Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner

by Maria G. Dove, Andrea M. Honigsfeld, Audrey F. Cohan

Overview

Create a schoolwide foundation to ensure academic success for ALL students

This book demonstrates a system-wide approach to support the learning needs of culturally, linguistically, and academically diverse students. The authors deliver a six-point model for developing improved programs, policies, and practices, including:

• Mapping and aligning an integrated curriculum—making the mainstream curricula accessible for all learners
• Collaborative planning and assessment—pooling teachers’ intelligence so the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• Teaching students explicit learning strategies—empowering students by taking the focus off the teacher and putting it back on learners

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483331935
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/20/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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Maria G. Dove, EdD is Associate Professor in the Division of Education at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York, where she teaches preservice and inservice 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 Nassau County, New York.

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 diverse students. She also serves as a mentor for new ESOL teachers as well as an instructional coach for general-education teachers and literacy specialists. She has published articles and book chapters on collaborative teaching practices, instructional leadership, and collaborative coaching. With Andrea Honigsfeld, she coauthored three best-selling Corwin books, 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), and Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6–12: English Language Arts Strategies (2013). Their latest volume is Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014). The same writing team also co-edited, Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale, Research, Reflections, and Recommendations (2012), published by Information Age.

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Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD, is Associate Dean and Professor in the Division of Education at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. She directs a doctoral program in Educational leadership for Diverse Learning Communities. 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 and learning styles. She has published extensively on working with English language learners and providing individualized instruction based on learning style preferences. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past twelve years, she has been presenting at conferences across the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, the Philippines, 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), 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-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),—the first three Corwin bestsellers.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. A Shared and Inclusive Vision and Mission
At a Glance
An Inclusive, Collaboratively Developed Vision and Mission
The Rationale
Evidence in Support of a Shared Vision and Mission
Promising Practices
The Looks Fors
The Complexities of Literacy
Something to Remember
Key Resources
2. Schoolwide Displinary Literacy
At a Glance
The Intricacies of Academic Language
The Rationale
The Evidence
The Look Fors
Promising Practices
Something to Remember
Key Resources
3. The mapping and Alignment of an Integrated Curriculum
At a Glance
Core Curriculum Development
The Rationale
The Evidence
Promising Practices
The Look Fors
Something to Remember
Key Resources
4. Collaborative Planning, Instruction, and Assessment
At a Glance
Why Collaboration is an Essential Practice
The Rationale
The Evidence
Promising Practices
The Look Fors
Something to Remember
Key Resources
5. Teaching Students Explicit Learning Strategies
At a Glance
Explicit Instruction
The Rationale
The Evidence
Promising Practices
The Look Fors
Something to Remember
Key Resources
6. Student Engagment
At a Glance
Student Engagement
The Rationale
The Evidence
Promising Practices
The Look Fors
Something to Remember
Key Resources
Final Thoughts
References