I’ve been thinking about whether to help my Literacy students with prompting, and with the actual answers during an assessment task. On task rubrics, there’s usually a section where the…
You might have watched it happen: You’re mid-explanation, working through a grammar point with real care, and you can see the exact moment your class checks out. Then, five minutes…
I teach Literacy and CLB 1. Pictures can help students understand, but I have found that having a speaker and audio version of the students’ language is also very useful.…
In language teaching, considerable time and energy are often devoted to planning the beginning and middle of a lesson. Teachers carefully select engaging warm-up activities, activate background knowledge, introduce vocabulary,…
Imagine two learners are heads-down on a group task, and you catch a quick exchange between them in Tagalog or Mandarin before they switch back to English. Maybe this is not as…
With Canada Day approaching, I wanted to share a little activity I have been doing with my learners. I drew a map of Canada on the whiteboard, cut out strips…
