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Collaborating for English Learners

A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices

By: Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria G. Dove

Looking for a silver bullet to accelerate EL achievement? There is none. 

But this, we promise: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs’ language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Just ask the tens of thousands of Collaboration and Co-Teaching users and now, a new generation of educators, thanks to this all-new second edition: Collaborating for English Learners.

Why this new edition? Because more than a decade of implementation has generated for Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove new insight into what exemplary teacher collaboration looks like, which essential frameworks must be established, and how integrated approaches to ELD services benefit all stakeholders. Essentially a roadmap to the many different ways we can all work together, this second edition of Collaborating for English Learners features: 
  • All-new examples, case studies, illustrative video, and policy updates 
  • In-depth coverage of the full range of strategies and configurations for determining the best model to adopt
  • Templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practice
  • Guidelines, self-assessments, and questionnaires for evaluating the strategies’ effectiveness
By this time, the big benefits of teacher collaboration are well documented. Where teachers and schools struggle still is determining the best way to do so, especially when working with our ELs. That’s where Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, and their second edition of Collaborating for English Learners will prove absolutely indispensable. After all, there are no two better authorities.
Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781544340036
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2019
  • Page Count: 288
  • Publication date: February 11, 2019

Price: $42.95

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Looking for a silver bullet to accelerate EL achievement? There is none. 

But this, we promise: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs’ language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Just ask the tens of thousands of Collaboration and Co-Teaching users and now, a new generation of educators, thanks to this all-new second edition: Collaborating for English Learners.

Why this new edition? Because more than a decade of implementation has generated for Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove new insight into what exemplary teacher collaboration looks like, which essential frameworks must be established, and how integrated approaches to ELD services benefit all stakeholders. Essentially a roadmap to the many different ways we can all work together, this second edition of Collaborating for English Learners features: 
  • All-new examples, case studies, illustrative video, and policy updates 
  • In-depth coverage of the full range of strategies and configurations for determining the best model to adopt
  • Templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practice
  • Guidelines, self-assessments, and questionnaires for evaluating the strategies’ effectiveness
By this time, the big benefits of teacher collaboration are well documented. Where teachers and schools struggle still is determining the best way to do so, especially when working with our ELs. That’s where Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, and their second edition of Collaborating for English Learners will prove absolutely indispensable. After all, there are no two better authorities.

Key features

  • Provides a step-by-step guide to co-teaching and collaboration between EL specialists and mainstream classroom teachers to better serve the needs of ELs
  • Each chapter opens with authentic classroom and school-based examples that depict successful practice across various collaborative models
  • Includes a range of practical tools, such as templates, planning guides, and questionnaires, that can be easily adapted for classroom use
  • Thoroughly updated including new developments in policy and practice and informed by the authors extensive experience with implementing their models across the country.
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Andrea Honigsfeld

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Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD, is TESOL Professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. She teaches graduate courses on linguistics, TESOL methods, and cultural and linguistic diversity. Before entering the field of teacher education, she was an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher in Hungary (Grades 5–8 and adult) and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City (Grades K–3 and adult). She also taught Hungarian at New York University.

She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. John’s University, New York, where she conducted research on individualized instruction. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past 20 years, she has been presenting at conferences across the United States, Canada, China, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates. She frequently offers staff development, primarily focusing on effective differentiated strategies and collaborative practices for English-as-a-second-language and general-education teachers. She coauthored Differentiated Instruction for At-Risk Students (2009) and co-edited the five-volume Breaking the Mold of Education series (2010–2013), published by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also the co-author of Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching, K–5 and 6–12 (2014) and author of Growing Language and Literacy (2019) published by Heinemann. With Maria Dove, she co-edited Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale, Research, Reflections, and Recommendations (2012) and Co-Teaching for English Learners: Evidence-based Practices and Research-Informed Outcomes (2020). Maria and Andrea also co-authored Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K–5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6–12: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So- Common Learner (2014), Collaboration and Co-Teaching: A Leader’s Guide (2015), Coteaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning, Instruction, Assessment, and Reflection (2018), and Collaborating for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019), Co-Planning: 5 Essential Practices to Integrate Curriculum and Instruction for English Learners (2022). She is a contributing author of Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learner Success (2020), From Equity Insights to Action (2021), and Digital-Age Teaching for English Learners (2022), and Collaboration and Coteaching for Dual Language Learners (2022). Nine of her Corwin books are bestsellers.

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Maria G. Dove

Maria G. Dove, Ed.D, is Professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York, where she teaches pre-service and in-service teachers about the research and best practices for developing effective programs and school policies for English learners. Before entering the field of higher education, she worked for over thirty years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in public school settings (Grades K–12) and in adult English language programs. In 2010, she received the Outstanding ESOL Educator Award from New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYS TESOL). She frequently provides professional development for educators throughout the United States on the teaching of culturally and linguistically diverse students. She has published numerous books, articles, and book chapters on collaborative teaching practices and instructional strategies for English learners. With Andrea Honigsfeld, she coauthored four best-selling Corwin Press books, Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K–5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6–12: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Co-Teaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Co-Planning, Co-Teaching, Co-Assessment, and Reflection (2018) and their latest volume, the second edition of their 2010 best seller, Collaboration for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


1. What Is This Book About?

     Overview

     What Guided Us When We Wrote This Book?

     The Purpose

     Structure and Organization of the Book

     The English Learner Population

     Collaboration

     Program Models Serving English Learners

     What Can We Learn From the History and Research on Collaborative Practices?

     Teacher Collaboration in Today’s Schools 17

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

     Key Online Resources

2. Why Is Collaboration Needed?

     Overview

     Understanding English Learners

     Challenges School Administrators Face

     Why Collaboration Is the Answer to the Challenges Teachers and Administrators Face

     Why Co-Teaching Is a Possible Answer to Challenges Teachers and Administrators Face

     Administrators’ Role: Creating a School Community to Support Effective Instruction for ELs

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

     Key Online Resources

3. Who Does Teacher Collaboration and Co-Teaching for ELs Concern?

     Overview

     All Stakeholders

     Administrators’ Role: Developing and Sustaining a Collaborative School Culture

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

     Key Online Resources

4. What Are the Essential Components of an Integrated, Collaborative Service Delivery for ELs?

     Overview

     Informal Collaborative Practices

     Formal Collaborative Practices

     Administrators’ Role: Creating Collaborative Opportunities and Supporting Collaborative Efforts

     What Administrators Need to Consider

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

     Key Online Resources

5. How Do Teachers Plan, Instruct, Assess, and Reflect Collaboratively?

     Overview

     Making a Case for Collaborative Efforts

     Launching the Collaboration Team: Top Down or Bottom Up?

     Collaborative Teams in Action

     A Framework for Effective Collaborative Instruction

     Technology and Collaboration

     Co-Teaching for Powerful Instruction

     Collaborative Student Assessment

     Administrators’ Role: Effective Management of Resources

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

     Key Online Resources

6. When Do Teachers Collaborate and Co-Teach?

     Overview

     Time and Structure for Teamwork

     Setting a Purpose for Collaboration

     Two Observations of Ongoing Collaboration

     A Remedy for Time Limitations: Conversation Protocols

     When Do Collaborative Teams Meet?

     Expectations for Teacher Collaboration

     Time frames for Co-teaching

     Administrators’ Role: Scheduling and Supporting Collaborative and Co-Teaching Practices

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

     Key Online Resources

7. Where Do Teachers Collaborate and Co-Teach?

     Overview

     Reexamining the Importance of Positive School Culture

     Spaces and Places for Teacher Collaboration

     Collaboration Inside the Classroom

     Classroom Design for Co-Taught Lessons

     The Impact of Classroom Design

     Administrators’ Role: School Organization and Logistics

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

     Key Online Resources

8. What Next? Reviewing and Evaluating Integrated, Collaborative Service Delivery for ELs

     Overview

     Reflective Practices

     Self-Assessment Tools

     Ongoing (Formative) Collaborative Program Assessment

     Program Evaluation

     Administrators’ Role: Leading Effective Assessment Practices

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

     Key Online Resources

9. Portraits of Collaboration

     Overview

     Districtwide Case Study

     Elementary School Case Study #1

     Elementary School Case Study #2

     Middle School Case Study #1

     Middle School Case Study #2

     High School Case Study #1

     High School Case Study #2

     Summary

     Discussion Questions

References


Name Index


Subject Index


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