Hodder Education
Let Our Children Soar! The Complexity and Possibilities of Educating the English Language Student
Let Our Children Soar! The Complexity and Possibilities of Educating the English Language Student
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This is a story about English language learners - one in particular - and a reflection on what we, as educators, can do to promote their success.

As educators, we're faced every day with the question of how to teach the thousands - many thousands - of children who arrive in our schools as immigrants and refugees, coming with no English, from cultural backgrounds so different from America's, often from impoverished households and often from households where education of the kind we know was completely absent.

Our work as educators is to help these children start to climb the wall that stands between their past, wherever and however that was lived, and a future in America, where their education will prepare them to take advantage of the same opportunities everyone else here enjoys.

This is not an easy job. But it's one we can't afford to get wrong. And this is not a small corner in our education system today. The number of English language learners in U.S. school systems is large and growing. And the educators involved in teaching this exceptional population include basically everyone, not just those teachers with direct classroom contact. When they're in the building, the entire school is the English language learner's world.

Language
English
ISBN
9781036001322
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Acknowledgements
Contents
Foreword: By Carlos A Garcia
Chapter 1: This little boy might come to your school
Chapter 2: You know where you were born
Chapter 3: America came to us before we came to America
Chapter 4: Waiting, hoping, and radio school
Chapter 5: From the hamlet to Seward Park High School
Chapter 6: How did that happen?
Chapter 7: Hope and possibility
Chapter 8: The place of common sense in education reform
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