Burnaby TESOL Class Fall 2018

Good morning all! I will send out an email to you to confirm that you have seen this, but tonight I will ask you to spend some time writing at home. I think many of you/us can use a night to to reflect on some of these key concepts. A couple weeks ago I passed out some questions from a previous quiz that I conducted with my class. Tonight I want you to write about two (2) of the questions below.  1.    What is the difference between accuracy and fluency? Discuss how these relate to English Language Learners. 2.    What is the difference between acquiring language and learning language? Why should teachers consider both in preparing lessons?  3.    Which reading strategies (pre-reading and during reading) would you use in the situation provided below? Why? 4.    What is meant by communicative instruction? Why is this method preferred? I will ask you to email me your response later tonight. I will look at these ...

Hi Everyone!! The sun is out and hope you're enjoying the beeeeooootiful long weekend!  This is a topic that's been in the back of my mind since the course began and a couple of things I've watched and experienced lately have really got me thinking a little bit more about this and how I would handle situations such as those as a teacher. The world is a mess right now and tensions and sensitivities seem to be at an extreme level, especially in classrooms.  As teachers, how would you deal with issues and conflicts that arise about politics, sexuality, equality, political correctness, mental health etc. in your classrooms?  Even though we're ESL teachers, I'm quite certain that we will most likely come across some of these things at some point when teaching. I found this article that I thought was quite good.  Take a read, but I'd also like to get your thoughts and ideas.  https://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/SBAN/Images/Classrooms/Ten%20...

'Sup, everyone! I can take the blog for this week, 'kay?  See you tomorrow!

Happy Saturday friends, Here is a video clip on teaching connotation and denotation. Hope you will find it useful :) see you Tuesday. Michele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrbMfnbTa4

Great class last night! I enjoyed going through some resources that I have used, and I hope you will take some time to play with them. These resources really do take time to figure out, and the more you play with them, the easier they get to use. Please play some more with these sites. Some of these sites are now "pay per use" whereas when I first started using them, they were free. So if you don't want to pay or use them, don't worry about it. Just go and look at something else. Have fun! Google Forms: creating surveys, questionnaires, and quizzes youtube: create playlists of your favourite educational videos (and music) Glogster (edu.glogster.com): making digital posters; creative Mixbook (mixbook.com): making online scrapbooks animoto (animoto.com): making slide shows of pictures better than photostory sumopaint (www.sumopaint.com): like photoshop but online popplet (www.popplet.com): creating virtual mind maps history pin (www.historypin.com): edmod...

Hey all. Thanks so much for your understanding tonight. I made it to the hospital by 6:50pm, and stayed with my mom and brother until around 8:30 pm. The nurse said that he was mostly out of 'danger'. He was very restless when we first arrived, but by the time we left he was sleeping soundly (snoring). I will follow up with my parents and perhaps the doctor tomorrow morning. Thanks again for your understanding and gracious concern. See you soon. Marc

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