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Schools nowadays often give reading and math assignments that students are required to do during their summer vacation. My school in Massachusetts had lists of books for each grade level, starting at Grade 3, and students had to choose 2 books to read and then complete 2 of the tasks
ELLs are probably more at risk of summer learning loss than other students if they don’t have sustained exposure to the English language during their summer vacations. But what can teachers do to mitigate this? Join Laurah and me this coming Sunday, May 21st, and find out about some Technology
Yesterday in the #ELLEdTech chat, Laurah and I discussed technology tools for helping newcomers, which we defined as English Language Learners from other countries who have very low proficiency levels of English. Teaching these students is challenging, especially if they arrive in the middle of the school year and it
How does your school district define newcomer students? Are they immigrants who don’t know any English? Are they students from foreign countries who know some English already but are not yet proficient? Do SLIFE (students with limited formal education) fit in this category or are they a separate group of
I used QR codes in the classroom for the first time last week. You might be asking: What took so long? Well, for one thing, the school where I used to work didn’t allow students or teachers to use cellphones in class. Now I’m no longer a classroom teacher so
This month, we’re returning to North America for the next post in this series. An earlier post discussed the education system in the Francophone province of Quebec, in eastern Canada — as I’m sure you already know, Canada is a bilingual country — so now it’s time to find out
When I was in 5th grade, my math teacher showed the class how to write the number 7 in a different way from what I was used to. She told us that was how people in France wrote it. I was learning French at the time so ever since, I’ve
Today is the first day of Spring so I’d like to discuss school gardens. I always wanted to have a school garden, and I found the perfect place for it, but it never happened, mainly because I just didn’t have the time to add such an undertaking to my schedule
What are your Favorite Technology Tools that you use with English Language Learners? That’s the topic of the next #ELLEdTech Twitter chat with Laurah and me on Sunday, March 19th, at 7:00pm Eastern. We’d love to hear which tech tools — for any subject and for any skill — you
Just as English Language Learners in general don’t fit into one neat package, ELLs who are Muslim come from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. Most Muslim boys and girls dress the same as typical American students, although some Muslim girls may wear a hijab (headscarf), and it is
Did you know that International Women’s Day actually began in the U.S? I sure didn’t! The first time I ever heard of it was a few weeks after my arrival in China in the early 1990s, when the university I worked at took the female foreign teachers to dinner at
A National Monument devoted to the Reconstruction period after the Civil War opened in 2016. It’s located in the area surrounding Beaufort, South Carolina, and reading about it reminded me of the two months I spent at nearby Penn Center on St. Helena Island as a Peace Corps trainer many
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