Collaboration

=**Collaboration and Co-Teaching**=

**Strategies for English Learners**
//By Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria G. Dove//

(note: I compiled this summary of chapter 1 after reading and finishing my presentations for most of the other chapters. I was unsure as to how to present chapter 1, but a wiki seemed like a common-sense solution to summarize this chapter that doesn't offer a whole lot of new content since this wiki can also serve as a storage place for my other presentations)
 * Chapter 1:** What Is This Book About?


 * Purpose:** This book was written out of a desire to help mainstream and ESL teachers understand each other and collaborate for the benefit of their students. The authors attempt to be mostly descriptive and summarize strategies that have been tried and tested in different settings and relate the successes and shortcomings of those experiences so that current and future teachers may learn from them. The book also provides a summary of the benefits of collaboration and co-teaching and offers some supports to teachers and administrators who may attempt to improve their collaboration and co-teaching strategies for English Learners.


 * Key Components:** I appreciate how each chapter delineates the administrator's role in successful collaboration. At times, this book seems to be written more for the administrators than for teachers because it sometimes refers to actions that could only be successfully taken by the administration or, at least, with their support. I also like how the discussion questions at the end of this chapter give the book more of a "professional development tool" type feel.


 * Collaboration and Co-Teaching:** This chapter makes a small effort to compare and contrast collaboration and co-teaching as a form of collaboration. I am familiar with collaboration, but I am excited to read about how co-teaching might work, what benefits it might offer, and how to make it successful for our students.

The rest of this chapter is "old news" for anyone familiar with EL programs as it simply discusses the definition of an English Language Learner and the different instructional models currently used to meet their needs.

Chapter 2: Why is Collaboration Needed? @http://prezi.com/5a-oas5ndtz0/collaboration-and-co-teaching-chapter-2-why-is-collaboration-needed/

Chapter 3: Who does Teacher Collaboration and ESL Co-Teaching Concern? @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlWvFTsLk2M&feature=youtube_gdata

Chapter 4: What are the Essential Components of an Integrated, Collaborative ESL Program? @http://nhsaint.edu.glogster.com/chapter-4/

Chapter 5: How do Teachers Plan, Instruct, and Assess ELLs Collaboratively? @http://www.empressr.com/View.aspx?token=6xeg0%2bN2ts4%3d

Chapter 6: When do Teachers and ESL Specialists Collaborate and Co-Teach? https://bubbl.us/?h=104004/1ee90d/10rhLrJewru7Q

Chapter 7: Where do Teachers and ESL Specialists Collaborate and Co-Teach? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkqw3BWh0oU&feature=youtube_gdata (You may have to turn your volume up)

Chapter 8: What Next? Reviewing and Evaluating Integrated, Collaborative ESL Programs [|https://quicklyst.appspot.com/app#app] - you will have to sign in as nhsaint at uab.edu and the password is nathansaint (not a password I use anywhere else). I like the features this program has to offer, but it is missing an easy way to share the outline. It also claims to work well with tablets and such, making it great for technologically equipped students.

Chapter 9: Portraits of Collaboration [|Click this link for a pod-cast (mp3 file)]