More Blogs

http://www.stevenkatz.com/


http://www2.yk.psu.edu/sites/scs15/ by Suzanne C Shaffer.
She has a very detailed portfolio with a lot of her own personal resources as well as links to other books, articles and blogs. 

http://blog.wiziq.com/author/sylvia

http://kurtishewson.wordpress.com/ By Kurtis Hewson.

Great blogs and teacher resources

http://www.alienteachers.com/ Impressive portfolio; topic based lesson plans often with an ethical theme. I've used a couple of his ideas in class with good results.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ by Richard Byrne. This is a great blog for sharing online resources complete with tutorials. Categories include Video Creation Resources, Creating Blogs and Websites, Favorite Resources, Educational Alternatives to YouTube, Google Tools Tutorials.

http://film-english.com/ by Kieran Donaghy. Donaghy's portfolio is quite interesting because he incorporates short films into his ESL lessons. Whether it's the theme of the film or the language used in the film, it is all relevant to learning English as a second language.

http://kimcofino.com/ by Kim Cofino.

http://suzannekarlbrigman.wordpress.com/ by Susan Karl-Brigman. This is a quite simple and clear portfolio, complete with resume, teaching philosophy and sample lesson plans for ESL teachers.

http://www.justintarte.com/ by Justin Tarte. His portfolio is one of the top 15 educators on twitter

http://amyburghardt.wordpress.com/ by Amy Burghardt.

http://sirkenrobinson.com Ken Robinson about changing education paradigms. 

Message from ESL Jobs

hey guys, it has been a bit since I received any submissions. So, I'll take matters into my own hands. Here is a series of educators blogs that you might find useful. take a look at them for great ideas for your classroom as well as some thought provoking videos about education.

Prepositions of Place Picture Hunt

Hi,

Really easy game. Make a list of different places your students can go around to take pictures. This activity works best with teams.  For example,

1. I am NEXT TO a black car.

The students find a black car and take a picture of one of them next to it.

Easy as that! Just make  a list with other prepositions of place.

Message from ESL JOBS

hey guys,

Would love to see more people writing in with their ideas and materials for this section. Help me Help you and  Help others and Help Humans, Maybe a dog...ok maybe not a dog. Anyways...send in your ideas, websites whatever you think someone can use.

Modern Family as Video Aid

This program can be used to help teach ESL learners. Works better with subtitles.


I have used the several episodes  as a video aid to teach different basic concepts.

Season 1 ep 1: Can be used to teach introductions and family tree.

Gear your questions towards family relationships.

Ex: Jays is Gloria's ____________________

      Phil is Alex's _____________________

Season 1 ep 2: Can be used to talk about jobs and/or describing people.

ex: What does Phil do?

     What does Cameron look like?



Season 1 ep 7: Can be used to talk about hobbies.


ex: What is Jay's hobby?


You can also highlight different vocabulary words that can studied by the students and used in their daily conversations to help them sound more fluent. Some explanation will be required.

Ex. ep1. Drama Queen.


If you watch different episodes, I'm sure you can come with different lessons. Adult and high school students really enjoy this program.

Can't go wrong with Raffi

http://youtu.be/Oqq6jppAYFo


Fun song and video.