Barbara Lindsey | April 21, 2011
Every Thursday night (8-9 p.m. EST: Time zone converter) for the past four months language educators across the United States have been meeting online to discuss and share ways to improve their professional practice. They do this using Twitter, the free online service that allows you to send out public or private messages of 140 [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 14, 2011
A great session I attended at NECTFL 2011 was The Impact of the National Standards on Language Education & National Initiatives with Marty Abbott, Eileen Glisan and June Phillips. Shared in this session were the results of a national (U.S.) survey of world language teachers on how and to what extent the Standards for Foreign [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 10, 2011
In the early nineties a blind student enrolled in my beginning level German course. In addition to her guide dog, she also had a student assistant who would help by describing to her the texts and graphics he saw displayed during class and tell her what I and the other students were doing. Since I [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 1, 2011
Kevin and I will be co-presenting at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages this weekend. We hope to give language educators an opportunity to explore the ways in which some of the currently experimental google lab projects could be used to support our language learners. What’s particularly intriguing is the way in [...]
Barbara Lindsey | March 24, 2011
Prior to becoming an ESL and social studies teacher, Larry Ferlazzo served for almost two decades as a community organizer. “Organizing,” Larry told us in our interview, “is just another word for relationship building.” Good teaching anchors learning through relationships—relationships with our peers, with our mentors, with members of our close and extended communities. We [...]
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