Professional Development
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EP 114 Prep & Plan: Routines & Procedures
Are you looking for some effective and engaging lessons for your Language Learners? Join the Close Read Club! Learn more at https://www.myadventuresinesl.com/closereadclub It’s Session 1 for our Prep & Plan journey!! Did you know that just spending a few minutes at the beginning of your classes establishing rules and procedures can make your school year so much easier? The “Back-to-School Prep & Plan Sessions” has begun! If you take action you’ll go into the upcoming school year prepared to support your Language Learners. Step 1: Download the UPDATED WorkbookHere’s the UPDATED link to the workbook for our time together—make sure to print this out and have it beside your computer…
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EP 113 Steps to Minimal Lesson Planning this Summer
Hey everyone! I have great news to share with you this week. One of the biggest requests I get is how to plan lessons for Language Learners. That is why I want to invite you to join me in the Prep & Plan Sessions. During these sessions, I will walk you through how to set the foundation for successful planning throughout the school year. Go to myadventuresinesl.com/prepandplan to get notified when we start our sessions. We are going to start off today’s episode with your reflection question. What did you do last summer that was effective in planning for your school year? Take a moment to reflect on this question.…
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EP. 112 Summer Lesson Plan Strategies
Welcome educators! Before we get started I want to share with you an amazing free tool I have available to you. It is “The Ultimate Guide to a Successful School Year”. In this guide, I walk you through how you can take those nervous jitters to have undeniable confidence throughout the school year. All because you started with these basic steps in the guide. To download the guide go tmyadventuresinesl.com/ultimateguide. We are going to start off today’s episode with your reflection question. Take a moment to reflect on this question. Think about this question and answer yourself honestly about where you stand. The problem with planning over the summer is…
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2022-2023 Reflections
Welcome educators! Before we get started I want to share with you an amazing free tool I have available to you. It is “The Ultimate Guide to a Successful School Year”. In this guide, I walk you through how you can take those nervous jitters to have undeniable confidence throughout the school year. All because you started with these basic steps in the guide. To download the guide go to myadventuresinesl.com/ultimateguide. We are going to start off today’s episode with your reflection question. Take a moment to reflect on this question. Think about this question and answer yourself honestly about where you stand. I will be answering these same questions…
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EP. 108 How Teaching with a Scripted Curriculum Changed Me
Welcome educators! Before we get started I want to share with you an amazing free tool I have available to you. It is “The Ultimate Guide to a Successful School Year”. In this guide, I walk you through how you can take those nervous jitters to have undeniable confidence throughout the school year. All because you started with these basic steps in the guide. To download the guide go to myadventuresinesl.com/ultimateguide. We are going to start off today’s episode with your reflection question. How do you feel about the current curriculum or lack of curriculum you currently are using in your classroom? Take a moment to reflect on this question.…
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Time Management Tips for ESL Students
Hey! Welcome back to this amazing school year. Let’s start off this blog with a reflection question. Take a moment to reflect on this question. Think about this question and answer to yourself honestly where you stand. How are you doing with your time management at school? One thing that most of us wish for is more time during the day. Our school days are usually packed with testing, teaching, meetings, professional development, and tons of other activities. Then to top it off you might have random meetings thrown in throughout the school day. This is so many of us throughout the school year. Last school year, I felt that…
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Strategies to Reduce Your Planning Time this School Year
We are going to start off today’s blog with your reflection question. How much time are you currently spending on your planning? Take a moment to reflect on this question. Think about this question and answer to yourself honestly where you stand. This school year I have already found that my time planning for my Language Learners is slowly creeping up. I wanted to tackle this and get down to the core of the problem before the school year progresses any further. I know a lot of you out there are in the same exact situation. The beginning of the school year I have been loaded up with compliance paperwork.…
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My Favorite Planning Tools
Welcome all-star teachers! I would still like you to take five minutes and reflect. This can have a huge impact on your teaching. Here is our weekly reflection question: What are some tools that you use every class period that you find effective? The problem a lot of educators encounter is really simple. Sometimes there are WAY too many resources out there for us. They can range from dozens of subscription sites, flashcards, printables and so much more. A lot of us want to minimize our tools and maximize how we are using those tools. At the beginning of every school year, I am always overly excited about the new…
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Getting Ready for the Upcoming School Year
Welcome all-star teachers! Here is our weekly reflection question: Reflecting on the upcoming school year, do you feel you are prepared? This past school year has been hard on a lot of us. I completely understand if you don’t want to even think about the new year that is upon us. Many of us have tried to juggle in-person learning/virtual learning and all the struggles that come with both. On top of that we have our daily compliance and advocating we have to do on behalf of our Language Learners. This year for me was personally tough to navigate. I had so many various students with varying needs that I…
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How to Quickly Write Language & Content Objectives
Welcome all-star teachers! Here is our weekly reflection question: How consistent are you in writing language and content objectives? Writing language objectives and content objectives can be overwhelming and time consuming for any teacher. When learning how to write content objectives and learning objectives, there are way too many resources available. This can lead to you feeling confused and in some cases frustrated. Before I started teaching, I faintly heard of content and language objectives. The first struggle was understanding what is a content objective and what is a language objective. A content objective identifies what the students will be able to know and what to do by the end…
