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Updated Edition of Bestseller
Shadowing Multilingual Learners
Second Edition
The Education Trust-West Promising Practice
March 2021 | 184 pages | Corwin
Walk in your Students’ Shoes with Multilingual Learner Shadowing
The need for powerful professional learning to enable Multilingual Learners reach their full potential is more profound than ever. MLL shadowing is a way to create urgency around the instructional and academic needs of Multilingual Learners. The MLL Shadowing protocol is used to collect data on MLL’s opportunities for speaking and listening--the building blocks for reading and writing--in our classrooms.
Updated after 10 years of research and practice, the second edition of this bestselling resource includes an overview on the importance of oral language development, information on preparing the shadowing experience, the complete shadowing protocol, a guide for analyzing the shadowing experience and key oral language development strategies. The new edition also adds improved data collection for oral language expression, as well as highlights updated research and classroom practice concerning new policies and programs implemented across the country. A comprehensive guide to ELL shadowing is presented alongside:
This book provides an entry point for broader, systemic improvement that will serve ELLs in more varied instructional settings, including monolingual and bilingual programs.
The need for powerful professional learning to enable Multilingual Learners reach their full potential is more profound than ever. MLL shadowing is a way to create urgency around the instructional and academic needs of Multilingual Learners. The MLL Shadowing protocol is used to collect data on MLL’s opportunities for speaking and listening--the building blocks for reading and writing--in our classrooms.
Updated after 10 years of research and practice, the second edition of this bestselling resource includes an overview on the importance of oral language development, information on preparing the shadowing experience, the complete shadowing protocol, a guide for analyzing the shadowing experience and key oral language development strategies. The new edition also adds improved data collection for oral language expression, as well as highlights updated research and classroom practice concerning new policies and programs implemented across the country. A comprehensive guide to ELL shadowing is presented alongside:
- Detailed case studies showing real-world examples
- Guidelines for analyzing and reflecting on the shadowing experience
- Guidelines for shadowing in a virtual environment
- Guidelines for shadowing in a multilingual environment
- An assets-based orientation to student learning and the use of achievement data to improve ELL education
This book provides an entry point for broader, systemic improvement that will serve ELLs in more varied instructional settings, including monolingual and bilingual programs.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WHAT’S NEW IN THIS EDITION
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
SECTION I: PURPOSE OF SHADOWING
CHAPTER 1: CREATING A SENSE OF URGENCY
CHAPTER 2: HISTORY AND CONTEXT OF SHADOWING
CHAPTER 3: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOSUE, A MULTILINGUAL LEARNER
SECTION II: RESEARCH BASE
CHAPTER 4: THE ROLE OF ACADEMIC SPEAKING
CHAPTER 5: THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTIVE LISTENING
SECTION III: PREPARATION FOR SHADOWING
CHAPTER 6: PREPARING FOR A SHADOWING TRAINING
CHAPTER 7: HOW TO USE THE SHADOWING PROTOCOL
SECTION IV: DEBRIEFING THE SHADOWING EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER 8: ANALYZING AND REFLECTING ON THE RESULTS OF SHADOWING
CHAPTER 9: USING THE RESULTS TO LEVERAGE CHANGE
SECTION V: NEXT STEPS WITH SHADOWING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
CHAPTER 10: NEXT STEPS AND FOLLOW-UP TO SHADOWING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
APPENDIX A: SHADOWING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS RESOURCES
APPENDIX B: ACADEMIC LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
INDEX
This text is perfect for the course about Multilingual Education across K-12.
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