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Title: Integrating Culture in All Modes: A Noël Unit for Novices
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Here is a timely blog post describing a Christmas unit for novice French learners. The unit addresses two challenges that are likely to come up in a culture unit about Christmas: novice students don’t have many tools to talk about others, and in a diverse class, asking students to describe and compare their own December/January holiday traditions could make some students uncomfortable. Both issues are addressed by using a role-play.
Read a description of the unit and access linked authentic resources here: http://madameshepard.com/?p=1041
Here is a related article with suggestions for how to teach December holidays in an inclusive manner: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2015/11/teaching_the_holidays_the_december_dilemma.html
Source: Madame's Musings
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Title: Tasting Stations with Turrones
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From http://www.creativelanguageclass.com/
Here is a good unit for this time of year, based around turrones in Cuba. The series of activity make use of several different authentic resources, and of course the concept of tasting stations could be adapted to other foods at other times of the year.
Read the blog post at http://www.creativelanguageclass.com/authres/culture/christmas/tasting-station/
Source: Creative Language Class
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Title: ESEA Rewrite Could Serve as 'Huge Civil Rights' Bill for ELLs, Some Advocates Say
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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2015/12/esea_rewrite_could_serve_as_hu.html
ESEA Rewrite Could Serve as 'Huge Civil Rights' Bill for ELLs, Some Advocates Say
By Corey Mitchell
December 2, 2015
The proposed rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act could serve as a "huge civil rights protection" for the nation's 5-million plus English-language learners, some ELL advocates say.
The most significant change in the legislation would shift accountability for English-learner students from Title III (the English-language acquisition section of the ESEA) to Title I (where everyone else's accountability is).
The legislation would do more to hold all schools, not just those with significant ELL enrollment, accountable for the education of non-native English-speaking students.
Read the full article here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2015/12/esea_rewrite_could_serve_as_hu.html
Source: Education Week
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Title: Upcoming Webinars from Primary Source
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Primary Source is a nonprofit organization that works to advance global education in schools. Teachers seeking a strong social justice component in their curricula will find resources and professional development opportunities galore. Here are two upcoming webinars of interest:
Engaging Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Students & Families in Elementary Schools
January 27 - March 1, 2016
This online course provides a theoretical and practical foundation for culturally responsive teaching of English language learners in the elementary school setting. We will examine how young immigrant students experience school; the demographic and diversity profile of Massachusetts districts; cross-cultural communication and its implications for teaching and learning; and effective strategies for elementary schools to engage immigrant and refugee families. You will have the opportunity to reflect on your own teaching practice, apply course skills and strategies, and receive feedback from peers and instructor.
More information: https://www.primarysource.org/for-teachers/courses/engaging-culturally--linguistically-diverse-students--families-in-elementary-schools?srctid=1&erid=366104&trid=7c4a3dc2-ae22-4967-9164-e46651ff1af2
Global Understanding in Action: Human Rights, Educational Access & Gender Equity
January 13-February 9, 2016
How can we engage students around global topics in meaningful ways that encourage them to become change-makers? This online course explores critical global topics – human rights, educational access, and gender equity – through the lens of social action. Through readings, videos, interactive web-based activities, and discussion forums, you will become familiar with key issues related to these topics and learn how to integrate these themes into classroom teaching and school initiatives. At the same time, you will examine case studies of how K-12 teachers have implemented curricular activities and projects to turn student learning into student action, and develop an action project to support students’ transformation from global learners to global citizens.
More information: https://www.primarysource.org/for-teachers/courses/global-understanding-in-action-human-rights-educational-access--gender-equity?srctid=1&erid=366104&trid=7c4a3dc2-ae22-4967-9164-e46651ff1af2
Visit the Primary Source website to learn more about the organization and to find additional resources about global education: http://www.primarysource.org/
Source: Primary Source
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Title: Reading Skills
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From http://elt-resourceful.com/
Here is a recent blog post from teacher Rachael Roberts which breaks down reading skills that we often talk about (prediction, reading for gist, reading for specific information, skimming, and scanning) and then adds some more for us to consider: http://elt-resourceful.com/2015/12/01/what-are-reading-skills-theyre-not-only-what-you-think/
Source: elt-resourceful
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Title: Dictaphrase: A Listening Comprehension Activity
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From http://www.anthonyteacher.com/
From the Anthony Teacher blog, here is an activity that helps students focus on meaning when they listen in their L2 and that also teaches them the skill of paraphrasing: http://www.anthonyteacher.com/blog/dictaphrase-a-listening-comprehension-activity
Source: Anthony Teacher
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Title: Comprehensible Input via Infographics
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Kristen Lindahl writes, “Technology has enabled teachers to provide new, engaging ways to provide comprehensible input. Applications such as youtube.com, wherein teachers can find videos for almost any topic, to PowerPoint, which allows teachers to outline information and add graphics, video, and animation, have added dimension to comprehensible input in classrooms. Another new way to synthesize concepts to provide comprehensible input to learners is via the use of infographics. Infographics have long been used by authors and educators to analyze or show relationships via maps, graphs, time lines, and so on. Now, with many different free online tools, infographics have a new look and many different options.”
Get ideas for using infographics and find some resources for creating and finding them at http://blog.tesol.org/comprehensible-input-via-infographics/
Source: TESOL Blog
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Title: Activity Idea: Agree or Disagree?
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From http://www.creativelanguageclass.com
Here is an activity idea that focuses on interpersonal communication between pairs of students, encourages higher-level thinking, and can be adapted to nearly any topic: http://www.creativelanguageclass.com/activities/modes-skills/speaking/agree-or-disagree/
Source: Creative Language Class
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Title: 5 Things to Remember in Early Elementary FL Classes
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From https://senorfernie.wordpress.com
Are you new to teaching young language learners? Here are some guidelines for success based on one teacher’s experience at this level, plus an outline of one of his typical classes: https://senorfernie.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/5-things-to-remember-in-early-elementary-fl-classes/
Source: Senorfernie
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Title: Website for “Third Culture Kids”
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Third Culture Kids are people who have spent a significant part of their childhoods in a culture outside of their parents’. Edutopia recently ran an article about what teachers can do to best serve third culture kids in their classrooms, which you can read here: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/integrating-third-culture-kids-classroom-lauren-owen. The article refers to a website dedicated to third culture kids, TCKids, available here: http://tckid.com/. The site serves as a platform for TCK’s to communicate from around the world, and it also provides more information about TCK’s.
Source: TCKids
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