Fonville ESL Teacher: “This is the most rewarding job”
When Mrs. Dana Patterson decided to teach, she didn’t think it would include helping her students during a major life transition. “It wasn’t only about learning a new language. I […]
When Mrs. Dana Patterson decided to teach, she didn’t think it would include helping her students during a major life transition. “It wasn’t only about learning a new language. I […]
Congratulations are in order for 70 teachers, many of whom took advantage of the TExES ESL Supplemental prep course offered by the Multilingual Programs Department. They passed the test and […]
Cognates are words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation. Some cognate pairs may have the exact same spelling but different pronunciation (such as radio), others […]
Newsela, launched in 2013, is a platform that gathers news from various sources and rewrites them according to students’ reading levels in grades 2 – 12. Now students can study the same content, […]
Learn about your students’ backgrounds and find culturally relevant resources to teach content. Source: ColorinColorado.com One of the important steps of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol model (SIOP) of teaching […]
UsingEnglish.com: Here you will find an incredible collection of tools and resources for learning and teaching English as a Second Language, including a grammar glossary, printables, and teacher handouts. ManyThings: On […]
We want to congratulate every single school that participated in our #HISDLangSOW Language School of the Week campaign! Earlier this year, our department launched a Language School of the Week […]
Attention Bilingual/ESL, Dual Language, Secondary ESL, & Newcomer Teachers: It’s time for Job Alike! Don’t forget to register via e Train no later than Friday, June 10, 2016!
Source: EdWeek Amaya Rodriguez-Lema, of Bilbao, Spain, conducts a reading lesson with 2nd grade students at William Lipscomb Elementary School in Dallas. Rodriguez-Lema is one 150 teachers from Spain currently […]
Source: EDSource By Sarah Tully About half of the children in the two largest public preschool programs in California – Head Start and the California State Preschool Program – speak a […]