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Educational agency

about certification

Application for review of credentials and mail in documents.

tea website

tea.texas.gov

create login, and apply for application

one year cert, take test

How do I teach ESL

Teamwork! How do I work with a team? I usually am the moderator, clarifiers, thermostat. Resource person, trivia person.

ESL-wise, modern approaches stress real communication, using language for real tasks rather than drilling.

Scenarios. Conversation. Grammar is important but learn it naturally ( Read more... )

http://hobnobblog.com/faculty-favorites/you-have-two-cows-the-government/

This is a good example of how not to exercise academic freedom.

We have academic freedom in order to be able to do worthwhile research and unpopular research, and to enable us to teach unpopular ideas. We do not have it in order to enable us to goad students on to riot in a physics class ( Read more... )

Justin, my former student, published an article on the inauguration, which he attended:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CampusNewsAndEvents

I'm proud of him. He's such a great guy.