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Hill, Jane – Educational Leadership, 2016
Teachers love to see the spark of engagement when students eagerly engage in learning. But when teachers work with English language learners in the earliest stages of language acquisition, they're often unsure how to foster challenge and engagement with students who know such sparse English. Hill shares six key do's and don'ts for classroom…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Novices, Guidelines
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Payne, Monica A. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2012
Stanley Hall's (1904) description of adolescence as a time "suggestive of some ancient period of storm and stress when old moorings were broken and a higher level attained" is arguably one of developmental psychology's most vivid and powerful metaphors. Its relatively insignificant contribution to Hall's treatise (Arnett, 2006), the early demise…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Developmental Psychology, Stereotypes, Adolescents
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Ruby Takanishi; Suzanne Le Menestrel – National Academies Press, 2017
Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society. Despite their linguistic, cognitive, and social potential, many ELs--who account for more than 9 percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in U.S. schools--are struggling to meet the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Bilingualism, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
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Casson, Stephen F. – Child & Youth Services, 2005
The provision of a coherent "parenting," "teaching," and "developmental" program is a complex undertaking. It has all the makings of an organizational, managerial, and therapeutic nightmare when different types of workers, with marked differences in personality and values, become responsible for different children with a variety of problems in a…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Language Usage, Residential Programs, At Risk Persons