Certificates to Print - print formal certificates with your picture - style: black frame
from Print With My Pic. Upload a picture right from your computer or insert the URL to an image off the Net. Personalizing the photo award certificate: You can change the title text from "Certificate of Achievement" to any title you'd like. You can make a Birthday Award, Birthday Party Award, or anything you'd like. Click on the wording and type your desired title on the title line.
What Does Research Tell Us About Teaching Reading to English Language Learners?
As a classroom teacher, I was largely ignorant of, and definitely suspicious of, research. I believed that researchers could make their studies come out any way they wanted them to, and that a good teacher who reflected on her own teaching knew much more about how to be effective with her students than any researcher did. Later, as a university professor, I learned how important good research can be, and how difficult it is to do really good experimental research in a field such as education, where it is impossible to control all the variables. For that reason, I was pleased in 1997 when Congress funded the National Reading Panel (NRP) to evaluate research about teaching children to read.
DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms
Classrooms should be fundamentally thoughtful places, environments where students are taught a wide range of higher order conceptual skills to complement the traditional basics of reading, writing, and computation. ~ Terry Roberts, Director of the National Paideia Center Learning is the Adventure of What Can Be How do you think your students would take to becoming an animation movie producer and director? Can you think of ways in which your students could use the animation creator to focus on their ideas? What kind of “higher order conceptual skills” will the students use to show they understand what you want them to learn? I am a “learn by doing” person.
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The Advantages of Being Bilingual
Most children have the capacity and facility to learn more than one language. Researchers say that there are advantages to being bilingual. These advantages might include; Being able to learn new words easilyPlaying rhyming games with words like "cat" and "hat"Breaking down words by sounds, such as C-A-T for catBeing able to use information in new waysPutting words into categoriesComing up with solutions to problemsGood listening skillsConnecting with others According to the American Community Survey, more than one in 5 individuals over the age of 5 (21%) speak a language other than English at home.
Storytelling with Scratch
<div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Scratch is a fantastic, FREE, creative program from MIT which can be used to create art, animations, games, music, simulations, stories and more.
Make and Play
Switch the animals' heads, legs, and tails to make your own new creatures! Switch Zoo has 142 natural species in nine habitats.Play Switch Zoo Switch Zoo App Build six of world's biomes by choosing the right plants, animal, temperature range, and precipitation for each.
Learning Two Languages
[en Español] Anyone can learn a new language. Some people find it easier than others, but all of us can do it. People who can use two languages are bilingual. Children can learn to be bilingual. They can learn two languages at home, at school, or in the community.
Talk to Your Baby
Research consistently points to early oral language skills as among the strongest predictors of educational success, and as providing a vital foundation for school-readiness and effective learning across other domains. - Nuffield Foundation report into Early Education and Childcare, 2015 The legacy of Talk to Your Baby speaks for itself.
Capzles – digital storytelling and presentation tool
Capzles is an interesting digital storytelling tool that allows users to tell a story using pictures, video clips, audio tracks and text. Users are given the ability to place this media, called “moments”, together chronologically in a timeline. Creating a “Capzle” is easy via the website. You can upload photographs and videos or blog directly onto the site. You have a lot of control over the background colors and themes to be used with the capzle.
English-Language-Learner Classification Can Impede Student Growth, Study Finds - Learning the Language
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Seven Teaching Strategies for Classroom Teachers of ELLs
In Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas (ASCD, 2010), Debbie Zacarian and I listed seven teaching strategies for mainstream teachers of ELLs. These seven strategies are designed to help teachers meet the needs of all the students in their classes and to help make the mainstream classroom more inclusive for ELLs. 1.Provide comprehensible input for ELLs. Language is not “soaked up.” The learner must understand the message that is conveyed.
Educators
What is ScratchEd? Launched in July 2009, ScratchEd is an online community where Scratch educators share stories, exchange resources, ask questions, and find people. Since its launch, more than 7500 educators from all around the world have joined the community, sharing hundreds of resources and engaging in thousands of discussions.
Acquiring English as a Second Language: What' s Normal and What' s Not
What's "Normal," What's Not [en Español] By the 2030s, say demographers, English language learners (ELLs) will account for approximately 40% of the entire school-aged population in the United States.
