Full Description
This resource guides teachers through the design of tasks, lessons, and units of study that invite English learners (and all students) to engage in meaningful and intellectually engaging activity. It offers direction for designing lessons and units and provides examples that demonstrate the approach in various subject areas, including math, science, English, and social studies.
Contents
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Educating English Learners in the 21st Century 1 George C. Bunch and Aída Walqui
2. What Is Quality Learning for English Learners? 21
Aída Walqui and George C. Bunch
3. Designing the Amplified Lesson 43
Aída Walqui
4. Shakespeare's Macbeth: Making Powerful Texts Accessible and Engaging to English Learners 71
Mary Schmida
5. Investigating Disease Transmission: Engaging English Learners in a Phenomenon-Based Science Lesson 93
Tomás Galguera, Catherine Lemmi, and Paolo C. Martin
6. Making Slope a Less Slippery Concept for English Learners: Redesigning Mathematics Instruction with Rich Interactions 115
Leslie Hamburger and Haiwen Chu
7. Mapping a Changing World View: Designing Learning Experiences for English Learners in Social Studies 139
Nicholas Catechis and Pía Castilleja
8. What Makes Me Who I Am?: Engaging Beginning-Level English Learners in Quality Learning 165
Lee Hartman and Elsa Billings
9. Where the Rubber Meets the Road: What Teachers and Students Report When Implementing High- Quality Learning Designs for English Learners 187
George C. Bunch, Heather Schlaman, and Sara Rutherford-Quach
10. Developing Teacher Expertise to Design Amplified Learning Opportunities for English Learners 207
Aída Walqui and George C. Bunch
About the Editors and Contributors 227
Index 231
