Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning - ESL Educator Training & Professional Development for Classroom Success

I highly recommend this book! As a Teacher Educator and English Department Coordinator I have found the book really enlightening.The topics chosen; based on solid research and sound experience in the field and how they are analyzed and described provide an ample vision of the different issues we need to deal with and we have to pay special attention to, in the light of new theories but taking into consideration previous paradigms and theories that have helped our profession evolve. Díaz Maggioli clearly and successfully manages to explain and illustrate the sociocultural paradigm as well as how scaffolding should be framed to help teacher educators guide and activate the learning of future teachers. In each of the eight chapters you find a reader's friendly layout, well organized topics and it also offers room for self-reflection as you read along. Gabriel Díaz Maggioli provides a solid theoretical background every time he deals with a new topic and relates that theory to very clear examples and classroom situations. It is a book you must have if you are a teacher educator or if you are planning to become one of us.