By Paula Amadeo — I was at a loss for how to help one of my students. A first-year high school student who had been in the United States for less than 2 months and had an “entering” score for…
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Why Work On Feedback?
By Sarah Cunningham — Feedback is daunting to most instructors and often to students as well. Time after time, the same questions and frustrations emerge: From teachers: How do I find the time to give meaningful feedback to everyone? How…
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OIHS Dance
By Yii Shinn (Nico) Chen — This year at Oakland International High School, I was asked to teach a three-week dance post-session course that also embeds English language learning and multimedia skills. As an English teacher, teaching dance for the…
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