Teaching Learners Of English In Mainstream Classrooms, K-8: One Class, Many Paths

A consultant for ESL and EFL programs for school-age children, Levine has extensive experience as an educator and program developer in the U.S. and abroad; she is the Home Room columnist for TESOL's Essential Teacher. McCloskey is a consultant and a former TESOL president; she has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, chapters, and professional texts, and has extensive experience as a teacher educator. They offer a practical text to assist K-12 teachers who are seeing increasing numbers of English language learners (ELLs) in their classrooms. Coverage includes language acquisition and language learning in the classroom, integrated language teaching and learning, connecting with home and community, classroom management for integrated language learning, oral language development strategies, literacy development with ELLs, structuring and planning content-language integrated lessons, assessment tools, and developing content-based thematic units. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Linda New Levine is a consultant for public school teachers of language learning children and for programs for teaching English as a Foreign Language in both primary and secondary classrooms and holds a Masters in TESOL and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from New York University. . She has been a teacher of English as a Second Language and a Staff Development Facilitator for the Bedford Central school district, New York. Levine was an adjunct assistant professor of ESL Methods and Materials for school-age children at Teachers College, Columbia University and has written Elementary ESL curriculum and conducted numerous workshops with ESL, EFL and mainstream teachers in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Dr. Mary Lou McCloskey, former President of TESOL, is Director of Teacher Education and Curriculum Development for Educo in Atlanta. As a consultant and author in the field of English language education, she has worked with teachers, teacher educators, and departments and ministries of education on five continents and in 35 of the 50 United States. Current projects include Teaching Tolerance through English, a project with teens and teachers in Central Europe; working as consultant to the FugeesFamily, a nonprofit group that serves school-age refugees in Atlanta, on ways to best develop literacy; and an anthology of contemporary literature for teens learning English. Author of many professional books and programs for learners, including On Our Way to English, Voices, Visions and McDougal Littell Literature. McCloskey considers her most important credential, however, her years of experience with multilingual, multicultural learners and teachers, from pre-school through postgraduate.