A Scaffolding Strategy to Help Experienced ELLs Express Complex Ideas This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a paragraph and to link one idea to the next.

This scaffolding strategy gives students explicit instruction on how to develop their ideas for each part of a paragraph & effectively link one idea to the next.

“We want students spending cognitive energy on what they know, not trying to figure out how to start.” ✏️

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Choosing a Language Focus (Example: Passive Voice) By Dr. Ruslana Westerlund Teachers often ask me questions which language feature to focus on. This question comes from feeling overwhelmed with the student needs and all the options of the language…

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Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom By modeling AI, teachers can demonstrate to students the benefits and shortcomings of the technology.

Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom
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10 Actions Teachers Can Take Now That Trump Is President (Opinion) On Day 1 of his second term, Trump issued orders that could negatively affect students. Here’s how to support them.

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Have him check lib.ru - it has a free collection of books in Russian.

I think it’s important to teach writing vs just assigning writing.

Ideas from Dr. Ernest Morrell for engaging students with choice and voice via songs. #MNLiteracySymposium #EduSky

What I Want to Say About “Saying” Verbs Today a teacher reached out to me with a question about an entry point into language features in narratives. I asked her what goals she had for her lesson which was to develop character interaction…

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What Educators Should Know About Educating Emerging Multilingual Students: 8 Essentials Emerging Multilingual Students (EMs) bring to our schools, communities, and the broader society a wealth of cultural experiences and…

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Try having students create a meme for the topic. See how creative they can be!!

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Teaching Students to Find Definitions of Vocab in Texts I’ve recently been reviewing research on teaching vocabulary and one research article I found talked about the dangers of pre-teaching vocabulary because it doesn’t lead to student agen…

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English Learners With Disabilities: The Rules Schools Have to Follow Schools can't force English learners with disabilities to choose between special ed. and language instruction—and other tips from OCR.

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We can empower caregivers by providing these great questions they could potentially ask about their children.

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Hi Millie! This is from a blog written by Ruslana Westerlund. I don’t have a video, but she shares quite a bit on teaching language through a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) lens on her blog.

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Moving Beyond Because and So: The Language of Causality I love going to conferences and feel that I have a privilege to go because so many teachers can’t take time off from teaching. My favorite part is meeting teachers face to face whom I know fr…

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Great idea! I’d like to be included.

HS ESL teacher here! Looking forward to connecting with other educators! #EduSky #MLchat