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Instructional Effectiveness Of Non-Latino Professional Learning Communityteams Serving Latino Populations, Charlene E. Farnworth
Instructional Effectiveness Of Non-Latino Professional Learning Communityteams Serving Latino Populations, Charlene E. Farnworth
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As Latino English language learners (ELL) flood national classrooms their non-Latino, English-speaking teachers are faced with meeting the academic needs of limited English proficient students who hail from cultures unlike their own. This study investigated actions taken by teams of non-Latino, English-speaking educators of Latino (ELL) in order to be effective teachers of this minority population. Two premises prompted the search for what enabled non-Latino English speakers to be effective teachers of this minority population. The supposition was that the non-Latino teacher of ELLs must have: (a) familiarity with the language of the minority; and (b) a high affinity for …