Reflections on Teaching

BUT, there is still time to add your submissions to the next edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival is coming up on May 31st, so don’t delay, get those submissions now before you miss your chance!
We are looking for posts related to the teaching or learning of English, including examples of student work. Need an [...]

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This line comes from the values statement at my congregation, and it got me thinking about whether I was really living up to that goal. This post is the result of some of that reflection and will included references to my religion in a way that I hope is not annoying or offensive.  As they [...]

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I have been super bad about giving “prior” notice about the Edublogs Live Sessions I’ve been doing. The good news: I’ll be assisting on a sessoin where Larry Ferlazzo gets his Facebook page “pimped” up on Sunday at 5 p.m. Pacific Time (click here for more time options). The bad news? I’ve already done a [...]

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Just a reminder, the deadline for submissions to the next edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival is coming up on May 31st, so don’t delay, get those submissions now before you miss your chance!
We are looking for posts related to the teaching or learning of English, including examples of student work. Need an example? Check [...]

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The question comes froma  recent tweet, and shows the tenor of the times as we in California grapple with the disaster that is our state budget…
In my very first contract teaching position in the year 2000, we had a computer lab, and my classroom had Oracle Internet workstations, that seemed so limited at the time, [...]

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It started with a “tweet” from Deven Black, where he lamented about a student placement. I convinced him to blog about it for the upcoming ESL/EFL/ELL Carnival. Here’s the story in Vice Versa « Education On The Plate:
When she arrived from Ecuador two years ago, Juanita, who barely spoke ten words of English, was placed [...]

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Note: This post has been updated from an earlier version to correct links that were incorrect, or had errors.

Photo Credit: lunch note on flickr photosharing
In my first part, I discussed how students could under-perform on a high stakes test, like the California High School Exit Exam ,in a way that has nothing to do with [...]

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VoiceThread has honored my students’ work by featuring one of our VoiceThreads in their new Digital Library. The library is a resource to find good examples of VoiceThreads, and to find out how they were made. As you can see in my example, VoiceThread – Digital Library – Third Graders on Friendship, entries tell [...]

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