Description
Book SynopsisGuides 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. The book offers direction for designing lessons and units and provides examples that demonstrate the approach in various subject areas.
Table of 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
