You know when you tell students, “You have five minutes left,” and ten minutes later, they’re still talking? We’ve all
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You know when you tell students, “You have five minutes left,” and ten minutes later, they’re still talking? We’ve all
As students begin to build strength with subject pronouns, they naturally expand into possessive adjectives. However, they often use them
When my good friend Diana, who teaches 9th-grade AP Human Geography, lamented about she had a student line a mile
If you teach beginner ESL, chances are the verb to be is one of the first grammar points you introduce.
How many times have you asked a student a question, and they look at you, shrug, and say… “I don’t
Picture this: You’re introducing classroom objects to your new ESL students. You hold up a flash card, but instead of
It’s the first day of school, and your newcomer ESL students meet you at the door, often with a nervous
If you’ve ever stared at a group of ESL newcomers and wondered, “Where do I even start?” you’re not alone.
Do you have EB students who can’t get the advanced high composite score they need to possibly exit? Or maybe
It is not often that I leave a professional development session thinking, “This reading strategy is definitely the magic bullet.”
New to Texas or teaching EBs? Have questions about TELPAS? Instead of piecing together answers from multiple TEA or district
