Archive for April, 2010
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Hi, Again, I want to thank you all for the tremendous support that you have given me in my ESL teaching career. Soon, I will be teaching Speaking mostly. I will be using a book, but will have to be creative and use applicaton strategies to teach the target language. Can you please give me [...]
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
November 8th-12th is National Young Readers Week. National Young Readers Week was started in 1989 by the Pizza Hut Book It program and the Library of Congress’ Center for the Book. This week is meant to encourage children to read, and the Book It program recommends schools invite local celebrities to act as role models [...]
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
Many non-native speakers use tense articulation, controlling with the lips, which is a carry-over pattern fromtheir first languages. By contrast, American speakers of English use the jaw to control. For adult-learners, mouth movement patterns can make learning a new accent … Continue reading → Learning English
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
It’s not easy to locate young adult books with transgender characters or topics using the library catalog, so we have put together a bibliography of these resources. Included are guides to YA transgender literature as well as fiction and nonfiction about transgender characters and people. Other sources for transgender literature include: – American Library Association [...]
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
You need to exAGGERate to stAGGER me. Andy. The Spelling Blog
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
If you have five years teaching at the 9-12 level please reply if you have experienced a student with minor bleeding, i.e. nose or lip and you have sent them to the bathroom nearest your classroom at least once. This includes P.E. teachers who may have sent their students to the lockeroom restroom. Teacher Forums [...]
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Why do we teach children math? In the fall, I introduced everyone to our homeschool store and our FREE printable money. Our homeschool store is an adaptation from my public school classroom. It teaches children how to earn money, save money and count money. If I didn’t homeschool, I would definitely use a “family store” [...]
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
I recently caved and set up a twitter account (I have yet to tweet, so no one can find me. I’ll work that) and stumbled across this site. Its a twitter of the Civil War. It sounds really weird but they actually use impressive quotes from old letters and speeches made by marginal figures as [...]
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
I realize it has been ages since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve been keeping myself busy! I’m now hard at work preparing lectures for my upcoming course. I’ll be teaching non-science first year undergraduates all about microbes. Balancing this with research has taken up most of my time and brain power, so I’ve let [...]
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