Teaching Science to English Language Learners

Teaching Science to English Language Learners
Author: Joyce Nutta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136963316

Teaching Science to English Language Learners offers science teachers and teacher educators a straightforward approach for engaging ELLs learning science.

Teaching with Purpose

Teaching with Purpose
Author: Ann K. Fathman
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0873552539

Making a case for a research-based teaching rationale -- Elements of a research-based rationale -- Developing a research-based rationale -- Implementing your rationale and becoming a mentor

Hands-On English Language Learning - Early Years

Hands-On English Language Learning - Early Years
Author: Jennifer E. Lawson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2009-09-04
Genre: English language
ISBN: 1553791967

The Hands-On English Language Learning program is a resource for classroom teachers, specialist teachers working with English-language learners, and other educational professionals who support these students. To assist your students in developing language skills, this resource includes: specific curricular connections for each lesson to identify links to subject-area themes in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, health, physical education, and the arts integrated class activities to promote learning in context for all students in the classroom suggested activities focus on curricular topics in all subject areas, while supporting English language learners relevant topics such as the classroom and school, clothing, food, hobbies and interests, plants and animals of Canada, the world, and the environment age-appropriate, high-interest learning activities that foster the development of essential English language vocabulary and skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and representing activities (in keeping with the philosophy of all Portage & Main Press Hands-On programs) that are student-centred and focus on real-life, hands-on experiences Please note: All blackline masters are included on a CD.

Teaching Science to English Language Learners

Teaching Science to English Language Learners
Author: Luciana C. de Oliveira
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319535943

This edited collection explores how science can be taught to English language learners (ELLs) in 21st century classrooms. The authors focus on the ways in which pre-service and in-service science teachers have developed—or may develop—instructional effectiveness for working with ELLs in the secondary classroom. Chapter topics are grounded in both research and practice, addressing a range of timely topics including the current state of ELL education in the secondary science classroom, approaches to leveraging the talents and strengths of bilingual students in heterogeneous classrooms, best practices in teaching science to multilingual students, and ways to infuse the secondary science teacher preparation curriculum with ELL pedagogy. This book will appeal to an audience beyond secondary content area teachers and teacher educators to all teachers of ELLs, teacher educators and researchers of language acquisition more broadly.

Becoming Scientists

Becoming Scientists
Author: Rusty Bresser
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571109951

Most important to being a good science teacher is holding the expectation that all students can be scientists and think critically. Providing a thinking curriculum is especially important for those children in diverse classrooms who have been underserved by our educational system. OCo Becoming Scientists. Good science starts with a question, perhaps from the teacher at the start of a science unit or from the children as they wonder what makes a toy car move, how food decomposes, or why leaves change color. Using inquiry science, children discover answers to their questions in the same way that scientists doOCothey design experiments, make predictions, observe and describe, offer and test explanations, and share their conjectures with others. In essence, they construct their own understanding of how the world works through experimentation, reflection, and discussion. Look into real classrooms where teachers practice inquiry science and engage students in the science and engineering practices outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards. Rusty Bresser and Sharon Fargason show teachers how to do the following: Build on students' varied experiences, background knowledge, and readiness; Respond to the needs of students with varying levels of English language proficiency; Manage a diverse classroom during inquiry science exploration; Facilitate science discussions; Deepen their own science content knowledge. As the authors state, Inquiry science has little to do with textbooks and lectures and everything to do with our inherent need as a species to learn about and reflect on the world around us. Join your students on a journey of discovery as you explore your world via inquiry."

English Learners in STEM Subjects

English Learners in STEM Subjects
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309479088

The imperative that all students, including English learners (ELs), achieve high academic standards and have opportunities to participate in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning has become even more urgent and complex given shifts in science and mathematics standards. As a group, these students are underrepresented in STEM fields in college and in the workforce at a time when the demand for workers and professionals in STEM fields is unmet and increasing. However, English learners bring a wealth of resources to STEM learning, including knowledge and interest in STEM-related content that is born out of their experiences in their homes and communities, home languages, variation in discourse practices, and, in some cases, experiences with schooling in other countries. English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives examines the research on ELs' learning, teaching, and assessment in STEM subjects and provides guidance on how to improve learning outcomes in STEM for these students. This report considers the complex social and academic use of language delineated in the new mathematics and science standards, the diversity of the population of ELs, and the integration of English as a second language instruction with core instructional programs in STEM.

NGSS and ELLs

NGSS and ELLs
Author: Victoria Garcia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

This project sought to address the need for science instruction in elementary classrooms, educators' lack of knowledge regarding the Next Generation Science Standards and develop educators' knowledge on how to support the academic language needs of Hispanic English Language Learners during science instruction. In order to address these needs, kindergarten through sixth grade educators in an urban school in Los Angeles were led in a professional development session about the Next Generation Science Standards and participated in a hands-on science activity in which they implemented research-based strategies to support the academic language acquisition of Hispanic ELLs. After the professional development session, educators in grades three through five were asked to implement the lesson and provide feedback which was used to create an educator guide. The author's work on this project indicates a need to educate teachers more thoroughly on the Next Generation Science Standards. Educators also need to be provided support, whether through professional learning communities or resource guides, to plan for science instruction that meets the needs of their Hispanic English Language Learners.

Teaching Science to English Language Learners

Teaching Science to English Language Learners
Author: Ann S. Rosebery
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1933531258

Though its primary goal is to serve as an introduction to the research on this important subject, Teaching Science to English Language Learners combines that research with classroom case studies and the perspectives of master teachers. Further, chapter authors strive to support your efforts to use diversity as a resource--rather than as an obstacle--in the science classroom.

Secondary Science Teaching for English Learners

Secondary Science Teaching for English Learners
Author: Edward G. Lyon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442231270

Secondary Science Teaching for English Learners: Developing Supportive and Responsive Learning Context for Sense-making and Language Development provides a resource for multiple audiences, including pre- and in-service secondary science teachers, science teacher educators, instructional coaches, curriculum specialists, and administrators, to learn about a research-based approach to teaching science that responds to the growing population of English learners in the United States. The book offers clear definitions of pedagogical practices supported by classroom examples and a cohesive framework for teaching science in linguistically diverse classrooms. The Secondary Science Teaching with English Language and Literacy Acquisition (or SSTELLA) Framework addresses how learning science is enhanced through meaningful and relevant learning experiences that integrate discipline-specific literacy. In particular, four core science teaching practices are described: (1) contextualized science activity, (2) scientific sense-making through scientific and engineering practices, (3) scientific discourse, and (4) English language and disciplinary literacy development. These four core practices are supported by sound theory and research based on unscripted guidelines and flexible modifications of science lessons. Moreover, the four interrelated practices promote students’ use of core science ideas while reading, writing, talking, and doing science, thus reflecting principles from Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, and English language proficiency standards. Secondary Science Teaching provides readers with a historical and theoretical basis for integrating language, literacy, and science in multilingual science classrooms, and well as explicit models and guided support teachers in enacting effective teaching practices in the classroom, including comparative vignettes to distinguish between different types of classroom practice.