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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/04/esl_teachers_in_common-core_er.html

ESL Teachers in Common-Core Era Need Different Prep, Paper Argues
By Lesli A. Maxwell
April 7, 2014

As public schools move headlong into teaching new, more rigorous standards in reading, math, and science, English-as-a-second-language teachers must become more involved in the central enterprise of teaching and supporting academic content for ELL students than has traditionally been the case, a new paper argues.

Making that work for ESL professionals will require some major shifts in how these teachers are prepared before they ever enter the classroom, contend authors Guadalupe Valdés, Amanda Kibler, and Aída Walqui. (Valdés is an education professor at Stanford University, Kibler is an assistant professor of education at the University of Virginia, and Walqui directs teacher professional development for WestEd, a San Francisco-based education research, development, and services agency.)

Coursework in applied linguistics, second-language acquisition, and methods for teaching second-language learners in the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking will no longer be enough, they say. For example, ESL teachers need to understand the language and language practices that are specific to different subject areas and disciplines.

Read the full article and access the paper at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/04/esl_teachers_in_common-core_er.html