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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
The next #ELLEdTech Twitter chat will be on Sunday, February 19th. Laurah and I will be talking about Tools for Teaching Listening. Listening and speaking are often taught together and when that happens, listening often gets short shrift. It’s not enough to just have ELLs hear what’s being said —
Staying in the Southern hemisphere this month, I am delighted to present Olivia, from TpT store Olivia Walker, as January’s guest blogger in my Education Around the World series. Olivia is a teacher at a public school in a semi-rural area of New Zealand. Map of New Zealand; source: The
(This post has been updated for 2023.) Happy Year of the Rabbit! Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it’s known in China, begins soon and traditionally lasts for 15 days. Rabbits are kind, popular, and artistically talented. However, they can also be cautious, temperamental, and uncaring. Source: The ESL
I hope you have found some great resources this past weekend onTeachersPayTeachers using the #KindnessNation and #WeHoldTheseTruths hashtags. In my opinion, there’s no such thing as being too empathetic or knowing too much about how the U.S government works! So in that spirit, I’d like to showcase a few of
Eight years ago I got permission from my principal to watch the first African-American president in U.S. history take the oath of office, instead of doing recess duty out on the school playground. I supervised a slew of middle school students in my classroom who also wanted to see history
Just want to wish you a wonderful 2017! May your students be appropriately inquisitive and be active but well-behaved participants in your class. May all your administrators give you all the support and materials you need whenever you need it. May all your meetings go quickly and uneventfully, all your
Every day when I go to the school where I’m volunteering, I have to sign in and out in the main office. Well, next to the sign in book, I noticed something really interesting this past week and the other day I got permission to blog about it. You know
It’s been a while since I featured a guest blogger writing about education in another country but maybe we can just pretend it’s taken so long since today’s post is about Australia! Map of Australia; The CIA World Factbook I’d like to introduce Jade from TpT store Priceless in Prep,
There are lots of myths and assumptions about working with English Language Learners. How much do you really know? Let’s take a quiz and find out! Decide whether each of the 8 common assumptions in the list below is True or False. 1) Using English all the time at home
As someone who likes learning history and reading historical fiction, I totally enjoyed using technology to teach ancient and world history to my students. What better way to get kids interested in learning about what happened more than 2,000 years than by using 21st century technology to keep them engaged?
The next #ELLEdTech Twitter chat will be this Sunday, November 20th. Laurah and I changed the topic from what we originally planned and will now be talking about Tools for Teaching Tolerance, Promoting Cultural Awareness, and Countering Bullying. Given the many incidents of intolerance that have recently been reported around
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