Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. While the instructions are presented here in English, the activity should be conducted in the target language—whether Spanish or another language being taught. Instructions: 1.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. While the instructions are presented here in English, the activity should be conducted in the target language—whether Spanish or another language being taught. Instructions: 1.

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Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

This is not just because young people’s minds have a short attention span from social media, but because human beings are genetically hard-wired to prefer to watch interactive scenes rather than a single individual. English classes could have the teacher display a student’s paper and edit it together.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Like most language arts/English teachers, I always wanted to share my love of reading with my students. But with the advent of technology, the internet, and cell phones, it seemed like reading for pleasure (not to mention the requisite attention span) had gone the way of buggy whips, writing quills, and powdered wigs.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

In many districts, the programs at risk are the same ones that support compliance with federal education laws: Title III-supported English language services, Special Education instruction, and after-school accommodations often written into IEPs. But the mechanisms to fund those obligations are increasingly unstable.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

From enjoyable English games to interesting lessons for reluctant readers, ELA will quickly be their favorite class of the year. These fun ELA activities for middle school are perfect for any reading level or class setting, whether you’re planning a Friday Fun Day or preparing for an English final exam. Differentiate by skill.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 21, 2025

In fact, the Ancient Greek word for leisure, skhole , is the root of our English word for school. By that, he proposed that we seek out and embrace those things that we do without prompting, effortlessly.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

For students, this means larger class sizes, less individualized attention and support, and a lower quality of education overall. School districts nationwide struggle to fill teaching positions , especially in elementary education, secondary English, and special education. Why Is There a Teacher Shortage?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

In your opinion, what sport gets too much attention? What sport should get more attention? Narrative Writing Prompts: TASK CARDS By Stacey Lloyd Grades: 6th-10th Subjects: Creative Writing, English Language Arts Avoid writers block with a helpful set of narrative writing task cards. What about kindergarten?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

Identifying the Needs of English Learners English learners (ELs) have unique needs requiring targeted instructional approaches to support their language acquisition and academic success. Because ELs come from diverse linguistic backgrounds, their English language skills may vary widely.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. But getting and holding the attention of students has become more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. I'm a quest giver.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Most of my students immigrated to the United States within the last year, and all of them were English learners, thus making it difficult for them to complete the activity. Unfortunately, the sentiment within my supervisor’s response is not unique to the curricula design for English learners.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. A thought-provoking question is a great crowd-pleaser.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the United States, English is the main language used in classrooms. All the students’ scores improved after playing the game, and multilingual students performed as well as their English-speaking peers. education system, students mainly communicate their ideas through English,” said Ding. In the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Learning a second language is a challenge, whether it be English, Russian, or any of the hundreds of world languages we find across the globe. You’ve come to the right place if you want to improve your English language skills. An ESL tutor can give you one-to-one attention, unlike a traditional classroom setting.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

.” Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2019

What happened to the market for teaching Chinese adults to speak English? Serving Chinese adults keen to learn English and English-based curriculum was a powerful market, long before delivering online English tutoring to Chinese children became so popular with investors. billion RMB (approx.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2021

While it might be easier to see how comics would fit into an English language arts class, there’s no great trick to incorporating them across the curriculum. Why comics? The most obvious reason to have students create comics in class is because they’re fun.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The class may include students with a hearing impairment, auditory processing disorder, or attention deficit disorder. The teacher may use academic or subject-specific vocabulary unfamiliar to a student with limited background knowledge or who is not a native English speaker.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

BUDAPEST/LOS ANGELES (October 1, 2021) – An acclaimed and multi award-winning English As A Second Language (ESL)appin daily use with over 20,000 classrooms across Europe is launching in the US. BOOKR Class presents storybooks in a highly engaging format to focus on reading in English.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. A thought-provoking question is a great crowd-pleaser.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

residents who speak a language other than English at home. It’s time to come together to support all families with the same opportunities and information we provide English-speaking families. It’s infinitely more challenging for the 1 in 5 U.S. This will require training (and retraining) staff on your language access policies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. They (rightfully) paid attention to trauma and marginalization but missed the joy, creativity and production of BIPOC culture.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 201

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

Homework has been getting a lot of attention in the media. School, a pilot program at my high school where I co-teach English, science, and technology with another teacher. As a parent and teacher, I find this conversation is particularly interesting. How was I going to get through everything without assigning homework?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2024

The reason I even graduated from high school was because my mom ran into my English teacher at the grocery store when I was in 10th grade, and the teacher mentioned that I’d missed class–a lot, actually. But the parent conference was solely about my kid and had my full attention. I certainly can.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2024

A typical situation is that you are speaking the Spanish language at home, and then English in the school setting, and that's something that sometimes is seen as the de facto,” Gauna says. In Texas , where roughly 40 percent of residents are Hispanic, nearly 1 million students in public schools are English learners who speak Spanish at home.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2024

Identifying the subjects where students lost the most learning over the pandemic, tutors highlighted math (34 percent) and English language arts (22 percent) as the primary subjects still needing attention this summer, while students prioritize foreign language (28 percent) and math (24 percent).

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2017

It was assumed that students were being lazy, not paying attention, or being disruptive because they were badly behaved, not because they were infuriated. Most English classes still include Shakespeare from time to time. Reading will always be an important part of learning, especially in the English classroom. Google Play Books.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete. For me it was Ms. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and more than half of students are learning English. The year before the pandemic, 22% of students in the district met or exceeded Illinois’ English language arts standards, while 16% cleared that bar in math. My brain is too over-capacitated!”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A seasoned writer and editor in English Language Arts and the humanities, Sparks previously served as a Senior Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research and a Curriculum Writer for Public Consulting Group. “I’m in English Literature from Princeton University and a degree in librarianship from the University of Wales.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Of those, approximately 2,700 are English Language learners. In an effort to target our at-risk ELLs, our district recently embarked on a new endeavor focusing our attention on a preemptive plan for students in the earlier grades, with the aim of reducing the need for alternative education measures later on in their schooling.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I’ve been a reading specialist, a special education teacher, and an English teacher, among others. During Teacher Appreciation Week, she gave me a thank you note that told me that even though some students didn’t always pay attention, she appreciated that I tried every single day.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. He’s also in the classroom (well, a virtual one these days) as a professor of English at Assumption University, where he is also the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Almost 10 percent of students in US public schools are English language learners (ELLs), and that percentage is growing every year. An essential first step in that process is getting their attention in class. I’ve found that it helps students develop their English and problem-solving skills.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

But it was a move to Japan to become an English teacher that finally helped Bonner see how he could meld his love of language learning with his technology fascination. “I I saw that I could use VR to do some fascinating stuff with English language education,” explains Bonner. It only appears when the students need it.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

A lot of injustices are recorded,” he said, “and until they get attention nothing is done about them.”. On the other hand, Faris noted, “there is a cycle of shaming and public outrage and outsized attention. He sees some merits to posting video on social media but warned that it can also have unfair and negative consequences. “A

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