Elisa Waingort
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ESL Ruminations #3
OK. I’m on a roll. I have been energized by thinking and writing about what’s working and what isn’t going so well with my ESL classes. I have enjoyed trying out new routines and activities with my students. I’ve written about some of my ruminations and attempts to improve learning for my students here and… Read more
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ESL Ruminations, Take #2
On May 7th, I wrote a post detailing concerns I was having about the activities that my ESL students were engaged in during our class time. I surveyed the class and got some interesting responses about what was going well and what changes we could make to improve these assignments. What follows are some of… Read more
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Books, books, books!
Ever since I can remember I have loved to read, and I still do. I have fond childhood memories of visiting my neighborhood library in Brooklyn, on the corner of Ocean Ave and Kings Highway, many times as I was growing up. On a recent visit to NY, I was saddened to see how rundown… Read more
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Boston Commencent 2013
I am currently in Boston for my daughter’s graduation from BU. As I searched for an image about Boston to embed into this post, I discovered that just about all of the images I came across on google were of the destruction caused by the Boston Marathon bombings. So, just for the record, Boston is… Read more
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Email Junky
OK, I am beginning to realize that I am an email junky. Extreme, you say? Hmmm…How do I know I’m addicted? Well, I check my messages numerous times a day, too many to count, on my iPhone and on my personal and work laptops as if the email coming through on each of these devices… Read more
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Monolingual VS Bilingual Infographic http://visual.ly/embeder/embed.js This is interesting infographic about the benefits of knowing more than one language. Do you agree with the premises stated here? What has been your experience as a speaker of more than one language or as a teacher of students learning a second or other language? Read more
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ESL Class Ruminations
I have been using the Daily5 with my beginner to intermediate middle school students and have been fairly happy with the results: children who like to read and write. They are finding authors and series they enjoy and are discovering that writing can be a powerful way to communicate with others. I work with my students in… Read more
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Mystery Skype!
On Thursday of this week, my 5th and 6th grade beginner ESL students and I participated in a Mystery Skype session with a class in Connecticut, USA. This was my first Mystery Skype and I was nervous. In fact, the day before our scheduled session, I emailed my partner teacher to say that I was getting… Read more
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Full Writing Disclosure
I have decided, yet again – but this time I will come through, I promise – to write every day. Pinky swear!I may not publish what I write as a blog post every day but I will write as if I were. That’s a big proposition and, to be honest, it scares me. But, I… Read more
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Toxic Environment
What do people mean when they say that a school has a toxic environment? According to a quick google search, toxic is always associated with poison or toxins. It is harmful and unhealthy. So, when a school’s environment “goes toxic” whose job is is to cure it? Who is responsible for this outcome? How did… Read more
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