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Assessing and Placing the Preliterate ESL Learner
- Feb 6, 2023
Pre-beginning or preliterate learners present a unique challenge for assessment.
4 Harmful Myths About Linguistically Minoritized Students
- Jan 30, 2023
Too often, it is assumed that when students come from language and cultural backgrounds that are different from the mainstream, they are lacking in some way, and have less chance of success.
A Teacher Wellness Check-In Before the Spring Semester
- Jan 16, 2023
Teaching is a selfless profession, no doubt, but let’s face facts. You’re only human. That stark and unblinking truth means teacher wellness takes critical damage with every new responsibility that gets thrown your way.
Say It in a Page – Communication for Leaders
- Dec 19, 2022
Here are the benefits explaining why leaders should “say it in a page.”
Get In-Formed: The Power of Forms to Get to Know Your Students
- Dec 12, 2022
Using simple online tools, like Google Forms or Microsoft Forms, allows us to make far deeper connections than you might initially imagine.
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5 Activities to Explore Cultural Diversity
- Dec 5, 2022
Culture is more than artefacts, rituals, and traditions. It is derived from the understanding we acquire through living together as a community and our connections to others within it.
Introducing Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists (KVL)
- Nov 21, 2022
Vocabulary is probably the key type of knowledge necessary for any language use, because if words to express concepts are not known, all syntactic and discourse knowledge is of little use.
Literacy and New MLLs in U.S. Elementary Schools
- Nov 14, 2022
It is important for teachers to realize that not all newcomers come to us with the same background, especially when it comes to literacy.
Small Changes Can Make Your Courses More Inclusive
- Nov 7, 2022
Each learner has lived a unique experience that shaped their perspective and learning needs.
The Importance of Body Language for Effective Oral Communication
- Oct 31, 2022
For those educators who are teaching multilingual language learners (MLLs), body language is an important topic to address.
8 Tips for Refreshing Assignment Guidelines
- Oct 24, 2022
An important part of preparing for the upcoming school year is developing assignment guidelines and accompanying rubrics.
Read the Room – An Important Skill for School Leaders
- Oct 17, 2022
As a school leader, you are placed in front of a crowd on an ongoing basis.
Affecting Language Policy: Start With Your Language Orientation
- Oct 10, 2022
Many people equate policy with law and politics—something that brings to mind lawmakers and politicians rather than educators. However, teachers are central to policy implementation in a number of ways.
If We Must Label Language Learners: EL vs. MLL
- Oct 3, 2022
What’s in a label? In this article, I reflect on the labels that we use in our field to refer to those learning English as an additional language, and how those labels matter.
Using Language Portraits to Explore Students’ Identities
- Sep 26, 2022
The complex nature of identities and how conflicts occur between our self-attributed and other-ascribed identities.
Understanding the Need for SES in Public Schools
- Sep 19, 2022
Supplemental education services (SES) ensure that public schools facilitate their most essential function: to provide every child with an education.
6 Effective Practices for Teaching STEM to MLLs
- Sep 12, 2022
Teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) to multilingual learners (MLLs) can be very challenging because STEM vocabularies can be very complex for even the native English speaker.
Online Self- and Peer-Assessment for Teacher Professional Development: A Case Study of the Process and the Perceived Impact
- Aug 22, 2022
This case study explored the process of English as a second language (ESL) teachers’ participation in online self- and peer assessment (OSA and OPA) during an online teacher professional development (TPD) program focusing on task design and their perception of the subsequent impact on their understanding of tasks.
Developing a Conversation Partner Program
- Aug 15, 2022
English language students want and need real-life conversation practice.