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TESOL English Language Bulletin- New academic standards will keep more immigrant students in English proficiency classes next year 27 June 2017
- Where poor students are top of the class 27 June 2017
- See Betsy DeVos' update on cutting education regulations 27 June 2017
- States boosting K-12 funding across the US 27 June 2017
- Parliamentarians fail basic English proficiency test 27 June 2017
Tag Archives: teacher education
Five ELT Trends to Watch in 2017
Kristen Lindahl
The new year is well underway, and many opportunities to innovate and improve our pedagogical practices abound! Below are five of the top trends that I predict will frame much of the discussion in the coming year around how to … Continue reading
Four Suggestions on Implementing Feedback in Writing Teacher Training Courses
Elena Shvidko
In a previous blog, I described three recommendations for writing teacher education programs on how to incorporate some issues of feedback in teacher preparatory courses. In today’s blog, I provide four more ideas related to the same topic. Once again, … Continue reading
Feedback in Writing Teacher Education: 3 Suggestions
Elena Shvidko
I’d like to continue my conversation about implementing issues related to feedback into teacher training/education programs. In today’s post, I provide three ideas that writing teacher educators can use in their preparatory courses: 1) helping teachers develop their philosophies about … Continue reading
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Homework for ELLs: Help or Hindrance?
Kristen Lindahl
Homework and school have gone hand-in-hand for so long that it’s mostly assumed, if not ingrained, that studying outside of the classroom is an essential part of any schooling experience. Like any other part of education, homework trends have come … Continue reading
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Tagged as elementary education, evergreen, homework, Kristen Lindahl, primary education, secondary education, teacher education
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10 ELL Must-Haves for the First Day of School
Kristen Lindahl
Students and teachers in the United States are packing up their summer gear in favor of backpacks and briefcases to get ready to go back to school. Although calendars around the world differ, the first days of a new school … Continue reading
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Tagged as classroom management, evergreen, Kristen Lindahl, teacher education
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Organize Online Lessons and Resources: Live Binders
Kristen Lindahl
To follow up on my last post about TESOL curriculum innovation and design, in this post I review online curation software called Live Binders. As an ESL teacher in the 1990’s, I had always kept my “stuff”—lesson plans, handouts, tests, quizzes, … Continue reading
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3 Steps to Innovate TESOL Curriculum
Kristen Lindahl
If necessity is the mother of invention, as TESOL educators, we may want to develop our own or adopt new materials for a few reasons. Sometimes, we find ourselves in teaching contexts without the materials that we need or would … Continue reading
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Tagged as curriculum, evergreen, Kristen Lindahl, materials development, materials writers, teacher education
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5 Reasons We Need TESOL Teacher Education
Kristen Lindahl
Recently in the United States, some states have been turning to hiring people who are not certified or trained teachers to fill open classroom positions. States such as Utah and Georgia are allowing schools to hire individuals with a bachelor’s degree … Continue reading
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Embracing the International TESOL Perspective
Kristen Lindahl
This weekend, I participated in the Southwest Fulbright Symposium in Texas, and it was just what I needed for renewed inspiration about the importance of international perspective in our field. In one morning, I listened to colleagues talk about brokering peace in Colombia, … Continue reading
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Tagged as English as a lingua franca, field trips, Kristen Lindahl, professional development, teacher education, World Englishes
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11 Tips for Preventing Summer Slide—in Teachers
Kristen Lindahl
The “summer slide” is an education phenomenon during which students regress in their learning and language development over the summer months when they are not in school. In her 5 May 2016 post, “11 Tips to Help ELs Avoid the Summer Slide,” … Continue reading
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