NEWCOMER TOOL KIT
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CHAPTER 4<br />
RESOURCES<br />
García, O., Flores, N., & Chu, H. (2011). Extending bilingualism in U.S. secondary education: New variations.<br />
International Multilingual Research Journal, 5(1), 1–18.<br />
This article contains a case study of the flexible language practices used to support academic development<br />
at the International High School at LaGuardia Community College.<br />
García, O., Woodley, H. H., Flores, N., & Chu, H. (2013, September 25). Latino emergent bilingual youth<br />
in high schools: Transcaring strategies for academic success. Urban Education, 48(6), 798–827.<br />
doi:10.1177/0042085912462708<br />
This article profiles seven successful high schools and the practicing around caring that they enact to<br />
ensure the success of Latino newcomers.<br />
Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences. New York, NY: Basic Books.<br />
This work presents the theory of multiple intelligences.<br />
Gonzalez, A. (2016, February). The power of a mentor. Educational Leadership, 73(5), 92.<br />
This vignette is about the power of peer mentoring in supporting the academic and social emotional<br />
development of one newcomer student.<br />
Gonzalez, L. M., Eades, M. P., & Supple, A. J. (2014). School community engaging with immigrant youth:<br />
Incorporating personal/social development and ethnic identity development. School Community Journal,<br />
24(1), 99–117.<br />
This essay describes the ways in which peer, school, and family social networks serve as supports for<br />
immigrant students’ social and emotional development.<br />
Haynes, J. (n.d.). Sensitize your mainstream students. Retrieved from http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/<br />
sensitize.php<br />
This blog post discusses specific ideas on how to create a welcoming classroom environment for<br />
newcomers. The author provides discussion questions that are to be used in small groups of adults at<br />
professional learning activities.<br />
Igoa, C. (2015). The inner world of the immigrant child. New York, NY: Routledge.<br />
Portrays the immigrant experience of uprooting, culture shock, and adjustment to a new world, and<br />
describes cultural, academic, and psychological interventions that facilitate learning as immigrant students<br />
make the transition to a new language and culture.<br />
Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education. (n.d.). Longitudinal immigrant student adaptation study<br />
[Web page]. Retrieved from http://ige.gseis.ucla.edu/longitudinal-immigrant-student-adaptation-study/<br />
This Web page describes a longitudinal study to better understand the adaptation of recently arrived<br />
(within the last 5 years) immigrant children into their new environments, and includes links to participant<br />
interview protocols, and publications that emerged from the study.<br />
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION • <strong>NEWCOMER</strong> <strong>TOOL</strong> <strong>KIT</strong> • CHAPTER 4 • 29<br />
No official endorsement by the Department of any product, commodity, service, enterprise, curriculum, or program of instruction<br />
mentioned in this publication is intended or should be inferred. For the reader’s convenience, the tool kit contains information about<br />
and from outside organizations, including URLs. Inclusion of such information does not constitute the Department’s endorsement.