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The Next Generation Science Standards,Common Core State Standards, and English Learners:
Using the SSTELLA Frameworkto Prepare Secondary Science Teachers
Sara TolbertUniversity of Arizona
Trish StoddartUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Edward G. LyonArizona State University
Jorge SolísUniversity of Texas, San Antonio
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Introduction
ThisarticlefocusesonacriticalissueinSTEMeducation:preparingnovicesecondaryschoolteacherstoprovideeffectivescienceinstructiontotherapidlygrowingpopulationofstudentsfromlanguageminoritygroupswhotraditionallyhavebeenunderservedinSTEMeducationandwhoareunderrepresentedinSTEMdegreesandcareers(NationalAcademyofSciences[NAS],2010;Oakes,Joseph,&Muir,2004).Thisissueisbothsalientandtimely.Withthecoincidenceoftheimplementa-
Sara Tolbert is an assistant professor of science education in the Depart-ment of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies of the College of Education at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Trish Stoddart is a professor in the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Edward G. Lyon is an assistant professor of science education in the Division of Teacher Preparation of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. Jorge Solís is an assistant professor in the Department of Bicultural and Bilingual Studies of the College of Education and Human Development of the University of Texas at San Antonio. Their e-mail addresses are [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]
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tionoftheCommonCoreStateStandards[CCSS](CommonCoreStateStandardsInitiative,2010)inEnglishlanguageartsandmathematicsandtherecentlyreleasedNextGenerationScienceStandards(NGSS;Achieve,2013),scienceteachersandteachereducatorsalikearefacedwithnewchallengesinregardtotheintegrationofauthenticscientificandliteracypracticesinscienceclassrooms.Moreover,theconvergenceoftheNGSSandtheCCSSaroundtheproductiveuseoflanguageinauthenticcontextsrepresentsamajorshiftintheroleoflanguageinallareasofinstruction (Lee,Quinn,&Valdés,2013).Wepresentan instructionalframework(SecondaryScienceTeachingwithEnglishLanguageandLit-eracyAcquisition[SSTELLA])thatreflectsthereciprocalandsynergisticrelationshipsamongscience,language,andliteracy.WearguethatthisintegratedmodelcanbeinfusedintosecondaryteacherpreparationinwaysthatleadtoimprovedteacherpracticeintermsofteachingEnglishlearners(ELs)andimprovedstudentachievementinscience.
EL Access to Rigorous Scienceand English Language Development
ELsarethefastestgrowingsectoroftheschool-agepopulation,yettheyalsohavetheleastaccesstothecoreacademiccurriculum(Genesee,Lindholm-Leary,Saunders,&Christian,2005;Janzen,2008;U.S.CensusBureau,2010),andtheirachievementinscienceandliteracyhaslaggedbehindthatofnativeEnglishspeakersforover30years(Lee&Luyxk,2006;NationalCenterforEducationStatistics[NCES],2011;Rodriguez,2010).Further,gapsinachievementincreasefromelementaryschooltosecondaryschool(NCES,2011).Thus,itisnotsurprisingthatELsareunderrepresentedinSTEMdegreesandcareersandarelesslikelytoperceivesciencesubjectsasrelevanttotheirlivesoutsideofschool(Buxton,2006).AtthecoreoftheproblemistheassumptionthatELsneedtobeproficientinEnglishbeforebeingintroducedtomorerigor-ous instruction inthecontentareas (Met,1994).This isproblematicbecauseitmaytakeaslongassevenyearsforthesestudentstoacquirealeveloflanguageproficiencycomparabletonativespeakers(Collier,1989;Cummins,1981;Hakuta,Butler,&Witt,2000).ELsfallbehindacademicallyiftheydonotlearnthecontentofthecurriculumastheyacquireEnglish.Thisproblemisexacerbatedbytheeliminationofspe-cializedshelteredandbilingualinstructionprogramsdesignedtoprovideELswithaccesstocontentinstructioninthosestateswiththehighestpopulationsofELs(Markos,2012).Therefore,ELsaremainstreamedviaa“sinkorswim”approach,astheyareplacedinclassrooms,includingscienceclassrooms(Business-HigherEducationForum[BHEF],2006;
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CaliforniaCouncilonScienceandTechnology[CCST],2007;Oakesetal.,2004),withteacherswhohavelimitedabilitiestoaddresstheirneedsincontentinstruction(Lucas&Grinberg,2008;Markos,2012). Asignificantbodyofresearchonsecond-languageacquisitionhasdemonstratedthatcontextualized,content-basedinstructioninstudents’secondlanguagecanenhancethelanguageproficiencyofEnglishlearn-erswithnodetrimenttotheiracademiclearning(Cummins,1981;Met,1994;Stoddart,Solís,Tolbert,&Bravo,2010;Thomas&Collier,2012).Thesubjectmattercontentprovidesameaningfulcontextforthelearn-ingof languagestructureand functions,andthe languageprocessesprovidethemediumforanalysisandcommunicationofsubjectmatterknowledge.Inquiryscience,therefore,isanexcellentcontextforlearn-inglanguageandliteracy. IntegratingtheteachingofsciencecontentwiththedevelopmentofEnglishlanguageandliteracythroughcontextualizedscienceinquiryhasbeenconsistentlyshowntoincreaseELs’achievementinbothsci-enceandinthedevelopmentofacademiclanguageandliteracy(Bravo&Garcia,2004;Echevarria,Vogt,&Short,2012;Lee,Maerten-Rivera,Penfield,LeRoy,&Secada,2008;Rivet&Krajcik,2008;Rosebery&War-ren,2008;Stoddart,2005;Stoddart,Pinal,Latzke,&Canaday,2002).TheseadvancesintheknowledgebaseonteachingscienceandEnglishlanguageandliteracytoELsareconsonantwiththediscourseaboutthedevelopmentofNGSS,aswellastheCCSSforEnglishLanguageArts(ELA).TheELAreadingandwritingstandardsforliteracyinscienceandtechnicalsubjectsrequirethatstudentsengagewithtechnical(e.g.,labreports,scientificresearcharticles)andnon-technical(e.g.,news-paperarticles,letterstotheeditor)textsthataredisciplinespecificbywritingarguments,translatingwritteninformationintovisualforms(e.g.,tables,graphs),andcomparing/contrastingfindingspresentedinvarioussources. Similarly, the NGSS represents a major shift from the focus ofscientificliteracyasdecontextualizedcontentandprocessknowledgetowardscientificliteracyastheproductiveandintegrateduseofsci-ence languagewithsciencecontentwhilesimulatingwhatscientistsdo(e.g.,planinvestigations,developmodels,arguefromevidence).TheNGSS,basedupontheNationalResearchCouncil(NRC;2012)report,A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas,identifiescorescienceideasandcross-cuttingthemesthatstudentscouldlearninmorerigorousandrelevantwaysastheyprogressthroughtheirK-12scienceeducation (NRC,2012).Further,theScienceFrameworkprovidesadescriptionofeightscientificandengineeringpracticesthatpromotenotonlyinvestigativecompetence,
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suchasaskingquestions,planninginvestigations,andanalyzingdata,butalsorepresentationalthinkingthroughtheuseofmodelsandmath-ematicalrelationships.Fourofthesescienceandengineeringpracticesareparticularlylanguageintensive:developingandusingmodels;con-structingexplanations(science)anddesigningsolutions(engineering);arguingfromevidence;andobtaining,evaluating,andcommunicatinginformation(Leeetal.,2013). Therefore,akeyissueremains.Fewmodelsofscienceteachinghavebeenarticulatedintermsofhowpreservicesecondaryscienceteacherscanlearnto(a)promoteauthenticscientificdiscoursepractices(Shaw,Lyon, Mosqueda, Stoddart, & Menon, 2013; Windschitl, Thompson,Braaten,&Stroupe,2012),and(b)engagestudentsinrigorous,contex-tualizedlearningexperiencesinlinguisticallydiversescienceclassrooms(Rodriguez,2010;Tolbert,2013).Secondaryscienceteachersgenerallyconsiderthemselvestobeteachersofcontentratherthanteachersoflanguage,despitethefactthatscientificargumentation,reasoning,andcommunicationrequireamultitudeofspecializedwrittenandoralliteracypractices(Kelly,2007;Lemke,1990;Rodriguez,2010).TheprominentfocusofNGSSonproductivelanguageuseviatheidentificationoflan-guage-intensivescienceandengineeringpracticeshasopenedupnewpossibilitiesforallscienceteacherstoconsidertheroleoflanguageinscienceandengineering instruction.Thischangerepresentsamajorshiftinthewayscienceteacherswillbeaskedtoteachinsecondaryclassrooms,particularlyinscienceclassroomswithELs.
Inadequate Science Teacher Preparation
In2010,acombinedreportoftheNationalAcademyoftheSciences,NationalAcademyofEngineering,andtheInstituteofMedicineproposedthatimprovingthepreparationofSTEMteachersinhigh-needsecondaryschoolswithlargenumbersofminoritystudentswasthekeytoincreasingtheirsuccessfulparticipationinSTEMcareersanddegreeprogramsandshouldbeanationalpriority(NAS,2010).However,despitetheseverityandpersistenceoftheachievementgapbetweenmainstreamstudentsandELs,fewteachersreceiveeducationinhowtoteachSTEMsubjectstostudentsforwhomEnglishisnottheirfirstlanguage(Ballantyne,Sanderman,&Levy,2008;Darling-Hammond,2006;Gándara,Maxwell-Jolly,&Driscoll,2005).Itisnotsurprising,therefore,thatfewnoviceorexperiencedteachersfeelpreparedtoteachELs(CaliforniaLegislativeAnalyst’sOffice,2007-2008;Gándaraetal.,2005;NCES,2001)andthatELsarethegroupleastlikelytohaveaqualifiedorexperiencedmathorscienceteacher(BHEF,2006;CCST,2007).Eachyear,thousandsof
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newteachersentertheprofessionfeelingunderpreparedtoteachthisrapidlygrowingstudentpopulation(Ballantyneetal.,2008). ThechallengeforteachereducatorsistoprepareteacherstoteachELsbyintegratingrigorousscienceinstructionwiththedevelopmentof English language and literacy. However, most teacher educationprogramsdonotprovidesuchpreparation.Coursesonsubjectmatterteaching typically give little attention to the importance of valuingandincorporatingthelinguisticneedsandculturalexperiencesofthestudentswhoarebeingserved(Godley,Sweetland,Wheeler,Minnici,&Carpenter,2005;Trent,Kea,&Oh,2008).Issuesrelatedtoculturalandlinguisticdiversity,whentaught,arepresentedinseparatecoursesthatoftenfocusonsocialconditionsandnotondiscipline-specificpedagogy(Trentetal.,2008).Whatisneededisthedevelopmentofteachereduca-tionprogramsthatprovideexplicitinstruction,modeling,andcoachingof integratedpedagogy,whichshowpreserviceteachersthehowandwhyofintegratingthedevelopmentofacademiclanguageandliteracyintotheteachingofrigoroussciencecontent.
From Elementary to SecondaryScience Teacher Preparation for ELs
Priorresearchonprofessionaldevelopmentwithexperiencedandpreserviceteachershasdemonstratedthatteacherscanbepreparedtouseanintegratedpedagogyandthatteachers’useofthisapproachim-provestheachievementofELsinscience,language,andliteracy(Bravo&Garcia,2004;Bunch,2013;Ku,Bravo,&Garcia,2004;Ku,Garcia,&Corkins,2005;Leeetal.,2008;Shawetal.,2013;Stoddart,2005,2013;Stoddart&Mosqueda,inpress).Forexample,inourpreviousresearchproject,Effective Science Teaching for English Language Learners(ES-TELL),werestructuredelementarysciencemethodscoursesatthreedifferentuniversitysites(Stoddartetal.,2010).Thecoreinterventionfocusedonengagingnoviceelementaryteachersinpersonallearningexperiencesofsciencethroughintegratedsciencecontent/sciencemeth-odslessons.ThepreserviceteachersthenusedanESTELLlessonplantemplatetodesignandimplementsciencelessonsduringtheirstudentteaching in classroomswithELsand received coachingandsupportfromanESTELL-trainedmentorteacher.WefoundthattheESTELLintervention(a)moreeffectivelypreparedelementarystudentteacherstouseintegratedscience-languagepedagogywithELsascomparedtoa control groupof student teachers ina“businessasusual” teachereducationprogram(Stoddart,Bravo,Solís,&Mosqueda,2011;Stoddart,Bravo,Solís,Stevens,&VegadeJesus,2009);and(b)improvedELs’sci-
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encelearning,includingsciencewriting,intheclassroomsofESTELLfirst-yearteachersatthesamerateasforthenon-ELs(Shawetal.,2013;Stoddart,2013;Stoddart&Mosqueda,inpress).WebuiltuponthisresearchtodevelopaframeworkforpreparingsecondaryscienceteacherstoteachELs.
Differences between Elementary and Secondary ELs Asthecontentgetsmorespecializedandadvancedinthetransitionfromelementarytosecondaryschool,thereisevenmoreofaneedfortheconceptualizationandoperationalizationofEnglishlanguagesup-portandopportunitiesfordevelopmentforELstobeembeddedinthecontentareasthemselves(Leeetal.,2013).Themajortransitionforolderschool-agechildrenwhoareELsisthetransitiontovariedacademicgenresastheymovethroughtheschoolsystem(Bunch,2013;Lucas&Grinberg,2008).Whilethisliteracytransitionispartofthesecondaryschoolexperience,itisasignificantlygreaterchallengeforsecondaryELstoengagewithvariedtextsthatincludetheuseoftechnicallow-frequency,content-basedvocabularyandwritingforspecialpurposeswhilestillacquiringEnglishlanguageproficiency.Recognizingthedif-ferentacademictrajectoriesofthesestudentsisimportantindesigningappropriateeducationalsupportandteachertraining.Inthisregard,infusingliteracyandlanguageinstructionacrosscontent-areasubjectswould address the need to explicitly teach academic language tasksauthentictoeachacademicdiscipline(Bunch,2013;Janzen,2008).Inaddition,while elementary school teachers expect to teach languageandliteracy,secondaryschoolteachersdonot(Stoddartetal.,2002).Our current project, based on a framework described next, engagessecondarypreserviceteachersinanin-depthanalysisoftheacademiclanguageandliteracydemandsofsecondaryscienceinstructionandthespecificstrategiesneededtoscaffoldandcontextualizeacademicsciencelanguage,literacy,anddiscourse.
The SSTELLA Framework:Synergistic and Reciprocal Relationship
between Language and Science for Secondary Teachers
TheSSTELLAframeworkprovidesamuch-neededresponseinsci-enceeducationtothemanychallengesthatsecondaryschoolELsface.SSTELLAisaframeworkforaddressinginadequateteachercapacityforimprovingELs’scienceachievementbyadvancingresearch-basedinstructional practices in the classroom.August and Hakuta (1997)reportedthatextendingexistingtheoriesandmethodologiesofcontent
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area learningandsecond-language literacyare thehighestresearchprioritiesforimprovingtheschoolingforlanguage-minoritychildrenastheymoveacrossthecurriculum.OnereasoncitedisthatattentiontolanguageinstructionhasoftenbeenforegroundedovercontentlearningforELs(August&Hakuta,1997;Echevarriaetal.,2011). SSTELLAreflectsprinciplesfromtheScienceFrameworkandisdesignedtoprepareteacherstoeffectivelyintegratescience,language,andliteracyinstructionforELsbypromotingtheproductiveuseofsci-encelanguageinauthenticcontexts,whereby“studentsaresupportedinusingmultipleresourcesandstrategiesforlearningscienceandde-velopingEnglish”(Leeetal.,2013,p.229).TheSSTELLAframeworkisrepresentedvisuallyinFigure1tohighlighttherelationshipsamongthefourSSTELLApracticesandanticipatedstudentlearningoutcomes. Theframeworkviewscontextualizedscienceactivity(the“doorway”)asthegatewaythroughwhichELscancometounderstandrelationshipsbetweenschoolsciencelearningandtheirlivedexperiencesoutsideofschools.Teacherspromotescientificsense-making,scientificdiscourse,andEnglishlanguageandliteracydevelopmentthroughthesecontextu-alizedlearningexperiences.Sciencecontentandlanguagethenintersectasstudents,forexample,constructoralandwrittenexplanationsandengageinargumentfromevidence(Cheuk,2012;Leeetal.,2013),two
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practicesthatechoCCSSforEnglishLanguageArts.Thus,therela-tionshipbetweensciencelearningandEnglishlanguageandliteracydevelopmentcanbeviewedasreciprocalandsynergistic.Throughthecontextualized and authentic use of language in scientific practices,studentsdevelopandpracticecomplexlanguageformsandfunctions.Simultaneously,throughtheuseoflanguagefunctionssuchasexplana-tionsandargumentsinscienceinvestigations,studentsmakesenseofabstractcorescienceideasandenhancetheirconceptualunderstandingaswellasunderstandingofthenatureofscience(Driver,Newton,&Osborne,2000;Stoddartetal.,2002,2010). The four interrelated SSTELLA practices mediate two primarystudentlearningoutcomes.First,studentsusecorescienceideas(e.g.,thecycleofmatterandenergytransferinecosystems)whileengaginginauthenticscientificpracticesandtexts.Theymaybecarryingoutandreportingonaninvestigationrelatedtoecosystemsorusingdouble-entryjournals(Gomezetal.,2010)asareading-to-learnstrategyinanonlinearticlethatprovidesadescriptionoftheusesofalternativeenergies.Second,studentswillproductivelyuselanguagewhileengaginginau-thenticscientificpracticesandtexts:Insteadofjustpayingattentiontothescience“content”whilecarryingoutaninvestigationandreadinganonlinearticle,thestudentsalsocommunicateawell-structuredexplana-tionfortheirinvestigationandidentify,withsupportingevidence,thetoneandprimaryaudienceoftheonlinearticle.
SSTELLA Instructional Practices Scientific sense-making through scientific/engineering practices.Scientificsense-makingreferstohowstudentsnegotiateeverydayandscientificwaysofknowing,whiledevelopingincreasedawarenessofthenatureandpracticesofscienceviaengagementinscientific/engineeringpractices.Scientificsense-makingisenhancedwhenteachersmakeexplicittostudentswhattheyaretolearn(i.e.,a“bigidea”),makeconnectionsbetweenthebigideaandclassroomactivityandpriorknowledgeorex-periences(August&Hakuta,1997;Kelly,2007;Rivet&Krajcik,2008),andmakestudentsawareofhowtheywilldemonstratemasteryofthebigidea(i.e.,thelearningobjective;Wiggins&McTighe,1998).Studentscanbetterrelatetothebigideawhenitiscouchedwithinapuzzlingquestion,ill-definedproblem,and/ormodel-basedinquiry(e.g.,studentdevelopment,refinement,and/oruseofmodels;NRC,2012;Passmore&Stewart,2002;Windschitletal.,2012).ExpectationsandclassroomrigorforELsaremaintainedthroughdeliberateandsustainedscaffolding(Walqui&vanLier,2010),whichmayincludemodelingofinstruction,graphicorganiz-ers,visualrepresentations,realia,anduseoftechnology.
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Scientific discourse through scientific/engineering practices.Devel-opingacoherentunderstandingofsciencerequiresthatstudentslearnhowscienceknowledgeisconstructed,presented,andsharedthroughspecializedscientificoralandwrittenlanguageforms,i.e.,thediscourseofscience(Graham&Perin,2007;Kelly,2007;Pearson,Moje,&Greenleaf,2010;Snow,2010;Veel,1997).Thiscanoccurthroughstudents’useofscientific/engineeringpractices,wherebystudentsareexposedtoandencouragedtoengagewithdisciplinaryspecificusesoflanguage(e.g.,scientificdiscourse),suchascommunicatingscientificexplanationsandarguments, andengineering solutions.These formsof oraldiscoursepromoteconceptualunderstanding,investigativecompetence,andanunderstandingoftheepistemologyandsocialnatureofscience(Driveretal.,2000).Scientificdiscourseis,initself,asocialandcollaborativepracticethatcanhelpstudentsmakesenseofbothscienceconceptsanddeveloplanguage(Kelly,2007;Lemke,1990).
English language and literacy development.Scientificgenresarecharacterizedbydenseclauses,technicalandgeneralacademicvocabu-lary,andtheuseofthepassivevoice(Pearsonetal.,2010;Snow,2010).Tobecomeindependentconsumersandproducersofscienceknowledge,studentsneedtobeabletobothcomprehendandusescientificdiscourses,withattentionnotonlytotechnicalsciencevocabularybutalsotogeneralacademicwordsandEnglishlanguagestructurescommonlyusedinsci-ence(August,Carlo,Dressler,&Snow,2005;Snow,2010).Insecondaryschools,however,allstudents,particularlyELs,faceboth(a)anincreaseincomplexityoflanguagegenresandregistersassociatedwithdisciplin-aryreading,writing,speaking,andlistening(Scarcella,2003);and(b)adecreaseinauthenticcontentlearningopportunities(Bruna&Gomez,2008).Englishlearnerscanengageinauthenticliteracypracticesthatpromotebothcontentlearning(e.g.,corescienceideas)andlanguageandliteracydevelopment(Krajcik&Sutherland,2010;Pearsonetal.,2010).Targetedcomprehension,composition,andvocabularydevelop-mentstrategiescansupportELsinunderstandingandcommunicatingcomplexscienceconcepts(Rodriguez,2010).Someofthesestrategiesincludereciprocalteaching(Palinscar&Brown,1984),annotationandsummarization(Gomezetal.,2010),andinteractivesciencenotebooksandwritingheuristicsaswellasnon-traditionalwritingactivities(e.g.,blogentries,letters;Hand,Prain,Lawrence,&Yore,1999;McDermott,2010;Wallace,Hand,&Prain,2004;Weiss-Magasic,2012)andafocusonprocess-orientedwritingskills(Graham&Perin,2007;Olsonetal.,2010).Vocabularydevelopmentcanbesupportedthroughtheuseofwordwalls,facilitatingwordconsciousness/analysis,andprovidingrepeated
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exposuretoandmultipleopportunitiestousenewwords(Augustetal.,2005).
Contextualized Science Activity.Finally,akeyaspectofsupportingELsinlearningacademiccontentistheincorporationoftheirculturalandlinguisticbackgroundintoclassroomlearningexperiences;theseexperiencesshouldbenotonlyrigorousbutalsomeaningfulandrel-evant.Teachers and schools often have positioned underserved ELsasdeficientandinneedofremediationpriortoengaginginrigorouscoursework,whichessentiallysetsstudentsupforfailurebeforetheyevenstepfootintoasecondaryscienceclassroom(Oakesetal.,2004).Teachers must understand that ELs are quite capable of grapplingwithauthenticandcontextualizedreal-worldproblemsthatenhancebothlanguagedevelopmentandconceptualunderstandings,andtheyshouldprovideopportunitiesforthemtodoso(Lee&Luykx,2006;Leeetal.,2013;Moll,Amanti,Neff,&Gonzalez,1992;Rosebery&Warren,2008).Byengagingstudentsinscienceinvestigationsandengineeringdesignproblemsinauthentic,real-worldproblems,teacherscanlever-agestudents’fundsofknowledgefromtheirhomesandcommunities,thelocalphysical(e.g.,schoolbuilding,communitycenter)orecologicalenvironment(e.g.,localstream,watershedissues),and/orsocio-scien-tificissues(e.g.,stemcellresearch,sustainabilityscience)asawaytoengageELsinmeaningfulandrigoroussciencelearningexperiences(Rivet&Krajcik,2008;Rosebery&Warren,2008).Tosummarize,thefour interrelated instructional practices just described highlight thereciprocalandsynergistic relationshipbetweenscience learningandEnglishlanguageandliteracydevelopment.Thechallengeforteachereducatorsistoinfusethesepracticesintoteachereducationprogramsinwaysthatsupportsecondarysciencepreserviceteachersinlearninghowtoeffectivelyteachsciencetoallstudents,includingELs.
Infusing SSTELLA into Secondary Teacher Preparation
Inthissection,wedescribehowSSTELLAcanbeinfusedproductivelyintosecondaryscienceteacherpreparation.Anextensivebodyofliteraturehasdemonstratedthatthedevelopmentofexpertiseinnoviceteachers,inbothelementaryandsecondaryteacherpreparation,isfacilitatedbyengagingtheminobservation,analysis,andexperiencewithexplicitmodelsoftheinstructionalapproachesthattheyarebeingpreparedtoutilize(Abell&Cennamo,2004;Rothetal.,2011)aswellasbyprovid-ingthemwithopportunitiestopracticeinstructionalapproaches,withintensivefeedback,coaching,andsupport,withthestudentpopulation
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whomtheyarebeingpreparedtoteach(Loucks-Horsley,Hewson,Love,&Styles,1998;Speck&Knipe,2001).Thisrequiresrestructuringofthepedagogicalmodeloftheteachereducationcourseworkbydevelopingcur-riculumthatengagesstudentteacherswithexplicitmodelsofinstructionalpracticeandestablishingcoherenceamongthevariouscomponentsoftheteachereducationprogram:coursework,practicum,andsupervision(Stoddart,2013).Thefirststepistodevelopexplicitinstructionalexem-plarsofintegratedpracticeinsecondaryschoolclassroomsthatexplainthehowandthewhytostudentteachersandtoarticulatethesemodelsintoteachereducationcurriculummaterialsandpractice. Elementaryandsecondaryteachers,however,alsocomewithdiffer-entsubjectmatterbackgroundsandexpectationsofwhattheywillbeteaching.ThepreservicesecondaryteachersinourcurrentSSTELLAproject all have majors in the science subject they are preparing toteach:Biology,Chemistry,Physics,orEarth/EnvironmentalSciences.Incontrast,prospectiveelementaryschoolteacherstypicallyhavelesssciencecontentpreparation.OurpreviousNationalScienceFoundation(NSF)elementaryschoolscienceteacherpreparationproject(ESTELL)includeda strongemphasisonpersonal learningof content throughextensivecontentlearningexperiencesthroughESTELLpedagogy.InSSTELLA,theemphasisisonusingintegratedinstructionalapproachestoexplicitlyscaffoldlanguagelearningforspecificconceptlearninggoalsrelatedtoNGSS.
Explicit Exemplar of the SSTELLA Integrated Framework ThevignettebelowwasgeneratedbySSTELLAprojectmembers(theauthorsandJoanneCouling,achemistryteacher,SSTELLAgraduate,andstudentresearcher)todemonstratehowasecondaryscienceteachercouldintegratetheSSTELLApracticesintoathermochemistrylesson.ThevignetteisfollowedbycommentaryonhowthelessonexemplifiesspecificelementsofSSTELLAinstructionalpractices.Wealsodescribehowthevignette,whichmodelsSSTELLApractices,cantakeforminmultipleteachereducationcomponents:videocases,instructormodeledunits,andpreserviceteacher-developedand-implementedlessons. Ms.Cisteachingathermochemistrylessonfortenthandeleventh-gradestudents,includingcurrentandre-designatedELswithvariedlevelsofEnglishlanguageproficiency.ThelessonisamidpointlessonintheEnergytopicandbuildsonphysicalpropertiesofmattertocre-ateaheating/coolingcurvemodelforwaterthatstudentswilllateruseforenergycalculationstoapplythemathematicalequationq=mc∆T.Inpartialpreparationforthatlesson,students,duringthislesson,will“de-velopanduseamodelbasedonevidencetoillustratetherelationships
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betweencomponentsofasystem”(seeHS-PS3-2,HS-PS3-5,ScienceandEngineeringPractices,NGSS). Ms.Cbeginsbyintroducingthebigidea,“Howisenergytrans-ferredandconserved?”Herlessontodayispartofaseriesoflessonsthatwillhelpstudentsdevelopanunderstandingthatthemacroscopicscaleofenergycanbeaccountedforas“motionsofparticlesorenergyassociated with the configuration of particles,” based on the NGSSDisciplinary Core Idea that“energy is aquantitativeproperty of asystemthatdependson themotionand interactionsofmatterandradiationwithinthatsystemandthatthetotalchangeofenergyinanysystemisalwaysequaltothetotalenergytransferredintooroutofthesystem”(PS3.A).Toorientherstudentstowardthislearninggoal,Ms.Ccommunicatesthebigideaatthestartofthelessonbytellingstudentsthattheywillbelookingattherelationshipbetweenenergyandphasechangesforwater.Ms.Cinitiatessmallgroupdiscussionsinwhichstudentsthink-pair-share(Gunther,Estes,&Schwab,1999)about water in different phases in everyday life. Students suggestswimming,waterparks,ice-skating,drivingonicyroads,gaseouswatermoleculesintheair,andusingsteaminthehome.Ms.Cbuildsonthelattersuggestionasabridgetotheremainderofthelesson. Ms.CusesadocumentcameratoprovidevisualsthatsupportELs’understandingofthedrivingquestion.Shedisplaysthephrase,“Useofsteaminthehome”andaphotoofsteamcomingupfromateapot.Sheasksforstudentsuggestions,andtheyoffer“cookingvegetables”and“ironing.”Onestudentstates,“Mymomonceusedsteamtocleanastainonthecarpet.”Ms.Crecordsthesesuggestions,thenshowsstudentsacontaineroficecubes:“Let’ssayIneedsomesteamtocleanmycarpet,butallIhaveisthisice.How could I turn this into steam?”Studentsof-fer:“heatit”and“putitinapotofboilingwater.”Ms.Cprobesfurther:“Howlongwouldittake?”and“WhatfactorsmightIneedtoconsider?”ShemakessurethatJuan,anEL,participates(e.g.,“Juan,whatcouldyouaddtowhatCindyhasjustsaid?”)andencouragesstudentstobuildoneachother’sideasusinganoptionalsentenceframeasacontextuallanguagesupportforELs,ifneeded(e.g.,Ithinkthat...because...).Thesharedperspectivesleadstudentstogenerate,collectively,ahy-pothesizedvisualmodel(Figure2)ofthephasechangesofwaterwhenenergyisapplied. Ms.Crefinestheproblem:“Wereallywanttoknowtherelation-shipbetweenenergyandtemperatureinthesephasechanges.Istherelationshiplinear?”Shewritesthequestionwiththedoc-u-camandinvitesanotherELinherclasstowritethequestioninSpanish:“¿Cuál es la relación entre la energía y la temperatura, es la relación lineal?”
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Studentsrecordbothversionsintheirsciencenotebook.Cause-and-ef-fectrelationshipsareanimportantNGSSCross-Cutting Concept(HS.PS.35).Exploringphasechangeswithstudentshelpsthemtodevelopanunderstandingofthephysicalpropertiesofwater.Studentsoftenconsiderheatandtemperaturetobeanalogous;thislessonhelpstodistinguishheatasaformofenergyandtemperatureasamethodofmeasuringtheeffectsofchangingenergy.Discoveryofthelinear/non-linearrelationshiplinkstoandbuildsonintermolecularforcesand,thus,alsobuildsonthebigideaofthattopic.Thelessoncontinueswithstudents’workingwithwater,ice,aheatingdevice,andathermometerinheterogeneousandpurposefullygroupedteams(byELproficiencylevelandclassgrade)totestthemodel.Somestudentsobservetheiriceatatemperaturelowerthan0˚C.Whilewalkingaroundtheclass,Ms.Cencouragesstudentsinonegrouptothinkaboutwhatthismeansforthevisualmodeltheyhavecreated.Thestudentsrecognizetheneedtorelocatethepositionofthefirstbeakerinthediagram.Additionalobservationsleadstudentstonoticethattheirthermometerstaysat0˚Cwhiletheicemelts. Attheendoftheactivity,Ms.CagaindisplaysanoptionalsentenceframetohelpsupportELstoconstructargumentsfromtheevidence:“Iclaimthatthediagramshouldreallylooklike....because...”Sheremindsstudentsthattheyarenotrequiredtousethesentenceframe
Figure2Drawing of how energy is transferred and conserved.
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butthattheymustuseevidencefromtheirinvestigationtosupportanychangestothediagramthattheclassconstructedatthebeginningofthelesson.Shealsoremindsstudentsthatscientistsconstructknowledgebymakingclaimsthattheysupportwithevidence.TofurthersupportELs’newvocabularydevelopment,Ms.Calso refersstudents to theclass-generatedsciencewordwallandthe“studentfriendly”definitionsofclaimsandevidencepreviouslyrecordedintheirsciencenotebooks.Movingaroundtheclassroom,sheasksstudentstosharewhattheyhavewrittenandprovidesfeedbackontheirwriting. Finally,Ms.Cusesacooperativestructure,e.g.,Numbered-Heads-Together(Kagan&Kagan,2009),toensureequitableparticipationandindividualaccountabilityasstudentgroupssharetheirexplanationstothewholeclass,whichleadstoadiscussionabouthowtoamendtheinitialheating/coolingcurvediagram.AsMs.Cdrawstherevisedmodeltomatchthemodelthestudentshavedeveloped(Figure3),sheremindsstudentsthatmodelsareusefulforexplanationandfordevelopingun-derstandingandthattheycanberevised.Shethenreturnstotheques-tionoftheenergyandtemperaturerelationshipduringphasechangesandinvitesstudentstoshareexperiencesoutsidetheclassroomwheretheycanapplytheirmodeltotheirowneverydayexperiences.Ms.Ciscarefultoincorporateintothediscussionthesuggestionsthatstudentsmadeinthebeginning(e.g.,waterparks, ice-skating).Inafollow-uplesson,studentswilluseReciprocalReading(Palinscar&Brown,1984),acollaborativereading-to-learnstrategythathasbeendemonstratedtohelpstudentsdevelopmoreactivecomprehensionofcomplextext.
Figure3Drawing of heating curve for water.
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Usingthisstrategy,studentsworkingroupstoreadscientificstudiesofrelatedtopics(e.g.,howwaterisusedtoabsorbheatfromnuclearreactors).Additionally,eachyear,Ms.Ctakesherstudentstoalocal(within45miles)hotspringssite,whereshehelpsstudentsapplytheirknowledgeaboutthermochemistrytoareal-world,localcontext.
Scientific sense-making through scientific/engineering practices.Intheabovevignette,Ms.Chelpsstudentsmakesenseofanaturalphenomenonthroughexplicitcommunicationandreflectionofa“bigidea,”drivenbyanill-definedproblem:“HowcouldIturnthis[ice]intosteam?”Ill-definedproblemsinvolvemorethanopen-endedquestions;beyondtheirhavingmorethanonerightanswer,theyareconstrainedintermsofinformationpresentedandtheassumptionsthatneedtobemade(Fortus,2008).Inthiscase,studentsdonothaveinformationaboutwhattoolstouseorprinciplestodrawonwhileexplaining;thereisnoprescribedpathfromproblemtosolution.Often,ill-definedproblemsconnectwithsomereal-worldproblemorcontroversialissuethatalsocouldhaveframedthelesson.Thecollaborativegenerationofapartialmodel(firstheating/coolingdiagram),followedbythetestingandre-finingofthemodel,pressesstudentengagementinscientificpractices,usingcomplexEnglishlanguagefunctions.Attheendofthelesson,Ms.Cprovidesopportunitiesforstudentstoreflectonhowtheirconceptionshavechanged,withattentiontothebigidea,aswellashowtheirworkisrepresentativeoftheworkof“doingscience”inauthenticcontexts.
Scientific discourse through scientific/engineering practices.Ratherthangivingclosedevaluationstostudentresponses(Cazden,1988),Ms.Cfacilitatesproductivestudenttalkbyelicitingstudentconceptionsandhypothesesthroughoutthelesson(e.g.,howtoturniceintosteam)andactivatingcollaborativetalkamongallstudents,includingtheELs(via,e.g.,mixedgroups,cleargroundrules,waittime),whichincreasesstudentaccesstosciencediscourseandconcepts.Studentsdevelopsci-entificdiscoursethroughdiscussionswithpeersandtheteacherthatpromotearguingfromevidence(e.g.,justifyingwhytheyagree/disagreewithapeer,supportingclaimswithevidencefromtheinvestigation).
English language and literacy development.Individuallyandthroughsmallgroups,Ms.Cpressesstudentstoexplainanddiscuss/critiquetheirmodelsaswellastoproduceanauthenticscientifictext.Shescaffoldsstudents’languageandliteracydevelopmentthroughstrategiessuchasusingsentenceframes,havingstudentswriteinsciencenotebooks,drawinguponstudents’proficiencylevels(e.g.,L1),andgivingtargetedfeedback(Hanauer,2006;Lemke,1990).Sentenceframesalsoareatype
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of talk that facilitatesstudentelaborationoneachother’s responses(Maata,Dobb,&Ostlund,2005).Ms.Cprovidesmultipleopportunitiesforstudentstousegeneralacademicandcontent-specificvocabulary,e.g.,throughdiscussionsandwrittenproductsthatemphasizecommonwords, such as “intermolecular forces,” “energy,” “claim,” “evidence,”“cause,”and“effect.”Shedrawsattentiontotheeverydayusesofscientificwordssuchas“heat,”“energy,”and“temperature”andhowtheeverydayusesofwordsareoftendistinctfromscientificdefinitions.Thefocusonrelationshipsalsohelpsstudentstobetterunderstandtheconnectionsbetweenwords.
Contextualized science activity. Ms. C contextualizes the scienceactivitybymakingconnectionstostudents’observationsofsteamintheirhomes,whichsheusedtoextendthelessonbydrawingonaspecificexperience(usingsteamtocleanthecarpet).Sheclosesthelessonbyonceagaininvitingstudentstosharewaysinwhichtheycouldapplywhattheyhavelearned,i.e.,leveragetheirexperiencesasameanstolearncomplexsciencecontent(Molletal.,1992;Rosebery&Warren,2008).Shealsoprovidesopportunitiesthroughoutthelessonforstudentstousetheirownsense-makingandlanguageprocessesasresourcesforscience learning in school (Lemke, 1990; Rosebery &Warren, 2008).Finally,shehelpsstudentstoapplytheirknowledgetoalocalcontextduringafuturetriptoapopularhotspringssite.
Relevant Program Components for SSTELLA Framework
WeseetheSSTELLAframework,instantiatedinthevignetteabove,asbeingmostproductivelyinfusedintotwomaincomponentsofteachereducation:(a)asecondarysciencemethodscoursethatmodelstheuseofintegratedpedagogy,and(b)afieldpracticumwithcoachingandsup-portbytrainedteachersupervisorsandcooperatingteachers.
SSTELLA Science Methods Course TheSSTELLAsciencemethodscourseaddressesthecorecontentofsciencemethodsinstruction,i.e.,theoryandresearchonsecondaryscience teaching,aswellasappropriate state sciencestandardsandNGSS.Inaddition,thecourseaddresseslanguageandliteracyintegra-tionforELs,aswellasappropriateCCSSforEnglishLanguageArts.SSTELLA practices are presented through multiple vehicles: videocases, instructor modeled science-language-literacy integrated units,andpreserviceteacher-developedand-implementedscience-language-literacy-integratedlessons. Observation and analysis of video cases.Theuseofvideocasesisef-
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fectiveindevelopingnoviceandexperiencedteachers’abilitytoidentify,analyze,andusenewteachingstrategiesthroughfocusingtheirattentiononspecificclassroomevents,inthiscase,theSSTELLApractices(Abell&Cennamo2004;Rothetal.,2011;Sherin,2004).Videocasesfromtheclassroomsofexperiencedsecondaryscience-ELLteachersincludethedetailedfootageneededtoprovidevisualexemplarsofthefourSSTELLAinstructional practices.The video cases contain both successful andfailedepisodessothatnoviceteacherscandiscernmore-effectivefromless-effectivestrategiesandtransformtheirownconceptionsandprac-ticestoapproximatethoseofexpertteachers(Ash,2007;Sherin,2004).Thepresentedvignettecouldbeanexampleofepisodessharedwithpreserviceteachersandusedtopromoteproductivediscourseforbothindividualandcollaborativereflection(Sherin,2004;Zhang,Lundeberg,Koehler,&Eberhardt,2011).
Application in integrated science units.InformedbyunitspreviouslydevelopedintheESTELLproject,sciencemethodsinstructorsimplementSSTELLA-infusedsecondaryscienceinstructionalunitsthatintegrateNGSSandCCSS(thepreviouslydescribedvignettemightrepresentonemodeledlesson).Throughoutthelesson,instructorsengagein“meta-talk”todiscussSSTELLApracticesandwaystoenhancelearningforlinguisticallydiversestudents.Forinstance,afterthelesson,theinstruc-tormightprompt students to reflect onhow literacywas integratedthroughout,aspartofthefocalscienceactivities,andconsiderwaystosupportlanguagedevelopmentthatwouldespeciallybenefitELs.
Development of integrated science lessons.PreserviceteachersdrawonthemodeledvideocasesandinstructionalunitstodeveloptheirownSSTELLA-infusedscienceandengineeringactivitiestobetaughtinthecourseandintheirstudentteaching(tobevideotaped).Thevignettepresentedearlierexemplifiesthetypeoflessonwewouldhopetosee,eveninthesenoviceteachers.Thesciencemethodsinstructorandotherstudentsanalyzeandprovidefeedbackonthelessonsusingtheproject-developedSSTELLAClassroomObservationRubric(SCOR).
SSTELLA Teaching Practicum with Coaching and Support AllSSTELLAstudentsreceivecoachingandsupportfromtheSSTEL-LA-trainedcooperatingteacherinwhoseclassroomtheyareplacedandaresupervisedbyaSSTELLA-traineduniversitysupervisorwhovisitsthemintheirclassrooms,observestheirteachingperformance,givesthemfeedback,andprovidesafinalevaluation.AllofthecooperatingteachersandteachersupervisorsparticipateinprofessionaldevelopmentactivitieswherebytheyexperienceanddebrieftheSSTELLAframework
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viaasequenceofactivitiesthatparallelthoseincludedintheSSTELLAsciencemethodscourse.Inparticular,thisincludes(a)anintroductiontothetheorybehindlanguage-scienceintegration,(b)participationinSSTELLAlessonactivities,(c)studyoftheSSTELLAframeworkthroughanalysisofvideocases(onceagain,thevignettereflectsthetypeofpracticeshigh-lighted),and(d)curriculumanalysis(deconstructionandreconstruction)andlessonplandevelopmentusingtheSSTELLAframework.Additionally,cooperatingteachersanduniversitysupervisorsreceivetraininginhowtousetheSSTELLArubricforassessingstudentteachers’performanceandprovidingcoachingandfeedback.
Next Steps:Researching the Impact of the SSTELLA Framework
AlthoughtheSSTELLAframeworkisgroundedinempiricalresearch,westillmustdetermine the impact that it couldhaveonpreservicescienceteachersandtheirfuturestudents.WearecurrentlyusingtheSSTELLAframework inaquasi-experimental longitudinalstudy1atfouruniversityteacherpreparationprogramsacrossthewesternandsouthwesternUnitedStates.Thedesigncallsforustotracktwosecondarysciencecohortsateachprogram(~180teachers),oneduringthe2013-2014academicyearandoneduringthe2014-2015academicyear.Thefirstcohortservesasourbaselinecontrol,i.e.,teacherswhoreceivenocurricularintervention,whereasthesecondcohortwillreceivespecial-izedinstructionandmentoringfocusedontheSSTELLAinstructionalpractices.OurtheoryofchangestatesthatScience Methodinstructors’increasedimplementation(andmodeling)ofSSTELLApracticeswillleadtopositivechangesinpreservicesecondaryteachers’knowledgeofSSTELLApracticesandbeliefsaboutteachingsciencetoELs.This,inturn,willleadtoincreasedimplementationofSSTELLApracticesasstudentandnoviceteachers,whichwillultimatelyimprovestudentlearning.Thus,wewillknowwhetherourframeworkiseffectiveifwesee(a)asignificantincreaseinSTELLA-trainedteachers’knowledge,beliefs,andpracticesofteachingsecondarysciencetoELs,ascomparedtoabaselinecontrolgroup;(b)arelationshipbetweenScience Methodsinstructors’ fidelity of implementation (FOI) of SSTELLA practicesandtreatmentteachers’knowledge,beliefs,andpracticesofteachingsciencetoELs;and(c)arelationshipbetweentreatmentteachers’FOIofSSTELLApracticesandtheirstudents’scienceachievementinthesecondyearofteaching. Wearecollectingquantitativeandqualitativedatafromthreeprimarysources.First,weareusingasurveythatconsistsofLikertitemsand
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open-endeditemstotrackchangesinteacherbeliefsbeforetheirsciencemethodscourse,attheendoftheirteacherpreparationprogram,andduringtheirfirstandsecondyearsofteaching.Second,wewillfollowupwithaninterviewimmediatelyaftertheadministrationofeachsurveytoelicitamorenuancedunderstandingofteacherbeliefsthatcanthenbecomparedtothesurveyresults.Finally,wewillobserveandvideotapeteachersfourtimes(twiceduringstudentteachingandtwiceduringtheirfirsttwoyearsofteaching),usingSCORtogatherquantitativeandqualitativedataonhowtheirteachingpracticeschangeovertime.AllthreeinstrumentsarealignedtothefourSSTELLApractices. Inadditiontoobservingthepreserviceteachers,weareobservingtheteachers’methodinstructorateachprogramsite,usingSCORtoanalyzerelationshipsbetweenwhatthemethodinstructorsdoandwhatthepreserviceteachersthenimplementintheirclassrooms.Finally,forasmallersubsetofsecond-yearteachers(bothcontrolandtreatment),wewilladministerandanalyzestudentachievementdatabeforeandafteraninstructionalunitrelatedtostudents’productiveuseofcore science ideasandlanguagewhileengaginginauthenticscientificpracticesandtexts.Thus,wewillattempttomeasurethe impactof implementingtheSSTELLAframeworkthroughananalysisandcomparisonofstu-dents’scienceachievement.Ourmixedmethodresearchdesignallowsforstatisticalanalysisofprogramimpact,aswellasamorein-depthqualitativeanalysisofthisimpactandchangesovertime.WeanticipateusingthesefindingstorefinehowpreservicesecondaryscienceteachersarepreparedtoteachELs.Forinstance,wemayfindthatteachers,andperhapsevenmethodinstructions,demonstratelowerlevelsofimple-mentingcontextualizedinstructionthanotherpractices.Wecouldthenadjustourcurriculumtoaddresscontextualizationmoreintensely.
Concluding Remarks
Inthisarticle,weproposeaframework,SSTELLA,fordevelopingapreserviceteachereducationprogramdesignedtopreparesecondaryteacherstointegratetheteachingofacademiclanguageandliteracywithrigoroussciencecontentinstructionfortherapidlygrowingpopula-tionofEnglishlearners.Noviceteachersbenefitfromexplicitmodelsofintegratedinstructionalpracticesthatuseexemplarinstructionalunitsandvideocasesthatlinkthemodelsusedinteachingsciencemethodswiththoseinteachingpracticumactivities.Coherencewouldbeachieved,aspreserviceteachersreceivecoachingandfeedbackwhiledevelopingintegratedteachingpracticesbyexpertmentorswhothemselveshavebeencoached.WeseetheSSTELLAframework,whichbuildsonthe
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NGSSandCCSS,ascentraltothisintegratedmodelofpreservicesec-ondaryteacherpreparation. Although thisarticlehas focusedon thepreparationof teacherstoworkwithELs,thenewstandardsrecognizethecriticalrolethatlanguage,literacy,anddiscourseplayinthelearningofscienceforallstudents.Onecannotlearnsciencewithoutalsolearningthescientificregister: the specialized, cognitively demanding language functions,andstructuresneededtounderstand,conceptualize,symbolize,discuss,read,andwriteabouttopicsinacademicsubjects.Similarly,onecannotdosciencewithoutusingscientifictoolsforsense-makingandthinkingthataremediatedthroughlanguage.Thus,secondaryscienceteachersalsoneedtounderstandhowELsandEnglishproficientstudentsben-efitfromtheintegrationofsciencewithacademiclanguageandliteracydevelopment. Finally,althoughwedevelopedourargumentinthecontextofscience,itmayextendtoothersubjectareas,suchasmathematicsandsocialstudies.Studentscanbenefitfromlearningexperiencesthatenablethemtouselanguagefunctionssituatedineachoftheircontentareas.Thecriticalpointsarethatlanguageprocessespromoteunderstandingofcontentacrossallsubjectmatterdomains,andthatlanguageuseshouldbecontextualizedinauthenticandconcreteactivity.Wesuggestthat,acrosstheUnitedStates,wherelanguageminoritystudentsrepresentasignificantpercentageoftheschool-agepopulation(U.S.CensusBureau,2010),methodsofEnglishlanguagedevelopmentshouldbeintegratedintoallelementaryandsecondarysubjectmattermethodsclassesandstaffdevelopmentprograms.IntegratedinstructionwillassistlanguageminoritystudentsinmasteringtheEnglishlanguageandsimultane-ouslyimprovetheirachievementinacademicsubjects.
Note 1ThismaterialisbasedonworksupportedbytheNationalScienceFoundation(NSF)DiscoveryResearchK–12ProgramunderGrantNo.DRL-1316834.Anyopinions,findings,conclusions,orrecommendationsexpressedinthismaterialarethoseoftheauthorsanddonotnecessarilyreflecttheviewsoftheNSF.
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