey of literature and research results.
- Proceedings of the Third National Research Symposium on Limited English Proficient Student Issues: Focus on Middle and High School Issues
A wide variety of papers from the United States Department of Education Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs sponsored 1993 symposium.
- Programs That Prepare Teachers to Work Effectively With Students Learning English
A summary of some of the problems associated with traditional teacher education and suggestions for programmess that prepare teachers to work effectively with English language learners.
- Promoting a Language Proficient Society: What You Can Do
This reading suggests specific ways that parents, teachers, school administrators and policymakers can foster the learning of languages.
- Promoting Language Proficiency and Academic Achievement Through Cooperation
This reading discusses a project that sought to integrate effective practices in literacy education, an empirically based cooperative learning model, and a classroom management model to help teachers develop the bilingual language proficiency of their students.
- Questioning
Questions - it's not just a matter of what you ask, or how - but also of when you ask questions (TES).
- Questioning to Promote Higher-Order Thinking
Practical suggestions for teachers.
- Questions and Questioning: The Most Powerful Technologies of All
From Jamie McKenzie.
- Rating Instructional Conversations: A Guide
From Rueda, Goldenberg and Gallimore (NCELA).
- Reflective Teaching: Exploring our Own Classroom Practice
How to employ reflective teaching to improve learning outcomes. Diary suggestions in PDF format are available to download (British Coucil).
- Reformulation and Reconstruction: Tasks that Promote 'Noticing'
Scott Thornbury describes ways he has used reformulation and reconstruction tasks in his classroom to help students notice language forms.
- Report on the Verification of Schools Receiving Ministry of Education ESOL Funding
A description of the verification process and observations made from the ESOL verifcation of schools from June 1998 to March 2002.
- Role of Students' Home Language and Literacy Patterns
Overview of the disjunction between literacy practices at home and school (NCREL).
- Scaffolding
A brief explanation of what 'scaffolding' is (NCREL).
- Scaffolding
This 19 page e-book starts with a practical class context. It continues with a detailed description of scaffolding including theoretical underpinnings and ways to scaffold instruction.
- Scaffolding Approach
A clear description of what scaffolding is. From the UK's Department of Education and Skills (DfES).
- Scaffolding as a Teaching Strategy
In scaffolding instruction a more knowledgeable other provides scaffolds or supports to facilitate the learner's development.
- Scaffolding for Success
Jamie McKenzie looks at research and discusses scaffolding.
- Second-Language Learning
Learning to read in the language that includes familiar and meaningful things is critical to success in learning to read in a second language.
- Shifting the Focus: Achievement Information for Professional Learning: A Summary of the Sustainability of Professional Development in Literacy - Parts 1 and 2
Research commissioned by the Ministry of Education and led by Dr Helen Timperley, The University of Auckland. Part of Strengthening Education in Mangere and Otara (SEMO).
- Shifting the Gaze in South African Classrooms: New Pedagogies, New Publics, New Democracies
2004 report by Pippa Stein and Denise Newfield on a multiliteracies project based on Nelson Mandela's call to move beyond shaking off the chains to living in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others (PDF).
- SOLO Taxonomy
This taxonomy developed by Biggs and Collis describes how a student's performance can grow in complexity while mastering a task. There are five stages, and the framework is claimed to be applicable to any subject area.
- Staff Development Through Peer Mentoring
Establishing peer mentor relationships can help encourage teachers to implement change in their classrooms (Education World).
- Storytelling: A Foundational Pillar of Literacy
Telling family stories develops student literacy - as Margaret Attwood describes.
- Strategies Based Instruction for Second Language Learners
Andrew Cohen and Susan Weaver define what language learning strategies are and describe strategies-based instruction.
- Strategies for Developing Higher Level Thinking
A list of skills and concepts that help students develop higher-level thinking. With each skill or concept is an activity suggestion.
- Strategies for Involving LEP Students in the All-English-Medium Classroom: A Cooperative Learning Approach
Cooperative learning strategies that integrate language and conceptual learning.
- Strategies for Teaching Gifted Students in the Inclusive Classroom
Reseach from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.
- Strategies That Work: Student-led Conferences
Readings from Education World.
- Strategy Training for Second Language Learners
Based on Cohen's work (CAL Digest).
- Strengthening Education in Mangere and Otara
The final Ministry of Education report about interventions designed to offer high quality learning environments for students.
- Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
Learner-focused language teaching that explicitly combines styles and strategy training activities with everyday classroom language instruction (CARLA).
- Syntax
2004 report on whether grammar teaching affects writing accuracy and quality (The Institute of Education, University of London).
- Teachers Make a Difference: What is the Evidence?
John Hattie points out where the major sources of variance in student's achievement lie, and suggests that teachers should concentrate on enhancing these sources of variance to make a real difference.
- Teachers Observing Teachers: A Professional Development Tool for Every School
From Education World.
- Teaching Language Minority Students in Elementary Schools
A close look at how teachers can apply the Language Development standard from CREDE's Five Standards for Effective Teaching and Learning.
- Teaching Science to English Learners
An extended account of how the science teacher can help the ESOL students in the class.
- Teaching Talk: National Literacy Symposium
Summaries of keynote talks from the 2005 Learning Media conference. Includes Aida Walqui's presentation - "Interaction: the basis for all learning".
- Teaching the ESL Student
From Education World.
- Tenets of Culturally Relevant Teaching
Ladson-Billings identifies six tenets of culturally relevant teaching (NCREL).
- The Theory and Reality of Instructional Conversations for ESL Classrooms
Wilen reviews the current literature on instructional conversations and describes how conversations can be implemented in ESOL classrooms.
- Think, Pair, Share
Think, Pair, Share has been demonstrated to be a powerful factor in improving student responses to questions.
- Translating Characteristics of Effective School Reading Programmes into Practice
Slides by Barbara Taylor, University of Minnesota and Centre for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement.
- Using Children's Literature to Promote the Language Development of Minority Students
Suggestions for using literature to integrate language and content teaching so that classroom learning is more accessible to students from different experiential backgrounds.
- Using Think-Time and Wait-Time Skillfully in the Classroom
Information processing involves multiple cognitive tasks that take time. Students need uninterrupted periods of time to process information, reflect on what has been said, observed, or done and consider what their personal responses will be (ERIC Digest).
- Using "Think-Time" and "Wait-Time" Skillfully in the Classroom
Stahl writes about the benefits of the 3 second wait to allow for information processing (ERIC Digest).
- Vocabulary Wall Chart
Suggestions for wall charts that remind students of strategies they can use to work out word meanings (PDF).
- Voice of Experience: Put On Your (Six) Thinking Hats!
An approach to problem solving (Education World).
- A Vygotskian Perspective on Corrective Feedback in L2
Nassaji and Swain's research into whether negotiated help provided within the learner's zone of proximal development (ZPD) is more effective than help provided randomly.
- What are the Attributes of Excellent Teachers?
John Hattie's presentation at the 2002 NZCER conference. Teachers make a difference. What is the Evidence?
- What are the Defining Characteristics of Effective Instructional Programs for Language Minority Students?
Kris Anstrom writes about how to promote language and cognitive development.
- What Constitutes Quality Teaching?
Keynote address by John Langley, The University of Auckland, at the Numeracy Conference in February 2004.
- What Early Childhood Educators Need to Know About Language
Lily Wong Fillmore and Catherine E. Snow describe what early childhood educators need to know about language and how they can use that knowledge to support language and literacy development in their classes.
- Whole Language: Integrating the Language Arts
Whole Language is a set of beliefs about how language learning happens and a set of principles to guide classroom practice (ERIC Digest).
- Working with English Language Learners: Strategies for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Suggestions for integrating language and content(The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education).
|
