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

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. Prior to my lessons, I log-in to the 51Talk Teaching Platform “Air Class,” check my internet connection, and enter the classroom in a punctual fashion. I’m up by 4:30 or 5:00 and am typically teaching by 5:30.

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Just Wanderful! Living Books Are Back!

The Daring Librarian

Not any of our iBooks, MacBook Pros, eMacs (2003), or brand spanking new iMacs. The new apps have updated teacher activities you can download as PFD''s - Here''s an example: Living BooksL Classroom Activities Overview from gwyneth jones Right away, I was really tempted to spend $4.99 insert creative interaction animation idea here).with

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The Assessment Range: Using Data To Meaningfully Affect Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

The Assessment Range: Using Data In The Classroom To Meaningfully Affect Learning. Among the challenges of assessment, this concept–as it applies to formal academic classrooms designed to promote mastery of Common Core or similar standards–is near the top. by Terry Heick. ” Applied how?

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? “The tutor taught her some of the basic skills that the child wasn’t getting in her whole language classroom,” he said.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Johnson had no intention of giving up retying kindergarteners’ shoes and ducking into classrooms just because she also had to manage federal programs and IT. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day. Habari gani!”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

More on the Republicans’ tax plans – Via Education Week : “New Senate Tax Plan Doubles Teachers’ Deduction for Buying Classroom Supplies.” Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.” ” Immigration and Education.