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Regardless of whether you’ve just finished your first quarter parent conferences or they are coming up soon, keeping families informed about how their children are doing is of paramount importance to students’ success in school. I’ve written before about why I so enjoyed working with the parents of my English
When you have to communicate with the families of your English Language Learners, do you: a) Procrastinate as long as possible because you find it difficult to talk with people who don’t have strong English skills? b) Ask a parent liaison to get in touch with them on your behalf?
Only five weeks left to the U.S. presidential election! You might be saying hooray but when I was a classroom teacher working with ELLs, some of whom were immigrants from countries with very different political systems, I always enjoyed election season. It offered so many great, real-life opportunities for teaching
I think every teacher, especially ESL teachers, should spend some time working in a foreign country, although I don’t think it’s necessary to follow Ibn Battuta’s example and travel around the world for 29 years. Teaching internationally offers many professional and personal benefits, not least of which is that the
Do you teach in a 1:1 classroom? Do you use Google Drive or Microsoft One products with your students? Have you ever just wanted to try a digital resource to see if your students like learning that way or if it increases their engagement with your curriculum? Or are you
Providing reading instruction that develops students’ skills without reaching their frustration level is always a challenge but at the beginning of a new school year, it may be difficult to get an accurate idea of where students are in terms of their reading skills. This is especially true for ELLs
I used to think that word walls were just for little kids to learn the alphabet and how to spell basic sight words. I thought they were just a prop that students could look at when they needed a little extra support with their writing. Now I know better! A
(This post was updated August 12, 2024) Regardless of the subject you are licensed to teach, if you work in a U.S. public school you are probably an ESL teacher, too. Chances are you have at least one English Language Learner (ELL) in your class and if you don’t this
The #ELLEdTech Twitter chat is back this Sunday, August 21st! Please join co-host Laurah from Tools for Teachers by Laurah J and me at 7:00pm Eastern, 4:00pm Pacific time as we discuss Tools for Helping Teachers Learn More about Working with ELLs. Details are below. Join us! Schedule and Questions
I was locked out of my classroom for most of the summer when the superintendent decided several years ago that teachers could not enter the district schools more than a week later than the last day or a week before the first day of school. This was annoying because I
Once upon a time, many years ago, I spent a year in Sweden as a high school exchange student. Attending a school where all the instruction was in Swedish gave me valuable insights when I became an ESL teacher decades later because it was really easy for me to empathize
July is synonymous with “vacation” in the U.S. so Laurah and I have decided our monthly #ELLEdTech Twitter chats will also take a break. There will not be a chat this month but we will return on the third Sunday in August. I’ll post the topic and guidelines in advance
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