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Title: Goals and Dreams Unit for Spanish IV
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From https://elmundodebirch.wordpress.com
Here is a Spanish teacher’s description of her Spanish IV unit dealing with goals and dreams, including suggestions for authentic resources to use: https://elmundodebirch.wordpress.com/about/
Source: El Mundo de Birch
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Title: Study Links Teacher Training, Improved Student Writing Skills
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From https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170124152102.htm
Study links teacher training, improved student writing skills
January 24, 2017
A study from the University of California, Irvine has found a correlation between teacher professional development and improvements in academic writing by English learners in grades 7-12.
Students of teachers who participated in the Pathway Project -- 46 hours of training in the "cognitive strategies" instructional approach -- scored higher on an academic writing assessment and had higher pass rates on the California High School Exit Exam than students whose teachers did not receive the training.
Read the full article at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170124152102.htm
Source: ScienceDaily
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Title: Teaching Listening
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From https://eltgeek.wordpress.com
In preparation for an Electronic Village Online (http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708567/FrontPage) session on listening, Olya Sergeeva summarizes three articles and provides sample activities that exemplify three reasons for teaching listening in this blog post: https://eltgeek.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/teaching-listening-a-summary-of-three-articles/
Source: ELT Stories
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Title: Literacy Partnerships for Families of ELs
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In this guest blog post, Kathy Perret offers three suggestions for encouraging literacy in English learners’ families: http://blog.tesol.org/literacy-partnerships-for-families-of-els/
Source: TESOL
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Title: Five ELT Trends to Watch in 2017
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Kristen Lindahl notes five trends in English language teaching that she anticipates will be important in the coming year: translanguaging, global Englishes, online teacher education, social media for language learning, and advocacy. Read her post at http://blog.tesol.org/five-elt-trends-to-watch-in-2017/
Source: TESOL
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Title: Openwords: Open-Source Platform for Language Learning from Duolingo
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Openwords is a new free open-source platform for learning (and teaching) languages. Problems, lessons, and curricula are user-generated. Learn more about it at https://globalvoices.org/2017/01/31/building-a-sustainable-open-source-platform-for-language-learning/ and access the platform and experiment with it at http://openwords.com/#
Source: Duolingo
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Title: Informed Parent Guide for Immersion Programs
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From https://addalinguablog.com/2017/01/26/introducing-the-informed-parent-guide/
Parents of children in immersion schools may not quite know what to expect. The folks at add.a.lingua have put together a free “informed parent guide,” an email service that includes a “quality program ‘to do’ checklist,” information about language proficiency and immersion program design, frequently asked questions, and more.
Subscribe at https://my.addalingua.com/parent
Source: add.a.lingua
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Title: Resources for Black History Month
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February is Black History Month. Here are some resources for your classroom:
A collection of links to resources from Language magazine: http://languagemagazine.com/2017/01/teacher-resources-black-history-month/
Here are some ideas for your Spanish class, from Minute by Minute Spanish: http://minutebyminutespanish.com/spanish-class-and-black-history-month/
Here are some resources compiled by Larry Ferlazzo: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/01/31/feb-is-black-history-month-here-are-related-resources/
Source: Various
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Title: Say I Love You in 40 Languages
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Celebrate languages this Valentines Day by saying “I love you” in 40 different languages, courtesy of Transparent Language: http://blogs.transparent.com/language-news/2017/02/01/how-to-say-i-love-you-in-40-languages/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: The Importance of Using Proficiency Levels with Students
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From http://leesensei.edublogs.org
Colleen Lee-Hayes writes, “Consider that our kids play, and replay a game trying to get to the next ‘level’ for a new challenge, a new reward or a new option to play. They will play and replay a level trying to get enough points to move up. They will play solo and against each other. They will (as I do with Angry Birds!) seek out cheats on YouTube to help them accomplish tasks they can’t seem to get. And they will do it over and over again until they get there.” By analogy, students will be motivated to advance their proficiency level, more than they will to find out how they’ve done on the latest unit with no reference to overall growth in proficiency.
Read the full blog post at http://leesensei.edublogs.org/2017/01/30/using-proficiency-levels-with-students-i-now-get-why-or-you-dont-play-video-games-just-to-play-do-you/#.WJAeaxDHvaw
Source: Language Sensei
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