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The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide, 2nd Edition offers educators practical strategies for setting up an ESL-friendly classroom, motivating and interacting with students, communicating with parents of English language learners, and navigating the challenges inherent in teaching ESL students. The second edition includes more than 150 pages of new content, including: A new chapter on working with Long-Term English Language Learners A new chapter on teaching English to students in countries where English is not the primary language A new chapter on Teaching Elementary Age ELLs An updated chapter on Math An updated chapter on Science Revised connections to Common Core Standards Updated research & technology connections Many new instructional strategies and student hand-outs that we were not able to include in The ELL Teacher's Toolbox, including sections on assessment, homework, the summer slide and many more.
About the Author
I teach English, Social Studies and International Baccalaureate classes to English Language Learners and mainstream students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California.I've written nine books: Building A Community Of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies To Help Students Thrive In School and Beyond; Classroom Management Q&As: Expert Strategies for Teaching; Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies For Student Motivation; The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski) ; Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges; English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work; Navigating The Common Core With English Language Learners (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski) ; Building Parent Engagement In Schools (with co-author Lorie Hammond) and The ELL Teacher's Toolbox (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski) .I've won several awards, including the Leadership For A Changing World Award from the Ford Foundation and was the Grand Prize Winner of the International Reading Association Award for Technology and Reading.I write a popular education blog at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ , a weekly teacher advice column for Education Week Teacher and education posts for The New York Times. My articles on education policy regularly appear in the Washington Post and the Huffington Post. In addition, my articles have appeared in publications such as ASCD Educational Leadership, Social Policy, and Language Magazine. I also host an online radio show on The BAM! Network.I was a community organizer for nineteen years prior to becoming a public school teacher.
