2016 Spring - ESL Articles
“Education can be
encouraged from the top-down but can only be improved from the ground up”- Sir
Ken Robinson
“We do not learn from experience…we learn from
reflecting on experience.” -John Dewey
ESL
Be
a better writer in 15 minutes: 4 TED-Ed lessons on grammar and word choice - By
Emilie Soffe on May 29, 2014 in TED-Ed Lessons. TED-Ed has put together a list
of four of our favorite grammar and language lessons to get your next piece of
writing in tip-top shape. First, let’s look at the often-confusing comma. What
about the Oxford comma? Keep your nouns away from elongating nominalizations! Use
this little trick to improve your writing: let go of the words “good” and
“bad,” and push yourself to illustrate, elucidate and illuminate your world
with language.
5-Minute
Film Festival: 8 Videos for ELL Classrooms. Videos can be an effective tool for
teaching and learning English (or, for that matter, any academic subject) if
used strategically and not as a "babysitting" device. My colleague
Katie Hull Sypnieski and I wrote a previous post for Edutopia titled Eight Ways To Use Videos With
English-Language Learners that shares instructional strategies for many
kinds of clips. Here are a few of my favorite videos to use with those
exercises.
5
Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn By Katrina Schwartz MARCH 20, 2013
Helping
students learn how to learn: That’s what most educators strive for, and that’s
the goal of inquiry learning. That skill transfers to other academic subject
areas and even to the workplace where employers have consistently said that
they want creative, innovative and adaptive thinkers. Inquiry learning is an
integrated approach that includes kinds of learning: content, literacy,
information literacy, learning how to learn, and social or collaborative
skills. Students think about the choices they make throughout the process and
the way they feel as they learn. Those observations are as important as the
content they learn or the projects they create.
The
advantages of a bilingual brain - 25 December 2015
There's
an increasing amount of scientific research that suggests the extra work
bilingual brains do when translating has additional benefits - especially in
old age.
What
do you think when you look at this speaker? Well, think again. (And then
again.) In this funny, honest, empathetic talk, Yassmin Abdel-Magied challenges
us to look beyond our initial perceptions, and to open doors to new ways of
supporting others.
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