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Elisa Waingort

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A Teacher Musing Out Loud

  • 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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  • Modelling

    Lately, I’ve been thinking about modelling and its place in the classroom. I’ve also been thinking about how we often don’t model the behaviours, strategies, etc that we want our students to demonstrate because we are in a rush to move through the curriculum or because we figure they should get it if we tell… Read more

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