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

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Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

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“It was really looking yourself in the mirror and saying, ‘Which four in 10 students don’t deserve to learn to read?'” Silva didn’t know anything about how children learn to read or how they should be taught, so he started searching online. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.”

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

The Hechinger Report

He wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, only not too far off the ground, because heights were scary. She would have to convince them by following through on her promises, helping kids like Ricky learn to read. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. he Brown v.

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