When teaching themes and related vocabulary, have students describe seasons in their home countries (when teaching weather); have them talk about folktales and fables from their home cultures (when ...
Kelly Hill instructed her class of middle schoolers to talk. "I want to hear a rumble in the room," she said. "Everybody should be talking." Four students in a cluster occasionally wove Spanish words ...
The number of non-English speaking students in Springfield City Schools has more than quadrupled — up 350 percent in four years — including hundreds of Haitian immigrants, prompting the district to ...
The Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) microcredential is designed for students who have initial or professional teacher certification and are seeking to obtain an additional ...
The Rockefeller Institute wants to see schools with students who are least fluent receive more aid for English instruction.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Arizona has not violated federal laws that require schools to help students who do not speak, read or write English. Despite the federal mandates, ...
QUINCY — Quincy Public Schools plans to hire a teacher for English language learners in the 2024-25 year, but what the program looks like for K-12 students still needs to be determined. The district’s ...
For some elementary students at Jackson Avenue School in Mineola, math lessons are taught early in the day, in English. Later that same day, a switch occurs: Those students learn about Machu Picchu ...
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - When New Beginnings for Refugees in Wausau helps house a refugee family, it’s not just moving them in and their work is done, each family has different needs including education.
Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...
A school year’s worth of short, accessible image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of writing. By The Learning Network Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to ...
Errors and mistakes are common in the classroom and in education. And I’ve published many posts about them. Today, educators share their strategies for handling errors made by students in their ...