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Tag Archives: Kristen Lindahl
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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Best Books for Latino English Learners
Kristen Lindahl
In México on 30 April, el Día del Niño is a celebration of children, where youth is honored and adults are reminded of the importance of the caring for and raising of children. The holiday has also been celebrated recently in the United … Continue reading
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Tagged as culturally responsive teaching, ELT reading list, evergreen, Kristen Lindahl, primary education, reading resources
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It’s TESOL Convention Time Again!
Kristen Lindahl
It’s TESOL International Convention time again, and as an L2 teacher education blogger, I would be remiss if I did not discuss the largest professional development event in the TESOL field. According to tesol.org, the convention hosts about 6,500 participants … Continue reading
Great Grammar for TESOL Teachers
Kristen Lindahl
March 4th in the United States was National Grammar Day! To be honest, I would not have known it was was National Grammar Day had Facebook not reminded me. But still, the armchair grammarians of the world apparently celebrated; thus, this … Continue reading
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To HOTs or Not? Higher Order Thinking for ELLs
Kristen Lindahl
In 1949, Benjamin Bloom posed a taxonomy for demands on cognition—a hierarchy for looking at thinking in terms of the various cognitive processes that people employ for different types of tasks. More than 65 years later, that original taxonomy is still … Continue reading
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TESOL Educators as Policy Makers
Kristen Lindahl
It’s an election year in the United States, so U.S. teachers are constantly reminded of their role in the political process and the need to cast their votes for the elected officials that serve them. Often, educators feel like they … Continue reading
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Tagged as advocacy, education legislation, education policy, evergreen, Kristen Lindahl, teacher education
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Differentiate Your TESOL Syllabus
Kristen Lindahl
Teacher educators, myself included, often encourage preservice and in-service teachers to differentiate for their ELLs. While ELLs tend to be seen as one school “subgroup,” they may actually be the most diverse! Some of the ways in which ELLs will … Continue reading
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5 Sources of Support for New TESOL Teachers
Kristen Lindahl
In my previous blog entry, I posed some ideas for helping future TESOL teachers transition from the role of student to teacher. To follow up on that, I focus this entry on the next step: how to support those new … Continue reading
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