Sentences with phrase «facing language teaching»
The Language Trends Survey, published today by the British Council and Education Development Trust, highlights a number of challenges facing language teaching.
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Dr. Prempeh further pointed to an insufficient number of French teachers and a limited number of learning and teaching materials as the main challenges facing the government in pursuit of its policy on the French language.
Euterpe, the muse of lyrical poetry and song, who teaches language arts and music, tells the others about a video she came across that shows a face - off between rap and poetry.
When faced with this challenge, many students are taught to detach from content, to analyze with sterile language, and to develop ideas within a narrow formula.
Many states have set the bar so low for children who are learning English that students in those states could leave high school without being taught to read or write the language, yet their schools would face no consequences under federal education law.
«I would teach that exact same kind of language even in face - to - face conversation,» he says.
Yet even as we have expanded public school choices for students to include career academies and all - girls schools, we are still faced with significant barriers to prevent us from teaching English language learners in a bilingual environment.
The face - to - face sessions also provided teachers with the opportunity to reflect on their teaching practices as they discussed which instructional practices would work best for students and which practices needed modification to accommodate specific learning needs of English language learners or students with learning disabilities.
For Bloomfield, New London and Windham, three towns whose children face some of the greatest educational challenges, including poverty and language barriers, the decision was simply to stop teaching and keep testing from March till the end of the year.
In the face of so many challenges and obstacles — designing new curricula aligned with Common Core, teaching a large population of English language learners and grappling with the reality that 75 percent of their students qualify for free or reduced price lunch — Burton's teachers wanted a protected, regular time slot to come together, look at data and figure out which of their teaching methods worked and which ones didn't so they could bring their students along on a path toward success.
Finding workable, effective strategies for teaching language arts is one of the most difficult issues facing school districts today.
However, the Courant editorial board should be especially sensitive to the fact that there are people out there who have figured out how to game the system, while there are significant challenges facing those who are trying to teach math and science — in English — to non-English speaking students who must then turn around and take standardized tests on those subjects in a language in which they are not proficient.
Imagine if Connecticut's elected and appointed officials actually stopped denigrating teachers, the teaching profession and public schools and started listening to teachers and providing the resources necessary to improve educational outcomes, especially for Connecticut children living in poverty, facing English language challenges or requiring special education services.
She has taught high school English as well as middle school language arts and technology, and she now focuses her attention on teaching face - to - face and online courses related to education technology as well as school leadership and administration to pre-service and in - service teachers.
Effectively teaching these students means incorporating their funds of knowledge into the curriculum, encouraging them to use their knowledge of their home language to develop academic English, making them aware of content - area — related cognates, providing graphic organizers, incorporating input from multiple modalities, and encouraging students to engage face - to - face with one another to develop English literacy skills.