In my myriad of roles at work, I get to work with new teachers often. When I saw this topic I thought what a great opportunity! Here’s my best new teacher ideas. Plan. As I work with more and more teachers I am absolutely astounded at the number of teachers who don’t have a thoughtful …
I updated what I give my students so they can learn how to do the accents because the amount of time in college class I am willing to devote to this is 0. (Note: For younger learners, I believe it’s important to devote as much time as you need to teach students how to do …
This past week Kicked. My. Butt. Nevertheless, it was quite a productive little week. Monday Because I don’t know how to stop giving myself more work, my massive effort to visit every teacher in his/her classroom to find out how I can help them integrate technology thoughtfully kicked off and I visited 20 teachers. #tired. …
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Great and Timely PD I’m straight off of two days of professional development for Instructional Coaches with Ann Hoffman. She’s amazing and got me thinking about a ton of stuff which I’m not going to talk about right now because the ideas are just swirling too fast in my head to make any sense of …
Work smarter not harder Quizlet has a feature that they call “diagram.” It’s pretty darn cool. You upload a photo and then place dots on it and student identify the dots. The implications for language learners to practice identifying vocabulary are clear. Here I am using it not so much as a “diagram,” but as …
Mad Skills One of the prompts for this topic is “Tell a story about the most positive experience you’ve had as an expert in your subject matter.” I’m not going to tell any of the stories about my actual professional experiences that were positive, but more when I had an adjacent positive experience. In 2003-2004 I …
