Bending Over Backward

Teaching about Idioms

Have you ever told a student she "dropped the ball" on an assignment? Do you encourage your students by telling them to "reach for the stars" or "go for the gold"? Your native English-speaking students likely...

Author: Melanie W. Greene
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Topics: ELL/ESL/ESOL Teaching

Tags: Writing Oral Language

Service-Learning

Research Summary

Service-learning is a teaching and learning method that connects meaningful, community service experiences with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility (Shumer & Duckenfield, 2004). Learning...

Author: Shirley Theriot
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Topics: Curriculum Family and Community School Culture/Climate

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation Parent Involvement Service Learning Research Summary Community Involvement

Differentiating Instruction for ELLs

The core tenets of differentiation should guide our education of ELLs.

His first name was Mauricio, and he was from Uruguay. As a class assignment, one of his teachers in his new school in the United States asked students to construct Venn diagrams about themselves, showing how the...

Author: David H. Vawter & Kelly M. Costner
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Topics: Differentiated Instruction ELL/ESL/ESOL Teaching

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Habla con ellos—Talk to them: Latinas/os, achievement, and the middle grades

Moving bilingual children beyond subordinated categories toward full engagement in relevant and authentic learning that embraces their communities.

Our faculty in the Education Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte often spends time discussing issues we see within our middle grades program, including with our undergraduate teacher candidates...

Author: Spencer Salas, Jeanneine P. Jones, Theresa Perez, Paul G. Fitchett, & Scott Kissau
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Topics: ELL/ESL/ESOL

Tags: Student Engagement Multilingual/Multicultural Parent Involvement Student Achievement Community Involvement

Show, Don't Tell: Activities for Image-Driven Writing

Today's students must be able to learn and express themselves in myriad ways, yet reading, writing, and speaking remain the primary vehicles. Thus, language arts still...

Author: Carol Baldwin
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy Teaching

Tags: Writing

Building the Bridge to Middle School

What do you remember from your middle school or junior high days? Your test scores? Your grades? Probably not. You are more likely to remember special occasions and events that made a particularly positive...

Author: Elyse Daniel, Tom Grudowski, and Philip Brown
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Topics: Family and Community Transitions to/from Middle School

Tags: Transition to Middle School Extracurricular Activities

Treat a Student ... Score One for Goethe

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.” When he wrote those words, could Goethe have foreseen a...

Author: Doris E. Dempsey
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Topics: Classroom Management Teaching Young Adolescent Development

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation

Easy 10-Minute Review Strategies

When using a direct teaching strategy, it is important to keep students engaged and check for understanding of the ideas and concepts presented. Eric Jensen, a leader in brain-based learning, claims that it is...

Author: Jill Spencer
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Topics: Teaching

Tags: Jill Spencer Learning Styles New Teachers

Heart over Head: Motivating Reluctant Learners

In the early 1970s, Charles Silberman’s book Crisis in the Classroom rocked the education landscape with its verdict that schools were sterile, dry places of learning. Although the claims of the book should...

Author: Charles Beaman
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Topics: Teaching

Tags: Student Motivation

Developing Collaboration Skills

Team teachers must develop respectful relationships with each another if they wish their students to exhibit positive relationships with others in their group projects. One cannot model that which one doesn't...

Author: Jill Spencer
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Topics: Teaching Teaming

Tags: Cooperative Learning Jill Spencer

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