Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Today I spent a little time helping out another teacher with resources for teaching about the planets. I thought I’d take a moment and just share here too…. This is fascinating stuff for kids of all ages and if you can get them doing any of the following, you’ll be successful.
1. Project – get groups [...]
Pluralism is something we don’t think about too often but WE SHOULD, especially as language teachers, especially English language teachers.
Part of our role, wherever we are, is to educate our students about the incredible diversity of this planet, cultural/linguistic. Educate our students to embrace “the other” and love the other (if I may be so [...]
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Headlines Around the World
Long ago, when lost in translation, in E. Europe, I was a copy editor for a English Chinese business magazine. I’d get the articles and polish them and send them back. This was in the very early days of the internet. Part of my job was rewriting the headlines. The Chinese were [...]
Well, as I announced in our newsletter, it has been two years since I first flipped the switch and started EFL Classroom 2.0. Time flies and I want to say first of all – THANK YOU to everyone who has signed the guestbook. If you haven’t, please share your own thoughts. Let us know you [...]
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I’ve long been one who “protests” the dictionary as a form of enslavement! It is a traffic cop, a false prophet saying and prescribing what words are “right” and which are “wrong”. BAAAAAAHHHHH
This delightful TED Talk is really entertaining and in her quirky way, this “lexicographer” pleads for technology to liberate words and give us [...]
I have the honor and privilege of quite often giving end of year, end of course, graduation and other speeches to teachers. I take it seriously and usually end with a story. Stories work well and inspire. One of the ones I’ve used most often is this one – MAKE A DIFFERENCE. But I have [...]
This is a question that faces many classroom teachers. Is the “slower” student who just can’t seem to acquire English suffering from a learning disability (LD)? Or is this student just going at their own pace or in need of more English input and maybe differentiated instruction? How to know, how to decide?
Dinklage [...]
I recently attended Kotesol’s National Conference. It was themed upon “Reflection and Prof. Development”.
I had a great time (thanks to all who attended my own following day workshops!) and sat in on some excellent lectures/presentations. But the highlight was the opening plenary by Dr. Thomas Farrell. I was taken with his very practical focus and [...]
Saturday, January 31, 2009
The 9th EFL / ESL / ELL Blog Carnival!
Thanks to everyone who entered the Blog Carnival! Please find all the great entries below. I think it would be great if readers and contributors both would comment on the voicethread (below). What entry did you really like? What do you want to ask the authors? Or [...]
