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Thank you to November’s winner, Kristin Duncan, for responding to my HELP! Tweet about ideas for the December giveaway. Thanks to her brilliant mind, I am very excited to announce that this month, one of my lucky readers will win a year-long subscription to http://www.textivate.com. I blogged about this awesome resource back in 2012, and…
Read MoreNovember is racing along, and so it is high time that I post this month’s giveaway, don’t you think? This month, we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the U.S., and so our theme for this giveaway is going to be thankfulness. Nothing original, of course, but I hope that it will be a good way to share some…
Read MoreThe Immigrant Archive Project is a really neat website that I found through the Esperanza Teacher’s Guide. It contains pages upon pages of videos of immigrants to the United States telling their stories. The possibilities for classroom use of this site are endless! The activity that is published in Chapter 9 of the Esperanza’s Teacher’s…
Read MoreThis.Prezi.Is.Awesome. Thanks to @vmorgana for Tweeting it out this morning! It explains various storytelling techniques, but also provides a compelling argument for how and why storytelling is an effective method of instruction in any content area. Awesome! …and four hours later, this great article Tweeted by @SenorG, ACTFL Teacher of the Year, about the power of…
Read MoreThis is a fantastic video from Frontline about how a student’s middle school experience–even in sixth grade–can predict whether or not that child will drop out of high school: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/education/dropout-nation/middle-school-moment/ The video states that if a sixth-grade student in a high-poverty school is present less than 80 percent of the time, fails math or English,…
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Original post: October 2012 I know that I am way behind the eight ball on this one, and I have a tendency to exaggerate things, but… This is the best 2.0 tool for comprehensible input classrooms. I only say that because I can’t think of one that I like better. This is EASY for teachers…
Read MoreHere is the link to a visuals database for world language classrooms, created by the University of Pittsburg. It has zillions of uses, one of which could be selecting one image to use as a class prompt for a universal screener or other writing or speaking assessment. You could print out one and leave it…
Read MoreThis is one of my favorite language-learning resources. My students love it, and it is a great activity to leave as a sub plan or for a day that you plan to pull students for things like speaking assessments or portfolio reviews. Basically, students can log in and read dual-language electronic storybooks and complete follow-up…
Read MoreHi all, Since I use this blog way more than my old google site, I’ve transferred the domain http://www.martinabex.com to this blog. If you want to access my old google site (I’ll eventually transfer all of its files over here), you need to use its google URL: https://sites.google.com/a/martinabex.com/www/for-teachers
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