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Teaching English Through Science and Science Through English
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What better way to learn English than through the study of science, and what better way to learn about science than experiencing it through language and literacy in and out of the classroom. Sutman, Allen, and…
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Perspectives on Teaching and Integrating English as a Second Language and Science
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In the chapter, the authors briefly review the evolution of ESL instruction and science education. They discuss current promising practices that integrate ESL, literacy, and science. Finally, they highlight innovative…
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Learners, Programs, and Teaching Practices
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The changing demographics of the United States and recent focus on educational standards have made it increasingly critical to address the needs of the many linguistically and culturally diverse students in our schools…
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Planning Science and English Instruction: One Teacher's Experience
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The authors of this chapter describe how to incorporate science, language arts, and ESL standards into the classroom. They offer practical suggestions on how to plan, organize, and implement activities based upon…
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Strategies for Teaching Science to English Learners
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Teachers who teach science play a key role with English language learners (ELLs). In this chapter, the authors discuss strategies teachers can use to help English language learners learn science while improving their…
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Strategies for Assessing Science and Language Learning
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In this chapter, the authors give an overview of principles for assessing language learners in science. They describe how to plan assessment, how to use it in the classroom, and how to provide feedback and improve…
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Science Beyond Classroom Walls: Fairs, Family Nights, Museums, and the Internet
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A field trip is only one example of how valuable connections between formal and informal education settings are for the teaching and learning of science. In this chapter, the authors provide ideas on expanding learning…
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Designing Lessons: Inquiry Approach to Science Using the SIOP Model
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Using the Sheltered Instructional Operation Protocol (SIOP) Model, the authors in this chapter discuss science inquiry, the SIOP Model, and how to blend the two for good science instruction. They finish the chapter with…
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Lessons That Work: Science Lessons for English Learners
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In this chapter, the authors present formats for science lesson plans that incorporate inquiry and language and science objectives. Teachers from elementary, middle, and secondary levels describe successful lessons and…
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Standards for Science and English Language Proficiency
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In this chapter, the authors describe the development of the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and English language proficiency standards. They then discuss new language proficiency standards that integrate…
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The Impact of Technology on the 21st Century Classroom
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This chapter explores how educational technology has changed and will continue to change the ways that teachers teach and students learn in classrooms of the 21st century. The chapter begins with a description of how…
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Leadership in Science Education for the 21st Century
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In the early decades of the 21st century, science educators face some problems unique to the times and some common to all eras. Some of the issues will be with us for the relative brief time of political administrations…
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The Principal as Leader of Change
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As long as the job of principal remains as complex and undoable as it is currently, and as long as either teaching faculties or local school boards pressure an innovative principal until that principal chooses to leave…
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Keeping Good Science Teachers: What Science Leaders Can Do
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Only when teachers have had the kind of training and experience that makes them successful with students can schools become and remain effective. Creating the conditions to retain strong teachers preserves this…
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Understanding Supply and Demand Among Mathematics and Science Teachers
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Concern over school staffing problems has given impetus to empirical research on teacher shortages and turnover. As a result, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical arm of the U.S.…
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