Tag: classrooms
Queering English Language Classrooms
Working with queer English learners requires close attention to their emotions and feelings, prior to or in conjunction with the teaching of language and literacy. Queer pedagogy does more than “good” instructional strategies and...
A Futile War
The War on Drugs
In 1998, the United Nations decided that it was going to eradicate drugs from planet Earth by 2008. The project was doomed to failure from the start. Human beings have been...
Managing Diversity
“I know that I don’t have a background in working with English
language learners, but aren’t you using far too many videos in your
class?” said the district level administrator. “You need to make...
Get Real, Teacher! -Virtual Reality Teaching
Rene Gadelha believes that only careful implementation will realize the promise of virtual reality in education
Revolutionizing Education
Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to...
Castilian Spanish Rules in Catalan Classrooms
A Catalan court has ruled that if a family in Catalonia wants more hours of instruction in Castilian Spanish, the school must comply. However, the ruling goes on to do more than make differentiated...