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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
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
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
My most memorable mealis every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; thesweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother’s Southern heritage;the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife’s Midwestern roots; theCampbell’s green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/turkey.html?vm=l If you’re a regular ed
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
