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Selected Strategies and Activities To Provide Challenging Instruction to ESOL Students in Content Area Courses

This paper describes how a large school district in suburban Atlanta, Georgia dealt with the challenges presented by the relatively sudden influx of a large number of highly heterogeneous limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. The eight most critical specific problems that underlay the assimilation of the new students included the following: a lack of proper assessment techniques; a largely negative categorization of the limited-

• Author/Creator: Frutiger, Eliso Corp Author DeKalb County School System Decatur G. A.
• Date Published: 11-00
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Administrators
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Community
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Professional Development
• Subject: Limited English Speaking
• Subject: Parent Participation
• Subject: School Community Relationship
• Subject: Teaching Methods

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