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Beneath the Surface provides both a framework and specific pedagogical strategies for working effectively with students learning Englishā¦. 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 andāin the endāexactly the kind of teachers we need for the twenty-first century.
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Author of Affirming Diversity, Fifth Edition
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You have culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students in your classroom. Some or all are underachieving. Youāre told you should teach differently, test more. You should make a stubborn achievement gap go away. But you just canāt seem to make it work. With Beneath the Surface, youāll learn how to help CLD students think and learn in more school-matched waysāby first learning to think differently yourself.
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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:
- Ā 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 studentsā acquisition of school-matched English
- identify and teach underachieving CLD students the āsecretā skills that are essential for academic successāand that are part of the upbringing of children from the āliteracy cultureā
- help underachieving CLD students succeed in math as well as reading.
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With Beneath the Surface you can begin closing the achievement gap. Youāll see classroom learning in a whole new light, and find effective ways to act on your observations to the benefit of all your students. Youāll help CLD students build the foundation of confidence, skill, and belonging that every student needs for independent achievement in school.
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Every student in your diverse classroom wants toāand canālearn. Discover ways to help make it happen by looking Beneath the Surface.
This book title, Beneath the Surface (The Hidden Realities of Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Young Lea rners, K-6), ISBN: 9780325012025, by Ken Pransky, published by Heinemann (August 4, 2008) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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