Sooner or later, as schools move to implement the new Common Core and other
forthcoming standards, almost every teacher in the United States will face the challenge of …

The experience of Melissa, a recent graduate of a well-established teacher education
program, is all too familiar. When she completed her elementary teacher certification …

Despite current demographic imperatives, little is known about how teachers understand,
construct, and enact their professional identities in relation to teaching English learners …

From a sociocultural perspective, teacher identity is constructed in relation to others,
including other teachers and students. Drawing on positioning theory and the concept of …

In the previous volume of the Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and
Learning, Lumley and Brown (2005, p. 840) observe that qualitative methods have become …

Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms Page 1 Page 2 Teacher Preparation
for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms “. . . a critically important text that incorporates both …

This study investigates how teachers interact with immigrant-origin youth in school-based
contexts of reception that mediate youth's educational opportunities. One understudied …

Transitional bilingual education (TBE), the most common form of bilingual education in the
United States, is too often entrenched in a subtractive, English-dominant ideology. This …

The article examines 21 biliteracy teachers who studied and taught in schools through an
eight-week in-service professional development program with indigenous children in the …

Beginning teachers, who graduated from a credential program focused on preparing
advocates for equity and with attention to teaching English language learners (ELLs), had …