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Essay: Creating a Foundation Through Student Conversation
This essay discusses a pedagogical practice called Science talks. Science talks allow students to use their diverse language practices and life experi...
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What is culture? How does it figure into learning and teaching? What can educators do to make their classrooms sites of deep learning for all children...
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Case Study: Using Students' Cultural Resources in Teaching
Teachers often want to incorporate their students’ cultural resources into the curriculum but do not know how. This case study describes what teache...
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A Teacher's Perspective: What Is Culture?
In her chapter, “What Is Culture?,” page 89, Norma González explains how the concept of culture has evolved historically and how it has affected ...
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Essay: Learning a Second Language
What challenges face students who are learning a second language at the same time as they are learning science? This essay considers some of the diff...
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Case Study: Using Two Languages to Learn Science
Often teachers ask their English language learners to confine themselves to using English as they explore ideas, frequently because the teacher does n...
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A Teacher's Perspective: Learning a Second Language
In “Learning a Second Language,” page 107, Ellen Bialystok explains the ways in which reading a science text in a second language makes learning m...
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Essay: Programs for Teaching English Language Learners
Today's K-12 American classrooms are rich with students from families of diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and linguistic backgrounds. An increasingly ...
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A Teacher's Perspective: Programs for Teaching English Language Learners
In their essay, “Programs for Teaching English Language Learners,” page 129, Fred Genesee and Donna Christian take an in-depth look at some of the...
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Essay: Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Communities
The population of the United States is more ethnically and racially diverse than ever, a fact particularly evident among young and school-age children...
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A Teacher's Perspective: Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Communities
In their essay, “Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Communities,” page 151, Eugene García and Okhee Lee begin with the idea that human being...
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Essay: What Is Equity in Science Education?
Concerns about equity often influence and drive decision making by educators and policy makers. How do these concerns—and different understandings o...
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A Teacher's Perspective: What Is Equity in Science Education?
In his essay, “What is Equity in Science Education?,” page 167, Walter Secada challenges our understanding of equity by raising questions about ho...
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Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Diversity in the Science Classroom
This book has discussed steps teachers can take toward reconceptualizing diversity as an intellectual strength in the science classroom. By way of clo...
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Essay: Using Students' Conversational Style
In the United States, science instruction is based on an idealized, Western view of scientific practice and on the language practices of a middle-clas...