Bibliography

A Working Bibliography of manuscripts addressing issues in facilitating the science literacy of Hispanic English Language Learners is presented here for your reference and use. A focus of the bibliography is on appropriate preparation of pre-service teacher candidates.
This document is a “work in progress”. The goal is to provide access to the depth and breadth of work currently available.

You are invited to recommend additions to the Working Bibliography. Such recommendations should be sent to Cynthia Sunal at cvsunal@bamaed.ua.edu

Download Working Bibliography (PDF)

Resources

The Wiki’s Role in Constructing a Research Agenda in Preservice Teacher Education
The paper below introduces wikis and is intended to familiarize Post-Conference participants with the purpose and use of the wiki. Questions and comments may be sent to Dr. Vivian Wright at vwright@bamaed.ua.edu and/or to Mr. Chris Inman at uschris@aol.com

• Wiki_Background_Paper (PDF)

Hispanic Alabama: A six-part series by Amanda Dewald
A six-part podcast series on Hispanic Alabama was presented by National Public Radio station WUAL. This series outlines issues and developments that are found in much of the southeastern USA: new opportunities, entrepreneurship, migrant preschool, indigenous languages, community partnerships, and Spanish language media.

• http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wual/.jukebox?action=viewPodcast&podcastId=9063

Useful Links

A set of Useful Links to websites addressing issues in facilitating the science literacy of Hispanic English Language Learners (ELLs) is presented here for your reference and use. A focus of the links is on appropriate preparation of pre-service teacher candidates.
This document is a “work in progress”, providing access to the depth and breadth of work currently available via Internet links.

You are invited to recommend additions to the Useful Links. Examples of such recommendations are links that: enable the user to examine outlines of pre-service teacher preparation programs that are addressing the development of teachers for the science education of ELLs, links that provide overviews of the needs of ELLs in science education, and links that provide resources for teacher candidates in science education of ELLs.  Such recommendations should be sent to Cynthia Sunal at cvsunal@bamaed.ua.edu