Tag: methodology
Scaffolding Success
One of the tools teachers of multilingual learners have at their disposal to move learning forward for their students is scaffolding. The term has been around a long time, introduced by Wood, Bruner, and...
Collaborative Planning: Never Having to Go It Alone
This experience gave me the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues I don’t usually get the opportunity to...
Reading Foundations
Educators are often left unprepared to meet the unique needs of the...
Practical PD
In the midst of the pandemic, teachers are stretched incredibly thin....
What We Say and How We Say It
Even behind masks or through a screen, the language that educators use is one of the most powerful tools available to build a relationship with students, support their identities, and scaffold their...
Rebound: Turning Our Attention to Acceleration
Pandemic teaching was hard. It stretched and pulled us. We worried about our students and their well-being. But we did it. We supported students’ learning to...
How Can Drama Improve Language Learning?
Drama is a naturally expressive and creative medium that is centered around the communication...
Is Planning Key to Task-Based Learning?
There is a general assumption by researchers and educators that learning after performing an action—i.e., enactment—creates better memory of the action, as compared to reading about it, hearing about it, or observing someone else...
A Statistically Significant Success Story
Kate Kinsella and Theresa Hancock offer a compelling story about a successful
program that put hundreds of adolescent English learners on the pathway to success
According to an assessment by the Institute of Education Sciences,...
Making S-PACE for Grammar
Manuela Gonzalez-Bueno introduces a new model to teach second-language grammar
The complexities of teaching and learning a foreign language have been greatly explored over the last decades. By acknowledging that, in addition to grammatical competence, pragmatic,...