Co-Teaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning, Instruction, Assessment, and Reflection

About Andrea HonigsfeldMaria G. Dove

Maria G. Dove Ed.D is currently a Professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Molloy College Rockville Centre New York. Prior to working in higher education she spent over thirty years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in public schools and adult English language programs. She is well-known for her professional development work across the United States focusing on culturally and linguistically diverse students. Doves work has led her to publish books articles and chapters on collaborative teaching practices and instructional strategies for English learners. In collaboration with Andrea Honigsfeld she has co-authored four best-selling Corwin Press books including Collaboration for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019). Andrea Honigsfeld EdD is Professor in the School of Education at Molloy University Rockville Centre New York. Before entering the field of teacher education she was an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher in Hungary (Grades 58 and adult) and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City (Grades K3 and adult). She also taught Hungarian at New York University. She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. Johns University New York where she conducted research on individualized instruction and learning styles. She has published extensively on working with English language learners and providing individualized instruction based on learning style preferences. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past twelve years she has been presenting at conferences across the United States Great Britain Denmark Sweden the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates. She coauthored Differentiated Instruction for At-Risk Students (2009) and co-edited the five-volume Breaking the Mold of Education series (20102013) published by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also the co-author of Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching K5 and 612 (2014) published by Heinemann. With Maria Dove she co-edited Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale Research Reflections and Recommendations (2012) and co-authored Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010) Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner Grades K5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013) Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner Grades 612: English Language Arts Strategies (2013) Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014) Collaboration and Co-Teaching: A Leaders Guide (2015) Coteaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning Instruction Assessment and Reflection (2018) Collaborating for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019) Co-Planning: 5 Essential Practices to Integrate Curriculum and Instruction for English Learners (2022).  She is a contributing author of Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learner Success (2020) From Equity Insights to Action (2021) and Digital-Age Teaching for English Learners (2022). Nine of her Corwin books are bestsellers.