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What is the message that is given to students when a Social Studies course on world geography has textbooks for Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and North America but not for Africa or Latin America? That was the situation I found myself in when I had to teach that subject
“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.” — Robert Burns It’s fitting that this month’s guest blogger comes from Scotland because January 25th is Burns Night, which honors Robert Burns. Frances McGowan is a retired EAL teacher and the name of her TpT store is EALEE, which stands for
I don’t ever recall being taught how to write a citation. Part of the reason might be because I attended three different high schools. I went to tenth grade in Pennsylvania, where the curriculum was to learn how to write an essay the following year. But my family moved during
“To be prepared is half the victory.” — Miguel Cervantes I hate teaching to the test but sometimes it is necessary. Here are my top three reasons why I dislike doing test prep and also one reason why I think it’s important. As the testing season for administering the annual
Although schools in the U.S. are on vacation now because of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, do you know when schools in other countries begin their academic year? It makes a difference if you have children arriving mid-way through your own school year because the decision about which grade
Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and ends, of looking back and looking forward… Image of Janus on a coin; source: Wikimedia Commons It’s traditional at the end of a year to reflect back on the previous 365 days and try to objectively analyze how things worked out and then
When I was in high school, my parents pulled my sister and me out of school for nine days to go on a trip to another country. They’d gotten a fantastic deal and didn’t want to pass it up; they also thought it would be a good opportunity for us
This week continues with the second installment in my Education Around the World series with a guest post by Paul Bougie from TpT store Creative Couple in Quebec, Canada. I am especially pleased to welcome Paul because I spent a wonderful summer studying French in Quebec City many years ago.
Teaching can be a solitary and often thankless job: Teachers toil and burn the midnight oil, children’s tempers boil, administrators may foil sound lesson ideas, and education in the U.S. roils with reformers and politicians who think they know what ails the teaching profession. It’s enough to spoil the idealism
Je suis triste. I am sad. Coat of arms of the City of Paris; source: Bluebear2 via Wikimedia Commons I was going to write this week’s post about being thankful and tying it in somehow to promoting my one and only Thanksgiving product. I hadn’t planned it out though and
There were a lot of students whose families emigrated to the US from India in the school district in which I worked and I taught many Indian students during my time there. Even though Indian cuisine is one of my favorites, I didn’t know much about India when I first
English Language Learners and their families come from all over the globe and bring their cultures with them. Even for ELLs who were born in the US and have always lived here, if their parents and/or other relatives were raised in another country, their children will absorb those customs and
