Leadership & Collaboration

6/8/19

Teacher leadership is not only defined by leading by example with distinguished teaching practices, but also sharing your knowledge with other teachers. In the article found here, Colorin’ Colorado describes how a general education teacher can best service his or her ELL students. I love how the article provides reasoning based on researched practices and standards as a resource to explain how to best meet the academic needs of a culturally and linguistically diverse student. The two most popular professional standards for ESL education come from the TESOL International Association and The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). When a teacher has best practices in the classroom along with the resources to share with other co-workers, they become not only a leader but an advocate for their CLD students.

Advocacy for CLD students may be difficult without a starting point. The link below provides a video along with links to articles, blogs, and other videos that will hopefully spark inspiration on your leadership journey to become not only a content teacher but also a language teacher.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/advocacy-ells-recommended-resources
How can you become a leader in best practices? Follow the TESOL standards for professional practice and share the document with other teachers at your school. Additionally, this would be a great resources to take to the school administration with advocating for a better educational plan for CLD students.
https://www.tesol.org/docs/default-source/books/2018-tesol-teacher-prep-standards-final.pdf?sfvrsn=6
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