by Justin | Feb 15, 2019 | ELL
Stop Calling Kids "Lazy" Cut to last summer. It’s a hot, humid afternoon in Chiang Mai. The leaking air con blasts wafts of musky moisture from the outside. Our desks are in a square around the teacher. We’re reading nonsense Thai words so we can practice middle...
by Justin | Jan 28, 2019 | Co Teaching
My Experience as a New Presenter It’s always a bit scary trying something new. Ever since I hopped on the Twitter bandwagon, I started engaged with like minded professionals in the field, specially with ELL related pedagogy. It was the summer, so I had the opportunity...
by Justin | Dec 24, 2018 | Co Teaching
2018 Co-Teaching Reflection We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience. – John Dewey It has been about five months since I started Co-Teaching with elementary teachers. Even though I’ve only been Co-Teaching for a few months, I’m...
by Justin | Nov 27, 2018 | ELL, English Language, Language Learning
CLIL Workshop Reflection I’ve learned a tremendous amount over the past year and a half working as an ELL teacher. I’ve ready over a dozen different textbooks, attended a variety of workshops, and was introduced to a slew of new like minded professionals on twitter...
by Justin | Nov 7, 2018 | ELL, English Language, Language Learning
ELL Strategies for Specialists In my experience, when teachers and administrators talk about support and Co-Teaching, they’re almost always referring to classroom teachers. What about supporting our specialist teachers? In P.E, students need to know names of bones and...
by Justin | Oct 17, 2018 | Language Learning, Teaching
The Power of Can-Do I had a Co-Teaching reflection post outlined for this week, but I was inspired to write something a bit different and on the fly. Conversations with teachers can often escalate to something like this: Teacher: (clearly frustrated) “This...
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