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A Language Teacher's Journey

February 8, 2015
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#Teach2Teach Question 3: Most Troubling Teaching Experience

This is the third  question in the #Teach2Teach series, a collaboration with Amy Lenord (@alenord) and Karen Tharrington, Foreign Language Education Program Coordinator at North Carolina State University. After finding out her pre-service education students were nervous about engaging in the … Continue reading

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January 12, 2015
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#Teach2Teach Question 1…

My #langchat amiga Amy Lenord (and if you aren’t following @alenord and her blog you need to!) has started a new project/hashtag. To quote from her first post: I am so excited to start my #Teach2Teach series which is a … Continue reading

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June 18, 2014
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‘Senpai’ – The Rewards of Senior Student Class Volunteers

Many schools have a peer tutor option available for students. Traditionally this is a one-to-one idea in which a student helps to support the learning of the other. I have used this idea for a long time in my classes … Continue reading

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March 13, 2014
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It’s Not Where You’re At – It’s Where You’re Headed

It was a great #langchat tonight. A really lively talk about advocating for the communicative approach in your teaching area. Teachers were great in sharing common objections, ways to lead and why they believe so passionately in how they teach. … Continue reading

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April 9, 2013
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What I Really “Teach”: Literacy, Communication and Self-Reliance

I have had the privilege of working with a student teacher for the first time in my 18 years of teaching. It has been a great journey working with a ‘new’ professional. Today as I sat  in his ‘final’ conference … Continue reading

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July 27, 2012
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Finding Your In-School Mentors..

In the age of personal learning and pro-d much is written about the benefit of Twitter and other web-based collaborative forums. At the same time many schools and districts have established programs for new teachers in their schools. But what … Continue reading

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