Description
This newer Edition reflects current issues in language program administrators by experienced professionals in the field, focuses on the multiple roles that language program administrators must play, including multicultural manager; strategic planner; decision maker; negotiator; innovator; advocate for students, faculty, and the program; promoter; organizer; personnel manager; quality guarantor; and financial planner. Each chapter offers an accurate picture of the challenges faced by language program administrators and presents practitioners with practical, tried and true, suggestions. Each chapter includes a list of suggested reading and a set of discussion questions and activities. The volume begins with a section on transitioning from teaching to administration and concludes with a section on different contexts for English language tracing-adult education, bi-national centers centers, intensive English programs, international schools, K-12 programs, and private schools-with an emphasis on the duties of language program administrators and the challenges that they faced in these contexts.
