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Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: A Practical Guide (The Guilford Practical Intervention in Schools Series)
This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English-language learners and culturally diverse students in K-12 settings. It meets a crucial need among practitioners and special educators working in today's schools. Provided are research-based, step-by-step procedures for conducting effective interviews with students, parents, and teachers; making the best use of interpreters; addressing special issues in the prereferral process; and conducting accurate, unbiased assessments of academic achievement, intellectual functioning, language proficiency, and acculturation. Among the book's special features are reproducible worksheets, questionnaires, and checklists--including several in both English and Spanish--in a ready-to-use, large-size format. .
Price: $28.00
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Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Realities of Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Young Learners, K-6
Beneath the Surface provides both a framework and specific pedagogical strategies for working effectively with students learning English….Ken Pransky asks teachers to take an honest look at who they are, what they know and believe, and what they do in their classrooms. The result is to encourage teachers to be genuinely empathetic and - in the end - exactly the kind of teachers we need for the twenty-first century. - Sonia Nieto Author of Affirming Diversity, Fifth Edition You have culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students in your classroom. Some or all are underachieving. You're told you should teach differently, test more. You should make a stubborn achievement gap go away. But you just can't seem to make it work. With Beneath the Surface, you'll learn how to help CLD students think and learn in more school-matched ways - by first learning to think differently yourself. In Beneath the Surface. Ken Pransky combines important research with more than thirty years of experience to create a framework for thinking and strategies for practice that will help you: - learn who your CLD students are on their terms
- understand the process of learning in a deeper way, so that your teaching becomes more effective
- explicitly support CLD students' acquisition of school-matched English
- identify and teach underachieving CLD students the “secret” skills that are essential for academic success - and that are part of the upbringing of children from the “literacy culture”
- help underachieving CLD students succeed in math as well as reading.
With Beneath the Surface you can begin closing the achievement gap. You'll see classroom learning in a whole new light, and find effective ways to act on your observations to the benefit of all your students. You'll help CLD students build the foundation of confidence, skill, and belonging that every student needs for independent achievement in school. Every student in your diverse classroom wants to - and can - learn. Discover ways to help make it happen by looking Beneath the Surface. .
Price: $22.50
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Not for ESOL Teachers: What Every Classroom Teacher Needs to Know About the Linguistically, Culturally, and Ethnically Diverse Student
Because today's classroom teachers become defacto ESL teachers as soon as they have non-native English learners in their classrooms, this book offers teachers the tools they need to teach the same content and curriculum to both native and non-native English speakers by presenting ways in which they can modify and adapt their instruction. Its compact size makes the book accessible, convenient, and easy-to read..
Price: $23.79
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Assessment & Intervention for Communication Disorders in Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Populations
As speech-language pathologists care for more clients from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds, there is a growing need for strategies to provide successful and appropriate assessment and treatment. While no single source can cover every linguistic and cultural difference, this new text provides specific knowledge on the major cultural and linguistic groups an SLP may encounter, as well as best practices to assess and work effectively with any CLD student or adult. For practicing clinicians and speech-language pathology students alike, this is an excellent resource to help provide the most effective and appropriate services to all clients..
Price: $48.49
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Assessment Accommodations for Classroom Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Written by recognized experts in the field, Assessment Planning for CLD Students details effective classroom assessment practices for and usefully organizes recommended strategies around the four critical dimensions of the CLD student biography. This classroom-ready resource intentionally focuses on those classroom assessment practices that will prove effective with CLD students and useful to preK-12 teachers of those students. Unlike its competitors, the book begins and ends with practical assessment strategies for each of the four critical dimensions of the CLD student biography: the sociocultural, linguistic, academic, and cognitive dimensions..
Price: $45.99
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Methods for Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners
This book provides readers with a wealth of knowledge in instructional methods for culturally and linguistically diverse learners, designed to help differentiate between learning differences and learning disabilities and appropriately meet associated needs. It is written for any educator directly or indirectly involved in the K-12 education of culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional learners. This book may also serve as a valuable resource to professional development staff, school administrators, school psychologists, and other related service providers. .
Price: $28.99
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Assessment and Instruction of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with or At-Risk of Learning Problems: From Research to Practice
KEY BENEFIT: This book is an essential tool for any educator working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students It delivers applied recommendations from the research developed by scholars endorsing the importance of a constructivist and developmental perspective. Referred to as the “Ethnic Educator,” its approach emphasizes how educators must be responsive to the needs of CLD students and families. Appropriate for a wide range of professionals such as bilingual and special educators, education diagnosticians and psychologists, counselors, social workers, speech patholgists, and school administrators. .
Price: $49.95
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