19.
May
2010
Wednesday
07:44
Family Tree
As I was flipping through our textbook, I came across a section about family trees. We use family trees to trace genealogy of our ancestors and ...
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22.
April
2010
Thursday
07:27
Earth Day
Today is officially Earth Day and it got me thinking about how ELL students relate to this day. Do their native countries recognize this day? ...
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22.
April
2010
Thursday
07:23
Testing ELL Students
I was reading the chapter about assessing ELL students and it made me think of one way I saw ELL students being assessed in a classroom. The ...
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20.
April
2010
Tuesday
07:50
VETO!!
I am so pleased to say that Governor Crist listened to the people and vetoed SB6! It was said that over 65,000 people sent emails to Crist telling ...
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14.
April
2010
Wednesday
07:38
Crist
Currently there is a lot of chaos regarding SB6 and how it would destroy Florida education! I am so disappointed that our ...
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13.
April
2010
Tuesday
02:23
Haiti Student
While I was observing in the high school ESOL classroom, I noticed that a couple of the students seemed to be very quiet and reserved. They also ...
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13.
April
2010
Tuesday
02:22
High School ESOL
I recently went to Naples High School to observe an ESOL level 1 class. It was quite an interesting experience and I learned a lot of things I ...
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06.
April
2010
Tuesday
08:26
Interesting View
After completing the linguistics article, I found a viewpoint of an author that I thought was very interesting. This author believes that ...
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05.
April
2010
Monday
10:59
Best Situation
I wanted to add to my earlier post about my experience in the middle school ESOL classroom. Our textbook says that the optimal conditions ...
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02.
April
2010
Friday
02:49
Coloring books
At the YMCA each year during spring break, we offer free water safety to anyone in the community who would like to participate. We offer it at ...
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30.
March
2010
Tuesday
06:39
Sign Language
Today I had to communicate a message to our Spanish speaker cleaning staff at work. They speak very little English and are the nicest people that ...
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28.
March
2010
Sunday
10:53
A Breakthrough!
In an early posting I talked about the boy in my swim lessons class that was crying the entire lesson and I could not figure out why he was so ...
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26.
March
2010
Friday
05:46
Middle School Diversity
Today I went to Gulfview Middle School to observe an ESOL classroom. I was suprised to find out that they only have one ESOL class throughout ...
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24.
March
2010
Wednesday
09:18
Turn-Taking
In order for oral language communication to be successful, the participants in the conversation need to understand the rules of how ...
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19.
March
2010
Friday
05:43
Communication
Yesterday I went to a Kindergarten classroom and was asked to teach a science lesson about water cohesion. The students had to put water ...
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16.
March
2010
Tuesday
04:15
Silent Period
The silent period is a time where an English language learner is trying to help learn the new language by simply listening to those ...
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14.
March
2010
Sunday
09:56
Misunderstanding
Yesterday was the first day back for youth swim lessons. I was teaching a class of three year olds and everything was going great! Then one of my ...
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12.
March
2010
Friday
05:20
Grammar
I encountered one of the most frustrating situations today at work. I know that our country is the midst of making a huge transition of ...
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11.
March
2010
Thursday
12:17
Language Skills
Today I worked with my student on his language skills and comprehension. His teacher asked me to help him look at four pictures and be able to ...
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