Teacher Preparation for Bilingual Student Populations

<p>The growing number of bilingual students in public schools coupled with a critical shortage of teachers specially prepared to serve this population calls for a critical examination of policies and practices in bilingual and ESL teacher preparation. This volume focuses on understanding the structural, substantive, and contextual elements of preparation programs, and provides transformative guidelines for creating <em>Educar</em> signature programs. Designed to improve the practice of teacher preparation by promoting dialogic conversations and applications of praxis in the preparation of bilingual/ESL teacher candidates, it emphasizes that exemplary teacher preparation requires transformative teacher educators. </p><p>Simultaneously organizing the scholarship in the field and advancing new understandings, this book is must-have resource for current and future teacher educators. Contributors include Maria Brisk, Sylvia Celédon-Pattichis, Lourdes Diaz-Soto, Eugene García, Virginia Gonzáles, Guillermo Solano-Flores, Maria Torres-Guzman, Carmen Mercado, Bertha Pérez, Mari Riojas-Cortez, Francisco Rios, Concepción Valadez, and Angela Valenzuela. </p> <p><strong>Foreword </strong><em>Educar para Transformar </em>Eugene Garcia</p><p><strong>PART 1 <em>TRANSFORMACION</em></strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 1 </strong><em>Dar Luz: Visionary Teaching about Teaching</em> Belinda Bustos Flores, Rosa Hernandez Sheets, and Ellen Riojas Clark</p><p><strong>Chapter 2</strong> <em>Educar para Transformar: A Bilingual Education Teacher Preparation Model</em> Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Belinda Bustos Flores, and Ellen Riojas Clark</p><p><strong>PART 2 <em>ILUMINACION</em></strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 3</strong> <em>Identity: A Central Facet of Culturally Efficacious Bilingual Education Teachers</em> Ellen Riojas Clark, Linda Guardia Jackson, and Linda Pietro</p><p><strong>Chapter 4</strong> <em>Bilingual Education Candidate Ideology: Descubriendo sus Motivos y Creencias</em> Belinda Bustos Flores, Lucila Elk, and Patricia Sanchez</p><p><strong>Chapter 5</strong> <em>Fostering Candidate Spanish Language Development</em> Michael D. Guerrero and Concepcion M. Valadez</p><p><strong>Chapter 6</strong> <em>Diversity Coursework: Developing Cultural Competency</em> Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Blanca Araujo, Gloria Calderon, and John Indiatsi</p><p><strong>Chapter 7</strong> <em>Crisalida: A Metaphor for Bilingual Education Teacher Preparation</em> Maria Torres Guzman and Thao Tran</p><p><strong>PART 3 <em>PRAXIS</em></strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 8 </strong><em>El Aprendizaje por Medio del Juego: Bilingual Early Childhood Settings</em> Mari Riojas Cortez and Iliana Alanis</p><p><strong>Chapter 9 </strong><em>Dynamic Biliteracy: Teacher Knowledge and Practice </em>Bertha Perez and Mary Esther Huerta</p><p><strong>Chapter 10</strong><em> Bilingual/ESL Candidate Knowledge for Mathematics and Science Teaching</em> Sylvia Celedon-Pattichis and Kimberly Gomez</p><p><strong>Chapter 11</strong> <em>Meaningful Assessment in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms</em> Guillermo Solano-Flores and Lucinda Soltero-Gonzalez</p><p><strong>Chapter 12</strong> <em>Preparando Maestro: ESL Candidate/Teacher Preparation</em> Francisco Rios and Marcela van Olphen</p><p><strong>Chapter 13</strong> <em>Transformative Teacher Education for Gifted Students in Bilingual/ESL Programs</em> Virginia Gonzalez and Mariela Espinoza-Herold</p><p><strong>Chapter 14</strong> <em>It's My Responsibility! Teacher of Bilingual Learners in an English-Immersion Context</em> Courtney Clayton and Maria Brisk</p><p><strong>PART 4 <em>CONCIENTIZACION</em></strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 15</strong> <em>Subtractive Legislative Policy: The Plight of Texas Bilingual Learners</em> Claudia Cervantes-Soon and Angela Valenzuela</p><p><strong>Chapter 16</strong> <em>Trabajando y Comunicando con Nuestras Comunidades Indigenas Inmigrantes</em> Margarita Machado-Casas and Barbara Flores</p><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong>7 <em>Growing Quality Teachers: Community-oriented Preparation</em> Carmen I. Mercado and Carol Brochin-Ceballos</p><p><strong>Chapter 18</strong> <em>Apprenticeship: Affirming Consciousness in Learning Communities</em> Belinda Bustos Flores, Claudia Trevino Garcia, Lorena Claeys, Arcelia Hernandez, and Rosa Hernandez Sheets</p><p><strong>PART 5 <em>REVOLUCION</em></strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 19</strong> <em>Ya es tiempo! Revolutionary Transformacion</em> Ellen Riojas Clark, Belinda Bustos Flores, and Rosa Hernandez Sheets</p><p><strong>Afterword</strong> <em>Implementing a Critical Bilingual/Bicultural Pedagogy </em>Lourdes Diaz-Soto</p><p><strong>Index</strong></p><p><strong>List of Contributors</strong></p>