Paired Texts: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” and Ilya Kaminsky’s “We Lived Happily During the War” | huffenglish.com
Robert Frost (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress) and Ilya Kaminsky (Slowking)
I have to admit to a love/hate relationship with Robert Frost’s poetry stemming from the fact that I wrote a research paper on symbolism in his poetry as a senior in high school. That kind of thing will put anyone off, and it didn’t help that I had what I’d consider now to be an inarguable thesis (essentially it was, yes, he uses symbolism—not much of…
This November California voters may assign our state courts some unwelcome homework: Politico’s California Playbook notes that several different education-right initiatives are circulating. All would add to our state constitution a right to “high-quality” public schools or education. That’s arguably useful because California’s constitutional right to education has never been defined to set a particular quality standard. But failing to define that standard for the courts will set them (and the policy) up for failure.
California’s constitution devotes all of Article IX to education, and the California Supreme Court has held since Serrano v. Priest I (1971) 5 Cal. 3d…
What can educators do to improve student learning? Here is where Culturally Responsive Teaching comes into play.
Culturally Responsive Teaching is also called Culturally Relevant Teaching. Nowadays, educators aim to implement Culturally Responsive Teaching rather than Traditional Teaching Methods.
Essentially, the main purpose of implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching strategies in ESL classrooms is to create an inclusive, safe, and immersive educational environment.
The Importance of Culturally Responsive Teaching
There are so many different approaches to teaching. To name a few, we have student-centred, self-paced, teacher-centred, and many more.
However, for Culturally Responsive Teaching, educators revise their instruction to help diverse…
Are you an ESL teacher looking for ideas and ESL games to spice up your lesson plans? Have you been searching high and low to break up the monotony in your classroom?
Fret not! Here at ESL Resources & Activities – English Teaching 101, we got your back!
Let’s face it, teaching English as a second language is hard. Very much so. And frankly? The same can be said from the students’ perspective as well; learning ESL is not exactly anyone’s favorite pastime, especially for kids and teenagers.
To combat this ever-pertinent problem, many teachers embrace gaming in the classroom.…
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Manitoba’s teachers’ union is raising concerns about proposed legislation that would create a new process to address educator misconduct — but an organization that advocates for children’s safety says those concerns are misguided.
General counsel Monique St. Germain said the Canadian Center for Child Protection was puzzled by issues the Manitoba Teachers’ Society had taken with the Education Administration Amendment Act, also known as Bill 35, which was introduced in the legislature on Tuesday.
“We see this as a really positive step in the right direction to help Manitoba processes and procedures for the discipline of teachers to be more…