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Download full textPaulina Yourupi-Sandy; Joyminda George – Region 18 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Federated States of Micronesia National Department of Education (FSM NDOE) requested support from the Region 18 Comprehensive Center (R18CC) to build National and State-level knowledge of effective practices in bilingual and multilingual education. This scan offers an overview of evidence-based practices for implementing and evaluating the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Effectiveness
Direct linkTedick, Diane J.; Christian, Donna; Fortune, Tara Williams – Multilingual Matters, 2011
This volume builds on Fortune and Tedick's 2008 Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education and showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous programs. Contributors present new…
Descriptors: Program Design, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Program Implementation
Imbimbo, Josephine; Knopf, Naomi; Brady, Vivian Lee; Shimabukuro, Leanne – New Visions for Public Schools, 2009
The Center for School Success (CSS) at New Visions for Public Schools was founded in 1999 to document and disseminate innovative educational practices demonstrated by New Visions' schools that hold promise for increasing student achievement throughout New York City. Over the first year, CSS concentrated its initial documentation efforts on…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Community Schools, Academic Achievement, Educational Practices
Gilzow, Douglas F.; Branaman, Lucinda E. – 2000
This book describes 7 successful foreign language programs that start in preschool or the elementary grades and continue through high school, including both foreign language in the elementary school (FLES) and immersion programs. Written in clear and nontechnical language, this book is designed to be of use to anyone developing an early foreign…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, FLES
Syrja, Rachel Carrillo – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This book provides practical strategies and tools for assessing and teaching even the most hard to reach English language learners across the content areas. Syrja offers educators the latest information on working with ELLs (including using formative assessments) and provides a wealth of classroom-tested models and measures. These tools have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Success
Lindholm, Kathryn J. – 1993
The two-way bilingual language arts portfolio was designed to help teachers, administrators, parents, and others understand the level of language arts development of students in the two-way bilingual program. It was originally conceived as a method of student assessment, to substantiate teachers' observations that students were making significant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Almandos, Carmen; Petzold, Aline – 2001
This paper describes a model for assessing English speaking students with possible learning disabilities at a Spanish language immersion magnet school in St. Paul, Minnesota. The assessment process is based on established procedures for screening and assessment of Limited English Proficient/English Language Learners. Emphasis is on: (1) attention…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Identification, Ecological Factors, Elementary Education
Chicago Board of Education, IL. – 1991
In September 1980, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Justice signed a consent degree that committed the board to the development of a comprehensive student desegregation plan to remedy the effects of past segregation on Black and Hispanic students. To fulfill the goals of the Chicago Desegregation Plan,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1985
This general report presents findings of Manitoba's 1985 assessment of kindergarten English, French immersion, and heritage language programs. The report contains a description of classroom observations, and summaries of interviews with teachers and principals. Sections of the report focus on: (1) background to the assessment; (2) physical…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences, Educational Improvement, English Instruction
Estrada, Peggy – Research in the Teaching of English, 2005
A successful collaboration resulted in a researcher and a teacher linking professional development with change in small-group reading instruction and student achievement. The context was a two-way Spanish-English bilingual immersion first-grade classroom with many English language learners (ELLs), located in a low-performing, high-poverty school.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teacher Improvement, Faculty Development, Reading Achievement
Rhodes, Nancy C. – 1996
An alternative assessment instrument developed to assess oral language skills of students in Spanish immersion programs in the United States is described. Originally developed by the Center for Applied Linguistic to evaluate 6-year-old immersion students' speaking and listening skills in a school in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the Student Oral…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Tarnopolsky, Oleg B. – 1996
An intensive course in English for business communication, offered at an institute for graduate-level teacher training in Ukraine, is described. An introductory section examines the need for and approaches to English-as-a-Second-Language teaching in Ukraine. The course consists of two main parts: a 14-week intensive general English class, titled…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Business Communication, College Second Language Programs, Course Descriptions
