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• Title: Meeting the Challenge of Diversity: Professional Development for Teacher Educators (Report)
• Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 227 KB

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According to recent demographic data, over 1.5 million English learners (EL) attend public and private schools in California. This number is expected to exceed two million by 2015 (California Department of Education, 2002), thus greatly increasing the number of students in need of language and literacy development in English. The situation is similar in many other states where changing immigration patterns have brought native speakers of other languages to schools in growing numbers. In fact, half of all teachers nationally may expect to have a culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) student in their classroom at some point in their career (Menken & Antunez, 2001). Consequently, the provision of English language and subject matter instruction to English learners is one of the most critical challenges confronting teachers and teacher educators today. While the number of English learners enrolled in K-12 schools continues to grow dramatically, only a fraction of those students are in bilingual or ESL classrooms. Thus, the majority of English learners receive most, if not all, of their instruction from regular classroom teachers. Tragically, most teachers in these classrooms have little or no training in the learning needs of CLD students (AACTE, 2002).

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