http://netvouz.com/jgordon/tag/content?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks tagged "content" on Netvouz http://www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/bolintro.htm A long-term American Association for the Advancement of Science initiative to advance literacy in Science, Mathematics, and Technology. A comprehensive project to develop essential curriculum for K-12, including some Social Studies themes. Enduring understandings are identified for the essential content. Curriculum Development > Examples of Understandings/Big Ideas: Many with Curr. Dev. Examples jgordon Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:58:24 GMT http://www.heinemann.com/products/E00273.aspx by Sandra P. Mercuri, Yvonne S. Freeman, David E. Freeman - Struggling older English learners pose a real challenge for educators. Some of these students are new arrivals with limited or interrupted schooling. Others have been in and out of ESL and bilingual programs in this country since kindergarten, but have never succeeded academically. This book provides research-based practices and comprehensive examples from three teachers. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:37:11 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Connecting-Academic-Language-Learners-Struggling/dp/1412988438/ref=sr_1_83?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313182496&sr=1-83 This book by Ruth Swinney and Patricia Velasco focuses on increasing teachers’ expertise in developing all students’ academic language. Included are graphic organizers, sample lesson plans, and reproducibles. The editorial reviews strongly applaud the effectiveness of this resource. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:06:12 GMT http://www.heinemann.com/products/E01203.aspx Deep understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. Pauline Gibbons presents an action-oriented approach that gives English learners high-level support to match our high expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum looks like in practice.Strongly recommended by Jim Cummins Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:51:02 GMT http://www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=8971&r=sb051208 This book by Maria Carty helps teachers of content-area subjects discover ways to help their students become better, more capable writers. It shows them how to take students through all the steps involved in producing written documents—from generating ideas to researching to revising and editing—and provides them a wealth of practical tips for supporting and encouraging student work. Exploring Writing in the Content Areas suggests specific techniques designed to help students: Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Literacy > Writing jgordon Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:35:33 GMT http://www.allynbaconmerrill.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132487128 This guide by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey is packed with real classroom examples of specific teaching strategies in action and features a focus on working with English language learners and struggling readers, ideas for using different technologies to enhance teaching, an up-to-date research base of current sources of support and additional reading, and an excellent assessment chapter showing how various formal and informal assessments can be used in the classroom. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > English Language Learners jgordon Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:52:57 GMT http://books.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00366/chapter5.pdf This is an excerpt from the book Scaffolding Language Scaffolding Learning, Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom (2002) by Pauline Gibbons Literacy > ELLs (See ESL section also) jgordon Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:31:43 GMT http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Depts/SPED/Forms/Kens%20Readings/Vocabulary/Vocab%20Rethinking%20English%20lang%20instruction%20Dutro%202002.pdf Susana Dutro and Carrol Mora (Chapter draft for English Learners Ed. by Garcia) The authors us an architectural metaphor to lay out a blueprint that outlines how to conceptualize an ELD program, how to design instruction, and how to teach English for academic purposes. Excellent explanation of function, form and fluency as well as the "bricks" and "mortar" for vocabulary. English as a New Language > Sheltered Instruction (Teaching Content to ELLs) jgordon Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:31:22 GMT http://www.alliance.brown.edu/tdl/tl-strategies/mc-principles.shtml Great intro to sheltered instruction by LAB at Brown: Teaching Diverse Learners --. The success of Sheltered English Instruction depends largely on a teacher's ability to provide modified instruction in English without oversimplifying the content. English as a New Language > Sheltered Instruction (Teaching Content to ELLs) jgordon Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:52:07 GMT http://www.teachersdomain.org/ Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development Diverse Modalities > Media jgordon Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:51:15 GMT