Teaching English and In the Line of Fire
I’m sure you’ve all heard the news of the shooting at the American Civic Association, N.Y. A lone gunman Jiverly Voong, an immigrant, slaughtering 13 people, many fellow English language learners. I...
View ArticleAfricentric Schools – A brilliant idea?
I heard whispers of this when I was leaving my Public School teaching job in Toronto 4 years ago. But I never thought it would become a reality. Low and behold it did! What am I going on about? Well,...
View ArticleThe Writing Process vs the Writing Product
During my own teacher training and in my professional development throughout the years, whenever “writing” as a skill comes up — inevitably all the talk is about “The Writing Process”. While I do...
View ArticleTechnology liberating Teachers
RSS to PDF = Print your Blog! Interested? View more HERE. Also – watch US Now for a fuller description of how technology can empower people. As teachers, we are by default in many cases, operatives for...
View ArticleWhat is “education” all about?
Lately, I’ve been “evaluating” a lot of teachers for the new “Teaching English in English – TET program. Been rather frustrated along with many teachers and I really needed some inspiration today. I...
View ArticleTwitter – Love it / Hate it!
Okay, it has been 6+ months (and 1,200 tweets later) that I’ve been on twitter and prompted by a discussion I had with my Practicum students about this medium (I was urging them to form/make their...
View ArticleMusical Appreciation Lesson/Day
Music is a wonderful way to get students learning English and producing language. See all our resources about music HERE. Also, see Rachel’s lovely post on the same topic, only using music videos! This...
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