Heidi Hayes Jacobs, from Curriculum21, has been doing a stellar job of offering solid ideas for new forms of school and curriculum mapping. Her latest book series on the new literacies sheds light on the merge of traditional and modern practices to empower learners...
I was recently invited to speak about my experiences as an international teacher to an audience of fellow Brazilian teachers. The lecture, organized by my former School of Letters: Language, Linguistics and Literature at PUCRS and held during an annual event called...
When looking for ways to help your ELLs develop and sharpen public speaking skills, a good idea is to have them create animated presentations based on a writing product. This visually rich medium can help students feel more confident about speaking up by infusing...
As our school-wide EAL Department pursued a quest to empower teachers to make content comprehensible for our ELLs at AES Delhi, a great idea came up from the Curriculum Office: What if we created a video that documented the challenges, the social conflicts, the...
Not long ago, I published a unit plan I designed for my ELLs in 8th grade. Please find below the reflection I just wrote about the implementation of such work. Thoughts? Comments? I’d love to read them.
