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50 Years of ERIC
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Teaching English Language Learner Students: Professional Standards in Elementary Education in Central Region States. Issues & Answers. REL 2012-No. 122
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Apthorp, Helen; Wang, Xin; Ryan, Susan; Cicchinelli, Louis F. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2012
This report on professional teaching standards in the Central Region examines what K-8 general education teachers are expected to know and be able to do in order to teach English language learner students. It reviews the standards for coverage of six topics that the research literature suggests are important for improving student achievement. Key…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Standards
Teaching English Language Learner Students: Professional Standards in Elementary Education in Central Region States. Summary. Issues & Answers. REL 2012-No. 122
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Apthorp, Helen; Wang, Xin; Ryan, Susan; Cicchinelli, Louis F. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2012
This report on professional teaching standards in the Central Region examines what K-8 general education teachers are expected to know and be able to do in order to teach English language learner students. It reviews the standards for coverage of six topics that the research literature suggests are important for improving student achievement. Key…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Standards
Using Strategy Instruction to Help Struggling High Schoolers Understand What They Read. Issues and Answers. Rel 2007-No. 038
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Apthorp, Helen; Clark, Tedra – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2007
The evidence indicates that peer-assisted learning can have a substantively important positive effect on struggling high school students' reading comprehension. Reservations remain about attributing improved comprehension to peer-assisted learning because the students were not randomly assigned to the intervention in the one study that met…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Disabilities, Intentional Learning, Secondary School Teachers