This guide for pre-service teachers provides the means for documenting professional growth and development. Takona (educational technology and media, LeMoyne-Owen College) and Wilburn (early childhood education, LeMoyne-Owen College) explain the principles and practice of developing and using a port.

Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society. Despite their linguistic, cognitive, and social potential, many ELsâ€"who account for more than 9 percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in U.S. schoolsâ€"are struggling to meet the requirements for academic success, and their prospects for success in postsecondary education and in the workforce are jeopardized as a result. Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures examines how evidence based on research relevant to the development of DLLs/ELs from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related practices that can result in better educational outcomes. This report makes recommendations for policy, practice, and research and data collection focused on addressing the challenges in caring for and educating DLLs/ELs from birth to grade 12.

For pre-service teachers at three levels of education - early childhood, primary and secondary. Learning to teach is a difficult and complex activity. It is a process that requires pre-service teachers to chart uniquely personal pathways to becoming effective teachers, pathways that are littered with complex and demanding challenges that vary across time, place and person. This book offers pre-service teachers a novel way of addressing those challenges. It reveals what pre-service teachers need to do to transform their preconceived notions about teaching, acquired during twelve years as students in schools, into the practical theories that guide the classroom teaching of highly effective practitioners. It presents examples of the knowledge and theories of actual teachers, both pre-service and in-service; activities for explicating, reviewing and re-building knowledge and theories; and research-based guidelines to effect change while learning to teach. This book will contribute to making the task of learning to teach much more comprehensible to prospective teachers, while empowering students to take a more significant role in their own professional development.

With a focus on using portfolios to show one's work throughout a professional teaching career, this compact, easy-to-read volume provides prospective and current teachers both the foundation and the specifics to be successful in their portfolio building endeavors. A two-part organization serves a two-fold purpose: first, setting the stage for portfolio building for students and novice teachers who have yet to engage in this activity; and, second, presenting a menu of topics from which more experienced educators can choose to inform their creation of targeted, results-oriented portfolios for a variety of situations. New to this edition: Integrated technology portfolio assignments More portfolio examples, included at the end of the book Digital portfolio examples Case studies following several teachers throughout their careers Additional examples of reflections, analyses, rubrics, and statewide assessment systems These new features illustrate chapter concepts, and provide readers with quality examples and tools for reference.

In a book dedicated to those who endured Hurricane Katrina, and prefaced by a "Be all you can be" speech given to her campus's Student Government Association, Duhon-Sells (dean, College of Education, Southern U.) and fellow New Orleans' academics introduce children's voices collected by personnel who counseled children at an area middle school. In the context of the literature on the effects of disasters on communities and children, contributors --most affected themselves--assess the resulting challenges and responses of area schools (e.g., home distance learning, lessons plans incorporating the new demographics). The last chapter is devoted to healthcare aspects. Illustrations include memorable scenes from during and after the hurricanes. Not indexed.