Reviews for 120 Content Strategies for English Language Learners: Teaching for Academic Success in Secondary School

The average rating for 120 Content Strategies for English Language Learners: Teaching for Academic Success in Secondary School based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-11-27 00:00:00 Bradley Rempfer A well-meaning but increasingly proscriptive way for teachers to learn the need to include English Language Learners in their classrooms. The many, many strategies begin with a sensible warning from the author that reading her book alone "will not make you a better teacher; using the strategies in this book will" (p. xiv). As if new teachers don't have enough of the theory/practice divide in their lives! Most of the tips and trade secret she writes about are easy to follow and ingenious with a proper amount of awareness placed on how how instructions may be misunderstood. It is not until the final chapter that the ulterior motive for this book is revealed: the struggle to keep schools open in the post-NCLB United States has created a generation of keep-in-line teachers, who transfer their not rocking the boat paranoia onto their students, the most perceptive ones being ELL students having just fled oppression in another country, and would probably now be considering a hike across the Canadian border as the situation show no sign of getting better. Teachers I guess can have their Reissian book club, patting themselves on the back for following instructions to a T, but missing the bigger picture and their role in making education such a divisive, US or them place.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-05 00:00:00 Michael St. John Really practical. Really approachable. Definitely a book that I will turn to frequently when I need supports, tools, and ideas to support my ELs.