online resources
Organizations
NABE-National Association for Bilingual Education: Their mission is to advocate for Bilingual and English Language Learners and families in our nation. They work to create a multilingual and multicultural accepting society through support and promotion of policy, programs, pedagogy, research, and professional development. Overall, their goals consist of academic success, English proficiency, and respect for cultural and linguistic diversity. This website links you to everything going on around the country in terms of bilingual education, from current legislation to certification requirements and everything in between.
4Teachers-Educational Resources: This organization focuses on empowering students and teachers through the use of technology in the classroom. They offer innovative online resources available for teacher use at any time. Specifically for bilingual education and English Language Learners, this site provides links to numerous resources that can be used in linguistically diverse classrooms such as worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Arizona Department of Education: Within the main site, the Office of English Language Acquisition Services is committed to providing assistance to all of Arizona's school districts and charter schools that are charged with the educational needs of Arizona's rising English Language Learner population. This site provides up to date information on all of the legal issues concerning this practice, grants, training, assessments, and standards that teachers are expected to know, as well as various other resources.
ProEnglish-The Nation's Leading English Language Advocates:"ProEnglish is the nation's leading advocate of official English. We work through the courts and in the court of public opinion to defend English's
historic role as America's common, unifying language, and to persuade lawmakers
to adopt English as the official language at all levels of government". This online organization is interesting for bilingual education advocates because it gives insight into their opposition. In order to be the best supporter of English Language Learners, it is beneficial to understand the data from both sides.
historic role as America's common, unifying language, and to persuade lawmakers
to adopt English as the official language at all levels of government". This online organization is interesting for bilingual education advocates because it gives insight into their opposition. In order to be the best supporter of English Language Learners, it is beneficial to understand the data from both sides.
Blogs
Teach.com: This site offers two sources of recent information for educators, a Blog and Teach100. The blog is updated frequently with articles related to teachers, students, and schools. Teach 100 is a resource to help people in the field of education find the most relevant blogs from across the web. Their database is comprised of blogs that viewers recommend to the site, and is intended to reflect the quality of education blogs that are available. Along with these blogs, the website offers plenty of other information and resources for both current and future educators. An example of one of the blog posts related to bilingual education is provided below.
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Education Week: This blog contains articles written by veteran education reporter Lesli Maxwell. She has worked both inside and outside of major school systems, but now focuses her efforts on the educational policy surrounding English-Langauge Learners in U.S. schools. The content here can prove useful to teachers as the policies are constantly changing with the rapid increase of ELLs.
Edutopia: This is a compilation of blogs about English-Language Learners including tips, techniques, research, stories, and lessons. They are written by fellow teachers, authors, parents, and like-minded individuals.
ESL and Bilingual Teacher Professionals-Linkedin Group: This is a group located on the professional social networking site, LinkedIn. Anyone can apply for membership but it must be approved by the group administer. This group particularly focuses on ESL and bilingual teachers and professionals, and is an open forum to bring up and discuss important topics in the field of education.