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Adapting Content to Empower English Language Learning Students (ACEES): Professional Development for Content Area Instructors, Grades 6-12

Margaret A. Rohan, Nova Southeastern University

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&>Aimed at 6-12 grade content area instructors that work with ELLs, this book emphasizes the importance of developing and enhancing teachers’ abilities to work with linguistically and culturally diverse students using their districts’ adopted text materials.

Adapting Content to Empower English-Language-Learning Students (ACEES) is designed to provide a resource for professional development to assist secondary teachers in meeting achievement standards for teaching English-Language-Learner students. There remains a stark mismatch between adequate professional development to help teachers work with ELLs and what is actually delivered. With added pressures on teachers to ensure that standardized test strategies are covered, emanating from the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, teachers need to reach out to ELL students who have achieved varying degrees of English language proficiency. The book was written to provide a resource for both instructors and teacher-trainers in developing best practice instructional approaches to teach ELL students at the secondary level.

ACEES is very specific for content teachers. The text focuses on principles of effective practice and resource material analysis, equitable assessment of ELLs, second language acquisition, reading, writing and literacy, specific accommodations in math, science and social studies, instructional technology and cross-cultural dimensions. This book provides many techniques and strategies in an effort to ameliorate a teacher’s ‘treasure chest’ of instructional tools and utilize them directly in daily classroom practice. The strategies, tools, techniques and examples described in this book are very effective with struggling native English speakers as well as ELL students. There are activities for teachers to explore aspects of instructing ELL students that concentrate on cultivating vocabulary and presenting comprehensible instruction, which includes sample content area lesson plans, vocabulary games, cooperative learning group activities, portfolio development and questioning techniques, as well as equitable ways of assessing ELL students

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Reviews

“[With] innovative lesson plans, the compilation of effective teaching strategies, and the emphasis on their flexible use in all subject areas… this book is about making teachers more effective through awareness and teacher/student reflection [that] is much needed in today’s classrooms.”~ Donna C. Horton, Hillcrest Middle School

“This textbook is very unique and very well designed to assist teachers in many disciplines with addressing the various challenges of teaching ELL students.”” ~ Dr. Karen Mae Lafferty, Morehead State University

Features

Aimed specifically at 6-12 grade instructors working with ELLs in content areas such as math, science and social studies.
Addresses No Child Left Behind Act issues regarding standardized test strategies for ELLs
Engages the participant in teacher training with a variety of multi-media activities, hands-on activities and recent, informative research articles
Contains many reproducible graphic organizers, vocabulary games, text reading techniques, cooperative learning group activities and portfolio essentials.
Includes several sample content area lesson plans and student samples of writing prompts.

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&>Margaret A. Rohan has worked as a public school educator with under-represented student populations, including dropout prevention, Title I, Migrant and ELL programs, for 22 years, earning a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership in 2006. She has taught Multicultural Education courses at Florida Atlantic University, Indian River State College and Nova Southeastern University for the past 10 years. Her research concentrates on secondary ELL teachers, students and families in Florida and Georgia. Rohan is currently an ELL Resource instructor, working in Denver with predominantly refugee children from many places on the planet. She dreams of someday building an off-the-grid home in the back hills of Colorado.