Research For The Classroom And Success With Ells

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Research for the Classroom
Editor: Julie Gorlewski
Research provides a lens through which teachers can better understand our pedagogical successes and failures. Research illuminates the social and political contexts of education, enhancing our appreciation of students, their families, and Tag Heuer Replica the communities we serve. The principles of research offer a foundation for reflective practice.

Classrooms are laboratories for teaching and learning. In this era of accountability, it is important for teachers to apply research to practice. We must be collaborators in the process of deciding what works, not merely consumers of products deemed "research-based." In the spirit of a critical theoretical approach, this column will seek both to clarify and to problematize research-based practices.

Submissions for this column might include an informal mini-study or a story about an attempt--successful or not--to conduct classroom research. Contributors should focus on a classroom application of professional scholarship by considering ...
... these questions: What worked (and didn't work) in my classroom? Why? How do I know? Also welcome are short reviews of recently published books that contributors believe can enhance teachers' classroom research practices. Submissions should be 1,000-2,000 words.

Authors, especially new contributors, are encouraged to submit ideas for columns.

Success with ELLs
Editor: Margo DelliCarpini

English educators face increasing linguistic diversity in their classrooms. In fact, enrollment of English language learners (ELLs) in the nation's public schools between the years 1990 and 2000 grew by 105 percent, compared to a 12 percent overall growth rate among the general school population. ELLs enter our classrooms with a variety of prior school experiences, cultural expectations, and literacy experiences. Making the English language arts curriculum accessible to ELLs can pose unique challenges. However, when teachers implement strategies that target the needs of ELLs, all students can benefit.

This column will be a place where classroom teachers can find helpful ideas for teaching ELLs. Please submit manuscripts regarding challenges ELLs encounter in mainstream English classes and how you have developed innovative strategies to address their needs while enhancing the learning environment for all learners. Please Replica Tag Heuer Carrera Watches share materials and practices that you have found to be especially effective for your ELLs, reports of successful collaborative instruction, motivational strategies that you use, and ways you connect content to ELLs' lives. Secondary-level English teachers are especially encouraged to submit their ideas. New authors who have ideas for columns that need development are encouraged to contact the editor. Send ideas or complete submissions of 500--1,500 words to Margo DelliCarpini .