"The majority of people in the US are white. What's wrong with having them on billboards!?"

Dear fellow teachers, I could use some diversity teaching help. A friend of mine recently showed the film "Blue Eyed" in her year 11 ESL class. The students understood the experiment and the need for it, but they got really stuck with the (to them) less ( Read more... )

I'm a German EFL teacher, my students are covering Australia and Christmas at the moment and the textbook leaves a lot to be desired, so I'd like them to ask real-life Australians about their plans for the last months of the year - do you celebrate any holidays? Which? How? What's traditional in your family? That sort of thing - nothing too ( Read more... )

So this past week I get pulled from class to translate for a hispanic mother from Guatemala. I have my degrees in Modern Languages/Spanish and Liberal Studies/Elementary Education, so I could translate for the mother. I felt bad because my Spanish is rusty from not using it on a daily basis, but I managed to get all the information to the parent ( Read more... )

As a teacher, what words do you find that you use the most often or that you could not do with out. I am asking specifically with intent to create a short list of words that would be good for a teacher who has students who speak little or no English in the class to know in the child's native language ( Read more... )

i'm a korean-canadian who speaks teeny bit of korean and i'm planning to go there to teach english but i don't want to just teach them grammar or how to pronounce correctly. those are given, but in order to give the kids some interest i'm looking for any cool english-related, western culture-related lessons. it can be basic and simple as explaining ( Read more... )