English Learners (ELs) are left behind in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The growing need for effective
critical pedagogical competence (CPC), critical technological
competence (CTC), and critical cross-cultural communicative
competence (C5) in teachers who serve ELs has become more evident
because of the increasing numbers of ELs and the global
socio-economic, and technological developments. C5, which
encompasses CTC and CPC, is defined in the book as the teacher's
ability to communicate effectively across cultures with diverse
individuals. An educator who possesses C5 is able to critically
understand the power relations and importance of the socio-economic
and political contexts in any human encounter and the ability to
make connections with real life to teach STEM content successfully.
The book provides teachers of ELs with a research-based framework
using classroom-tested Computer-assisted Language Learning and
Teaching (CALL) programs to empower themselves, through a practical
reflective self-professional development component, as they help
their students succeed academically in STEM. A critical pedagogical
and a genre-based communicative approach is used to achieve this
goal by teaching vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening,
and speaking. These key English language skills are given special
attention in the book while supporting ELs' native literacies and
STEM education. Throughout the book, the critical pedagogical
approach focuses on the socio-economic context of education and
makes connections between life in the classroom and real life.
Research on successful STEM schools indicates that cultivating
partnerships with industry, higher education, nonprofits, museums,
and research centers is crucial for engaging students in STEM
learning through internships, mentorships, interdisciplinary
project-based learning, and early college experiences. To cultivate
these partnerships and engage ELs in STEM requires educators to
possess a C5. From an interdisciplinary approach, the book's
argument is supported by insights gained from research in various
fields of inquiry. The book offers practical detailed lesson plans,
hands-on reflective inquiry activities, classroom vignettes,
rubrics and research-based criteria to evaluate practice,
strategies, and CALL programs and resources, that are either very
inexpensive or free of charge. The main goal of the book is to
develop students' English proficiency and help ELs maintain their
native literacy to succeed academically in STEM content areas.
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