Fall 2026

Foundations of ESL Education

Addresses social, cultural, and educational issues in schooling for young English learners.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Adriene LaneAngela LakeCurtis Wright +1 more

Summary

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Historical reviews of Arun Kolar: The course required students to lead class presentations, though the instructor's interruptions hindered this process.

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Elementary Education BSE, Capstone Certificate in Spanish-English Bilingual-Bicultural Education, Certificate in Preparing to Teach Abroad, or Certificate in Global Cultures, Languages and Education

  • Declared in Elementary Education BSE, Capstone Certificate in Spanish-English Bilingual-Bicultural Education, Certificate in Preparing to Teach Abroad, or Certificate in Global Cultures, Languages and Education
CURRIC 312

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Prerequisite text tree
  • Declared in Elementary Education BSE, Capstone Certificate in Spanish-English Bilingual-Bicultural Education, Certificate in Preparing to Teach Abroad, or Certificate in Global Cultures, Languages and Education

Professors

Fall 2026
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews for Arun Kolar describe a poor teaching experience where the instructor prioritized personal anecdotes over course material. One reviewer reported that Kolar frequently interrupted students and went on long tangents, while also presenting student work without permission instead of allowing them to present it themselves.

ARUN KOLAR is recorded teaching in Spring 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction141 / 1600
DIS 301Classroom Instruction28 / 280
DIS 302Classroom Instruction23 / 280
DIS 303Classroom Instruction28 / 280
DIS 304Classroom Instruction20 / 280
DIS 305Classroom Instruction28 / 280
DIS 306Classroom Instruction14 / 290

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Student experience

the class

A historical review of Arun Kolar describes a frustrating experience where teaching was disrupted by personal tangents and interrupted student presentations.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.95 GPA, 96.2% A/AB (n=105 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.84 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=119 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.88 GPA, 95.9% A/AB (n=123 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Arun Kolar: The course required students to lead class presentations, though the instructor's interruptions hindered this process.

Historical reviews of Arun Kolar: Students found the instructor's focus on personal anecdotes and long tangents to be a significant distraction from actual teaching.

Topics

  • Theories of language use and learning
  • Registers and varieties of English
  • Program structures and designs
  • School and classroom environments
  • Connections between families and schools

Skills

  • Analyze social, cultural, and educational issues in schooling for young English learners
  • Evaluate factors impacting teaching and learning for English learners
  • Apply theories of language use and learning
  • Understand registers and varieties of English
  • Analyze program structures and designs for English learners
  • Assess school environments and family-school connections

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Fall 2026.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1320 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
CURRIC 312 · Fall 2026

Foundations of ESL Education

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records 
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Student reviews

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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
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Full model traces

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Model & dataset provenance 
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  "task_version": "14",
  "output_id": "009ff88e2e71e795e9ac52c91614e23c09f05a461ba7f2d57bc3560f9446bfc9",
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