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Martin Luther King taught us that the color one’s skin is not important. Rather, it is what kind of person you are that matters. I think a correlation of this belief is that it does not matter where you come from or what language you speak — what’s important is
Even though the new year has not yet begun and parts of the U.S are gripped by bitter cold, it’s not too early to think about how you will spend your summer vacation in 2018. If you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, there are numerous professional development opportunities
Even though I don’t celebrate Christmas myself, this is a sentiment I heartily agree with. I wish you and yours a joyous holiday! Source: The ESL Nexus
Transliterating a word from a language that doesn’t use the Roman alphabet can be tricky, especially when there is no equivalent letter in English for the sound in the original language. Such is the case with the Festival of Lights, the Jewish holiday more commonly known as Hanukkah, which began
Students have to comprehend what they are reading in order to understand the new ideas and concepts presented in their texts. When they don’t understand the material, it’s easy for them to lose interest in the subject and that has a negative impact on their learning. Ideally, you are using
My family stopped exchanging Chanukah gifts because after so many years of giving presents to each other, we ran out of ideas. That wasn’t my choice and I was kind of disappointed because I always enjoyed looking for fun presents and seeing people’s reactions when they opened them. Fortunately, we
When you have students from many different ethnic and religious backgrounds in your classes, it is super important to be aware of the impact your teaching during the holiday season can have. Many schools put up displays for Christmas and Chanukah in administrators’ offices and many teachers like to decorate
Thomas Carlyle said, “Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.” Oftentimes English Learners are silent in school and won’t talk for an extended period of time. Teachers need to understand that this is a normal part of second language acquisition–it’s a concept called the Silent Period.
My professors in grad school emphasized the importance of developing schema among English Language Learners. Schema is the fancy word for background knowledge. (And schemata is the plural.) ELLs who are immigrants or who grow up in the U.S. immersed in cultures that are not the dominant American culture often
I had to make a special effort to get the parents of my English Language Learners involved in school activities. Not knowing English, or thinking they didn’t know it well enough, kept a lot of the parents of my ELLs from attending parent-teacher conferences. A lot of my students’ parents
Not all students are lucky enough to have parents who have the time and knowledge to help their children do homework. In addition to not knowing enough English to help their children complete homework assignments, many parents and other caregivers of ELLs have to work during the afternoons and evenings
Quick – after you say hello and get your students settled in your classroom and ready to learn, what’s the next thing you should do? If you said: Go over the written objectives for the lesson, you’re right! You’re probably familiar with the SWABT formula, which is Students Will Be
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