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Teaching from Home and Still Making a Difference: Meet Katharine from 51Talk

EdNews Daily

I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. She graduated Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2001 and went on to earn her certificate in TEFL from Via Lingua in Guadalajara, Mexico. Katharine, can you please tell us a little bit about your background? About Katharine.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

8] Send an email or text within the days leading up to school so that you have at least some connection before you meet them.[9] Early Years: An International Research Journal, 2003, 23(1), pp. Educational Review, 2001, 53(1), pp. How Can Teachers Help Families Go Back to School? NSW Department of Education. Kyriacou, C.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

This has implications for agency and ownership as knowledge that is created by and for the organization may be perceived as being owned by the organization (Ende & Lungsford, 2001). Through group filtering and curating, documents become a record of the group’s content knowledge or shared cognition (Cannon-Bower & Salas, 2001).

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Will Philadelphia Education Survive?

Philly Teacher

Overflow crowd from the August 15, 2013 SRC meeting. Here is a run-down: 2001. My colleagues and I survive a number of meetings with various District staff who have no answers about the future of our jobs or our school community. August 2002. I move to Philadelphia immediately after graduating from college. June 2013.

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An upscale Florida auction yields millions for local preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

Since 2001, the upscale auction, part of Collier County’s annual Naples Winter Wine Festival, has raised more than $176 million for local children’s nonprofits, including dozens that benefit the children of Immokalee’s farmworkers, according to the Naples Children & Education Foundation, which hosts the festival.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

Pursuing a “sense of success”: New teachers explain their career decisions, American Educational Research Journal 40 (3) (2003), pp. 2001) Teacher efficacy: Capturing an elusive construct, Teaching and Teacher Education 17 (2001), pp. New York: Free, 2003. Source Notes (in order of use) Johnson, S.M. & & Hoy, A.W.