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The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners:
Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to
bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have
implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and
practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts
that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to
which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational
settings. In the following chapters, scholars and researchers
identify both (1) the current state of schooling for EBs, from
their perspective, and (2) the particular ways that policies,
pedagogies, and/or practices transform schooling as it currently
exists for EBs in discernible ways based on their scholarship and
research. Drawing on current and seminal research in fields
including second language acquisition, applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, contributing authors
draw on complementary theoretical, methodological, and
philosophical frameworks that attend to the social, cultural,
political, and ideological dimensions of being and becoming
bi/multilingual and bi/multiliterate in schools and in the United
States. In sum, we are deeply committed to asserting hope,
possibility, and potential to discussions and discourses about
bi/multilingual students. We value the urgency around improving the
conditions, experiences, and circumstances in which they are
learning languages and academic content. Our aim is to highlight
perspectives, conceptualizations, orientations, and ideologies that
disrupt and contest legacies of deficit thinking, linguistic
purism, language standardization, and racism and the racialization
of ethnolinguistic minorities.
Teacher effectiveness and licensure in the United States continue
to be scrutinized at the state and national levels. At present, 40
states plus the District of Columbia have adopted edTPA to inform
initial teacher licensure and/or certification decisions (American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, n.d.). edTPA is
designed to measure novice teachers' readiness to teach their
content area, with a focus on student learning and principles from
research and theory (SCALE, 2015). Composed of planning,
instruction, and assessment tasks, edTPA portfolios seek to provide
evidence of teacher candidate readiness in three areas: (1)
intended teaching, (2) enacted teaching, and (3) the impact of
teaching on student learning. Specifically, edTPA measures teacher
candidates' ability to: develop knowledge of subject matter,
content standards, and subject-specific pedagogy develop and apply
knowledge of varied students' needs consider research and theory
about how students learn reflect on and analyze evidence of the
effects of instruction on student learning (p. 1) Teacher
candidates create extensive portfolios that include written
commentaries explaining each task and video excerpts of a recorded
teaching event. Teacher candidates must submit evidence to show
their teaching prowess and pay $300, at present, to Pearson
Education for their portfolio to be evaluated by external
reviewers. In this volume, researchers share their experiences
working with edTPA in three areas of language learning: English
Language Arts, English to Speakers of Other Languages, and World
Languages. The volume provides empirical research in the areas of
multicultural perspectives, pedagogical practices, and edTPA
(in)compatibility. Findings are of interest to multiple
stakeholders such as teacher candidates, mentor teachers, teacher
preparation faculty members and program coordinators, and
administrators.
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