Steven J. Amendum
Steven J. Amendum is Professor and Director of the School of Education at the University of Delaware. He received his doctorate in literacy education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Amendum’s research areas include early reading intervention, literacy development and instruction for multilingual learners, and evidence-based classroom instruction, as well as teacher professional development.
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Multilingual students benefit when grade-level and specialist teachers collaborate
Most teachers in public schools (67.3%) will have at least one multilingual learner in their class, yet many have no preparation for supporting these students (NCES, 2022; Johnson & Wells, 2017). For example, less than half of teachers (47.9%) have taken a course on how to provide effective instruction for […]
