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Episodes
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
David Bott, the Associate Director of the Institute of Positive Education, shares 5 easily implementable strategies that teachers can use to develop students' social-emotional skills in person or during offline instruction.
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To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, go to https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom
Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Hieu Pham-Fraser (@hieu_fraser), James Thesiger, and Mari-Jane (MJ) Medenwaldt (@mjmedenwaldt) share how they started off virtual schooling with an SEL-focused unit to address the emotional needs of their students. They have produced a thoughtful unit that is worth sharing.
Use this link to access their unit plan.
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To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, go to https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Katie Gardner (@gardnerkb1), NBCT is an Apple Distinguished Educator and a kindergarten teacher. In this episode, Katie shares how she uses tech to teach her beginning language learners. Her lessons integrate all the language domains, and these ideas are sure to inspire you!
Resources from the show:
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To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, go to https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Alma Flores-Perez from @TalkingPointsEd shares how teachers and families can communicate without having to know the same language. You can learn more by going to https://talkingpts.org/.
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To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, go to https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Dr. Irina McGrath (@irina_mcgrath) and Michelle Makus-Shory @michelleshory join me in this episode to share how smartphone-based learning can provide opportunities to learn from home.
You can view the Google Slide that inspired this episode here https://sites.google.com/view/ell20/phones-for-learning?authuser=0
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To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, go to https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Maria Montroni-Currais (@MrsMCESL) shares an 8-week calendar of activities as one approach to stimulate engagement even if students do not have access to technology. Currently, the calendars have been translated into 27 languages and are available at https://eslathome.edublogs.org/.
You might find this Colorín Colorado article on offline lesrning ideas to be helpful https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/offline-learning-ells
If there is a language that you would like to provide, please contact Maria at mmontroni@Somerdale-park.org
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To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, go to https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Heather Parris, Lisa Estrada, and Andrea Hongisfeld teamed up to write ELL Frontiers: Using technology to enhance instruction for ELLs (https://amzn.to/2SOzhHS - affiliate link). This is a timely conversation about intentional technology integration that opens doors for language learners.
@ESLTechies & @AndreaHonigsfel
The resource mentioned by Heather (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccDFVPwz8bw&feature=youtu.be)
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To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, go to https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
International educator, Alycia Owen (@alycia_owen) shares how she has been collaborating while she is in the U.S., her students are in China, and her colleagues are spread out all around the world. We talk about synchronous and asynchronous planning, tools that support teacher collaboration, and the content of our collaboration.
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To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, go to https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom
Saturday Apr 11, 2020
Saturday Apr 11, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
In this episode, Bret Gosselin (@BretGosselin), Katie Toppel (@Toppel_ELD), and Carol Salva (@MsSalvac) interview teacher collaboration royalty, Andrea Honigsfeld (@AndreaHonigsfel) and Maria Dove (@MariaGDove) on virtual teacher collaboration as a recap to their VirtuEL 2019 Keynote (tinyurl.com/u2jnofd).
You can get access to previous VirtuEL Conferences with this link http://bit.ly/VirtuEL
To purchase Andrea and Maria's Collaborating for English Learners book, use this affiliate link https://amzn.to/2X2o63B.
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To record a voice message for the podcast, visit this linkhttps://www.empoweringells.com/podcast/
To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, click here: https://www.empoweringells.com/courses/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom.
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
This is a special episode to support teachers and schools experiencing school closures due to the COVID19 pandemic.
In this episode, @Catlin_Tucker shares how to shift away from only disseminating to maximizing synchronous video conferencing. You'll learn specifically about providing small-group instruction, small-group discussions, and conferencing with students. Catlin’s article truly changed my practice of virtual schooling.
https://catlintucker.com/2020/03/3-ways-to-use-video-conferencing/
Get Catlin’s latest book Balance with Blended Learning (affiliate link: https://amzn.to/2JEy1mY)
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To record a voice message for the podcast, visit this linkhttps://www.empoweringells.com/podcast/
To learn more about one of Tan’s courses, click here: https://www.empoweringells.com/online-pd/
You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanELLclassroom.