Spring 2027

Foundations of ESL Education

Foundations of ESL Education explores social, cultural, and educational issues affecting young English learners, covering language theories, English varieties, program design, and family-school connections.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Arun Kolar

The course required students to lead discussions, but this was often undermined by the instructor's long, off-topic interruptions.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate how key topics and issues pertaining to emergent ESL students intersect with differing views about equitable schooling and education.

  • Apply theories and concepts about factors related to equitable teaching, learning, and curriculum to assess practicum experiences that involve emergent ESL students.

  • Identify and articulate key topics and issues related to the schooling and education of emergent ESL students.

  • Evaluate the social, cultural, political and historical contexts of educational policies and programs related to emergent ESL students.

Source: UW Guide

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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
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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

Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

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

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Arun Kolar

Students found the class frustrating due to excessive tangents and a lack of focus on actual teaching content.

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

Past student reviews · Arun Kolar

The course required students to lead discussions, but this was often undermined by the instructor's long, off-topic interruptions.

Past student reviews · Arun Kolar

A reviewer noted that the instructor spent more time sharing personal anecdotes than teaching and once presented a student's work without their permission.

Topics

  • Language use theories and registers/varieties of English
  • Program structures, classroom environments, and family-school connections
  • Social, cultural, political, and historical contexts of ESL policies

Skills

  • Assessing practicum experiences involving emergent ESL students using equity-focused theories.
  • Evaluating social, cultural, political, and historical contexts of ESL educational policies.

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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About this comparison

1316 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

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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