Today I got to try my first ever session of coding. It’s funny, we’ve had coding sessions at school where students get to try out different activities involving coding, but I always seem to teach another class or something during those sessions so I was super pumped to finally get to try it out today! […]
Continue readingDigital Literacy; the answer
Before you begin reading this blog, I strongly recommend you take five minutes of your life and visit a pretty awesome comic linked here. If you don’t have five minutes to spare, I’ll summarize; but you do have five minutes of your time but you think you have the answers to everything, then go back […]
Continue readingCyber – Sleuthing
For this week we had the challenge of cyber-sleuthing a classmate, which was a totally enjoyable task. I feel like I am guilty? of being proficient at cyber-sleuthing. Sometimes it’s all to easy living in a smaller city-center to simply look people up and find 50 mutual friends with that person! My partner for this […]
Continue readingLet’s face it..
My focus for this week will be concentrating on the face of my golf club. One thing my husband had noted last time we hit the range was that I seem to be intentionally trying to keep the face of my club in the same spot so that it doesn’t move when I go to […]
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Continue readingWhat have I learned about assessment?
As I look back on my time in ECS 410, I can now see how little I knew about assessment coming into this class. When I first entered this course in Janurary, I thought that I had a handle on the ideas of diagnostic and formative assessments, and hoped this course would help me to … Continue reading What have I learned about assessment?
Continue readingWrapping up the Inquiry
Looking back on when I began my quest of researching engaging EAL students, I can see how misguided I really was. At the beginning of this inquiry project, I believed that EAL students could be a major obstacle for teachers. They can barley speak English, if at all, so how am I supposed to teach … Continue reading Wrapping up the Inquiry
Continue readingInquiry post 5
Today, instead of reading an article on the topic of engaging EAL students I watched a video on the topic. The video, Teachers TV: Engaging EAL Learners, focuses on one teacher in England and her science class, which includes a large group of EAL students. As the teacher goes through her lesson, she is watched … Continue reading Inquiry post 5
Continue readingUsing my inquiry project in the classroom
The interesting thing about my inquiry project is that I didn’t need to use it too much when I actually went into my pre-internship Of the two classes I taught, only one of the students would be classified as an EAL student. So, it made it very difficult to use these strategies in a big … Continue reading Using my inquiry project in the classroom
Continue readingInquiry post 3
As I have gone through the journey of learning about how to engage EAL students in the literature classroom, I have goen through many books that present many similar ideas. If there is one thing that all of these ideas have in common, it is that to properly teach EAL students you need to have … Continue reading Inquiry post 3
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