Session N: Navigating team-teaching in the ESOL Co-requisite Course

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Speakers:

Sara de Magalhaes, Faculty, Intensive English

Houston Community College

Chris Rice, Faculty, Intensive English

Houston Community College

The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate the importance of team teaching to transform international students into independent learners, along with strategies concerning team teaching. Primarily, ESL students come from a sheltered learning environment where they are accustomed to reproducing what their teachers tell them. It is important to guide students to acculturate into the American educational system. The co-req teacher has a significant role in “translating” the system into something the students can handle until they are able to continue on their own. This session focuses on team-teaching; however, the topic of preparing English-language learners to be successful in American higher education is relevant to faculty who may not be team-teaching a corequisite course.

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