Integrating Academic Language into Content Methodology: Supporting Math and Science Teacher Candidates to Meet Students’ Language Needs
Abstract
This article describes how a teacher-education program (TEP), whose mission is to improve schooling for linguistically diverse students, develops its’ teacher candidate’s critical dispositions and pedagogy related to academic-language (AL) development and how candidate performance on PACT can help TEPs better assess and improve how AL development can be embedded in content methodology courses. We discuss (a) how TEP worked to embed AL into the program course of study, (b) how teacher education faculty support AL in their content methodology courses, (c) the ways in which teacher candidates demonstrate knowledge of AL in two exemplary PACT Teaching Events, and (d) how TEP used data analysis of PACT for program improvement.
Reference
Freking, F., Park, J., & Francois, A. (2015). Integrating Academic Language into Content Methodology: Supporting Math and Science Teacher Candidates to Meet Students’ Language Needs. The New Educator, 11(1), 60-78.
Journal
New Educator
Analysis
Is this article part of a larger project or series of studies?
no
Does this study draw on a large, preexisting data set?
no
Research Approach
Geographic Setting
- University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Institutional Context
Certification Level
- Multiple levels of certification across programs
Programatic Focus
- interdisciplinary liteacy
Research Location Context
Preservice Participants
- Undergraduates (university based program)
Preservice Sample Size
153
Other Participant Data
Duration of Data Collection
Data Sources
- Survey
- Syllabi from University courses
- Teaching Events
Data Analysis Tools
Researcher Positionality
- inside (staying their own students)
- Inside (studying their own programs)
Research Questions
How is academic language embedded in the teacher education program?
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? No
How does the embedding of academic language (AL) in the teacher education program impact mathematics and science teacher performance on the AL rubrics in PACT?
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? Combination