Teaching ESL K-12: Views from the Classroom

Teaching ESL K-12: Views from the Classroom offers practical views and theoretical background on a variety of issues unique to teaching ESL in a K-12 setting by examining such aspects as curriculum, program models, assessment, and staff development.

Dr. Hamayan is Director of the Illinois Resource Center in Des Plaines, Illinois. She has helped teachers in schools across the nation and abroad with issues of second-language learning, dual language instruction, special education, culture learning, and bi-literacy. She has also worked with administrators in program development, particularly in dual language schools. She has taught English as a foreign language, conducted research, and consulted with refugee programs and state boards of education, in addition to Pre K-12 schools.