Some of my best teachers when I was a kid were the strictest. They ran their classes with clear expectations and clear consequences. Everyone knew where the lines were and few dared to cross them. The classes were, as a result, quite efficient and also, surprisingly, a lot of fun because those great teachers used …
We all want our students to learn and most of us want our students to have fun doing it. That is why teachers try to come up with activities that are both educational and fun. Fun, educational activities can be incredibly effective. When fun, educational activities work: These activities can also be miserable. When an …
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Our strong students make our lives so much easier in the classroom.They work hard.They are polite, usually.They are interested in whatever we are doing.They answer all of our questions.They are role models for our weaker students. Then there are the weaker students. They sit there and don’t do anything. They stare into space.They draw on the tables …
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Teachers have a lot to do in any given class. There are lots of administrative things that need to get done. There are many different students with many different needs. Unexpected things come up. Life happens. It is not unusual for students to have to wait around a bit during class. The waiting around though …
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Teachers like to talk. Unfortunately, for our students, we often talk too much. There is plenty of research out there showing that students only remember small portions of what they hear their teachers saying in the classroom. Even your best students who go on pretending they are paying attention longer after they are not stop …
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Have you ever watched a bunch of students play a game on their own?If you haven’t, try this experiment.Get a group of younger elementary students to sit on the floor, put a board game in the middle, and say go.Now there are exceptions to this. Some groups of kids will pull the game out and …
When I first started teaching English language learners in Taiwan, the students fooled me a lot. I have grown wise to their tricks.I thought that when the students were looking at me, nodding their heads, they were all listening. I was wrong. Half of them were listening, The other half were nodding because the kid …
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Jump straight to a section: ESL Teaching Strategies These strategies are born out of over 15 years of research and experience with English Learners. Many include free resources you can use today. ESL Teaching Activities These evidence-based activity ideas used by many of the top experts in the field are both engaging and effective. Grade …
Better Reading Can Mean a Better Future The better an ELL student reads, the better that student generally does in school. That’s great for the students who read well, and not great for the ones who don’t. Teaching English language learners who struggle with reading how to read can be very difficult. Considering many teachers …
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Download the Assessment Click the button below to get a free copy of the assessment to use with your students. Why This ESL Assessment Is So Useful This assessment includes the following sections and helps give you practical, actionable data for each language domain. There is also a tracking sheet that makes it easy to gather …
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Some students like school and some students don’t. What is the secret to turning our ELLs on to the love of learning? It may have a lot to do with basic human nature. Let’s take a look. Ice Cream or Brussels Sprouts For some children, school is a bowl of ice cream; for others, it’s …
Motivating ELLs – Pain, Pleasure, and Growth Mindset Read More »
Parents want their kids to do things more quickly. Unfortunately, most kids don’t. Parents then get creative. That’s when teachers get nervous. Kids are always dragging their feet, finding other things to do on the way from here to there, needing just one more Lego piece, one more minute, one more something, before they will …
CAREFUL: How to Use Competition to Motivate ESL Students Read More »
Teaching is difficult. If we look take a brave look at our students, and ourselves, we can better inspire our students, and possibly even inspire ourselves.
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