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10 Secrets to Teaching English Language Learners
There’s a lot that goes into teaching, especially when teaching to students whose first language is other than English. This post will give you 10 tried and true secrets to teaching ELLs that you can use for the rest of your career. Without further ado, let’s dive into the 10 secrets of teaching English language…
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How You Can Use Task Cards in Your Classroom Today
Task cards are incredible. Full stop! They can be used in a variety of ways, in any of your lessons, with just about ANY of your students. You can print them out, shuffle them together, display them on the board digitally, hide them in random places for scavenger hunts. The lists are endless.
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Smartphone Addiction and The Importance of a Healthy Information Diet
“You are what you eat,”, at least that’s that old saying. Being conscious of what we put down our gullets can mean the difference between living healthily or not. So, we tend to widely acknowledge that eating large quantities of junk food can hurt us, both physiologically as well as psychologically – it’s all connected,…
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How to Get Kids to Read More Critically using a 3-step Process
by: Landon S. Seigler “An author,” writes Mortimer Adler in ‘How to Read a Book’, “starts with the skeleton and tries to cover it up.” Mortimer Adler What does it really mean to be a ‘reader’? Deep reading is not settling for the surface of the text. It is unearthing what the author has attempted…