Category: Teaching Tips
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Back-to-school in the acquisition-driven language classroom
Why is back-to-school so hard? After 10 years of back-to-school first-class jitters, I’m facing an August that for the first time won’t include fresh starts with new students. No bubbly excitement thinking about what the year will bring and how to improve on lessons learned in years past. In my first fall as a stay-at-home…
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Low-Tech Teaching: Is it possible in 2024?
I’ve been teaching for a decade. When I first began in 2014, students had phones. Most grades were getting one-to-one devices. All classes had SmartBoards. But it was different. The hunched-shoulders classic phone-addiction pose wasn’t the norm in the hallways yet. You could walk through the halls and see students writing on paper, engaging in…