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Using simple online tools, like Google Forms or Microsoft Forms, allows us to make far deeper connections than you might initially imagine.
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Culture is more than artefacts, rituals, and traditions. It is derived from the understanding we acquire through living together as a community and our connections to others within it.
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Vocabulary is probably the key type of knowledge necessary for any language use, because if words to express concepts are not known, all syntactic and discourse knowledge is of little use.
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It is important for teachers to realize that not all newcomers come to us with the same background, especially when it comes to literacy.
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Each learner has lived a unique experience that shaped their perspective and learning needs.
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For those educators who are teaching multilingual language learners (MLLs), body language is an important topic to address.
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8 Tips for Refreshing Assignment Guidelines
10/24/2022
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As a school leader, you are placed in front of a crowd on an ongoing basis.
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Many people equate policy with law and politics—something that brings to mind lawmakers and politicians rather than educators. However, teachers are central to policy implementation in a number of ways.
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What’s in a label? In this article, I reflect on the labels that we use in our field to refer to those learning English as an additional language, and how those labels matter.
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The complex nature of identities and how conflicts occur between our self-attributed and other-ascribed identities.
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Supplemental education services (SES) ensure that public schools facilitate their most essential function: to provide every child with an education.
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Teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) to multilingual learners (MLLs) can be very challenging because STEM vocabularies can be very complex for even the native English speaker.
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Online Self- and Peer-Assessment for Teacher Professional Development: A Case Study of the Proces...
8/22/2022
This case study explored the process of English as a second language (ESL) teachers’ participation in online self- and peer assessment (OSA and OPA) during an online teacher professional development (TPD) program focusing on task design and their perception of the subsequent impact on their under... -
English language students want and need real-life conversation practice.
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Every year, Wiley fellows collaborate on specific projects that advance teaching and learning across higher education.
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There is clear and mounting evidence that gifted education must address the serious challenges associated with the underidentification and underservicing of diverse populations of gifted students.
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They are three simple questions that are vital to school improvement and to teacher growth.
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This blog post contains three strategies for formative assessment and feedback and some practical classroom-based activities to apply these strategies with your English learners.