Teaching English Net

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

Shirley Romano — 2010-09-01T13:41:08Z

English Language Learners and Learning Disabilities

Shirley Romano — 2010-08-22T17:08:21Z

This article suggests teaching strategies which can be used in the classroom to meet the special needs of students with learning disabilities and addresses ways to identify students with learning disabilities and factors which interfere with the assessment of these disabilities. - Teacher Education

Llamado a becas para apoyo económico a docentes y estudiantes de interior para asistir al 3er Foro de Lenguas Extranjeras

Elena M Garcia Paullier — 2010-08-21T15:14:10Z

See attached documents. - Scholarships

AMERICAN TEACHERS' VISIT TO PASO CARRASCO

Elena M Garcia Paullier — 2010-08-19T05:33:08Z

Communicative Strategies and Cultural Exchange took place in order to improve our first graders´ learning process in the English Language

Groups: 1st grade 3, 4 and 5

Place: Liceo Paso Carrasco

Teacher: Fernando Alvarez

History Fair - English Week at Liceo 1 in Colonia

Elena M Garcia Paullier — 2010-08-18T17:27:01Z

In Daniel's words, "it gets them involved in primary historical research and provides a series of competitions where they can present their findings."

"I haven't become part of the program officially but I am in the process of it. I have been doing some research to have more clear ideas regarding the subject. I am not a history expert, on the contrary, my field is science but I have found myself learning history."

Students Become Historians!

The History Fair serves 20,000 students and 500 teachers in 200 area schools who participate in school, regional, state, and national history contests. Students spend one to three months working individually or in groups creating research projects in local, family, and community history. Students are encouraged to use primary sources—voices from the past—as evidence in their projects and to extend the walls of the classroom into the community to find sources for their research. To present their work, students produce papers, exhibits, media documentaries, and live performances.

In the process of participating in the History Fair, students learn reading, writing, thinking, interviewing and presentation skills. They also learn how to work in teams and organize and complete a project. Finally, in discovering their own community history, students confront questions of significance, validity, point of view, change over time, and cause and effect. They learn how decisions are made in the social, cultural, economic, and political realms that impact their lives. Not only do students "become historians," but they also become better citizens. Educational materials and professional development workshops for teachers are founded on similar principles: making history come alive through use of primary sources, breaking down the classroom walls through access to community sources and connections to contemporary issues, and developing the inquiry approach to learning while augmenting basic student skills.

The program is supported by our sponsors, the Newberry Library, the Chicago Public Library, the Chicago History Museum, theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, and the Illinois Humanities Council as well as dozens of area foundations and corporations.

AUGUST NEWSLETTER

Shirley Romano — 2010-08-16T15:38:06Z

- TE@CHING ENGLISH NEWSLETTER

Talking Time!

Oscar Vairo — 2010-08-11T17:20:20Z

Tuesday, 3rd August starts a speaking workshop for English Teachers in Florida. Attached you'll find the invitation. - PADs

OUP Newsletter August 2010

Oxford University Press — 2010-08-09T04:29:56Z

- OXFORD

SALA Misbehaviour - Pro-social skills 2

Fabiana Farías — 2010-08-06T02:35:55Z

Salas next Saturday 7th and Monday 9th.
Here you will find the information about Salas at Zona 2 and 4. If interested, just let your PAD know, and go to share ideas.
Contact Maria José Neves for her salas' timetables which will take place the very same days but at different schools and times. - PADs

Género, Registro y Discurso: aplicaciones de la LSF a la educación

Elena M Garcia Paullier — 2010-07-22T13:51:17Z

Género, Registro y Discurso: aplicaciones de la LSF a la educación será en español y estará dirigida a profesores y alumnos de formación docente, en especial de Idioma Español y de Lenguas Extranjeras. Será una oportunidad para compartir reflexiones relevantes para nuestro trabajo hoy.

La Mag. Estela Moyano, lingüista del Instituto de Desarrollo Humano de la Uiversidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, se ha especializado en el estudio del análisis del discurso aplicado a la educación, concretamente en la línea de la lingüística sistémico-funcional. En ese sentido, la profesora Moyano expondrá las bases teóricas de su trabajo y compartirá los abordajes prácticos y los usos que esta perspectiva le aporta en su trabajo sobre educación.