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TESOL English Language Bulletin- 6 tips for engaging the families of English language learners 5 December 2019
- 10 prominent women education leaders share steps to improve the US education system 5 December 2019
- Survey: Special needs students, ELs more positive about school mental health services 5 December 2019
- States gear up to overhaul K-12 funding in 2020 5 December 2019
- English language proficiency in Malaysia suffers from denial 5 December 2019
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Tag Archives: teacher education
Why I Refuse to Call My Colleagues “ELL Teachers”
Michelle Benegas
I can hear my grandmother’s voice echoing through her house as she called. “Get your feet off the davenport!” My mother still calls remote controls “clickers.” My siblings and I have found humor in their use of these antiquated terms. … Continue reading
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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Tagged as evergreen, Kristen Lindahl, online resources, teacher education, tech tools, technology resources
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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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