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Classroom Strategies, Uncategorized

Creating Independence in an ESL Classroom

We all love independence! Independence is weaved throughout our lives and with us everyday. How do you bring independence into your ESL classroom? In my first year of teaching that…

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March 20, 2019
Building Relationships, Classroom Strategies, Uncategorized

Fostering Independence While Working with Small Groups

Welcome all-star teachers! As we jump into today’s topic, I would like you to reflect on your wins for the week.  Have you ever wanted your students to be more…

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March 3, 2020
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Lesson Topics for the Second Semester

We are going to start off today’s blog with your reflection question. How is your first semester with your students going this school year? Take a moment to reflect on…

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November 15, 2021
  • Uncategorized

    Planning for Listening Growth

    October 12, 2020 /

    Welcome all-star teachers! As we jump into today’s topic, I would like you to reflect on your wins for the week. Every week I want to highlight a teacher’s win. A win can be big or small. I want you to celebrate your wins, and we want to celebrate with you! If you have a win you want to share, email me at millie@myadventuresinesl.com. Have you ever been confused about how to support your language learners in the four domains? You genuinely want your students to grow, but you may be stuck on how to support them in listening activities.   I personally always thought that listening was the  “easier” domain.…

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    Stop Searching for Resources

    October 5, 2020 /

    Download a copy of the podcast transcript by clicking here. Welcome all-star teachers!As we jump into today’s topic, I would like you to reflect on your wins for the week. Also remember to give yourself grace. Everyone is asking us to give grace, but above everything else we need to give it to ourselves. Every week I want to highlight a teacher’s win. A win can be big or small. I want you to celebrate your wins, and we want to celebrate with you! If you have a win you want to share email me at millie@myadventuresinesl.com This week’s win comes from Chantel in my community My Adventures in ESL.…

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    Opening up your doors: Becoming Confident When Visitors come Knocking

    September 28, 2020 /

    Download the transcript to this episode here Welcome all-star teachers! As we jump into today’s topic, I would like you to reflect on your wins for the week. Ask yourself this simple question. What were the wins I had this week and what were some areas of growth. Every week I want to highlight a teacher’s win. A win can be big or small. I want you to celebrate your wins, and we want to celebrate with you!  Have you ever had a visitor show up to observe your class and you are a bundle of nerves. You know you are an amazing teacher, but seeing someone at the doors…

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    Planning Formative Assessments for the Four Domains

    September 21, 2020 /

    Welcome back to the My Adventures in ESL podcast. I am your host, Millie, and I am excited to be here with you all today. Now, in today’s podcast, I am going to be sharing with you how you can plan formative assessments for the four domains of language without being overwhelmed. So welcome, I’m excited to be here. And we’re going to jump right into today’s topic. Before we do that, you know our weekly thing is to celebrate our wins for the week and every week I want to highlight your wins. So if you have one, send them in. Share them in our Facebook community on Facebook.…

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    Close Reading

    September 14, 2020 /

    Welcome back, Teachers. I am Millie and I am your host of the My Adventures in ESL podcast. Today we are going to be talking about how you can plan close reading lessons for your language learners. Now, before we jump into today’s topic, I would like for you to reflect on your “wins” for the week. I know one of mine is that I reviewed the curriculum and saw that there were a lot of close reading activities that I needed to plan for this upcoming school year. As I reflected on last year, I saw that I did a really great job of structuring how I taught my…

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    1st Day of School Activities

    September 7, 2020 /

    Hi, Teachers. Welcome back to My Adventures in ESL. On today’s show, I’m going to be sharing with you some first day of school activities that you can do with your language learners. Now, like on every episode, I want to share and celebrate some “wins”.  Before we do that, I would like for you to reflect on your “wins” for the week. What were some “wins” that you are proud of, some that you want to celebrate? Remember, it doesn’t have to be huge. You can be a small win. A win is a win and they start to add up. So if you want to celebrate your “wins”,…

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    Organizing Your Beginning of the Year Tasks

    August 31, 2020 /

    Hi, teacher’s! Welcome to the My Adventures in ESL podcast. I am your host, Millie, and I am excited to be here with you all today.  In today’s episode, we are going to be talking about how you can organize your beginning of the school year using online task boards. I love doing this. I just did a really in-depth professional development for the members of my program, the ESL Teacher Master Plan, on this. And after that they were getting organized. So I can not wait to give you an overview today of this training so you can start implementing this in your classroom. Now, before we jump into…

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    Using Mainstream Learning for Your Language Learners

    August 24, 2020 /

    Hello, teachers, and welcome to today’s episode. Today, we are going to be talking about using mainstream curriculum for your language learners. Now, before we jump into today’s topic, I want you to think about a “win” that you had over the last week. I want you to share those “wins” and celebrate those “wins”. And every week I want to highlight a teacher’s “win”. Remember, I always say that it can be big, it can be small. A win is always a celebration, and  I want to celebrate your wins with you. Our community, My Adventures in ESL, wants to celebrate the wins with you. And I want to…

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    Building Relationships During Virtual Learing

    August 17, 2020 /

    Welcome, teachers. I am so excited to be here with you today as we talk about how you can build relationships with your language learners while we are participating in a virtual learning session this school year. Now, as we jump into today’s topic, I always want to encourage you to reflect on your “wins” for the week, even though it’s in the middle of the summer, you have some wins for this week that you can celebrate. I know a lot of you all are creating your Bitmoji classrooms. I know you are working on those routines and procedures for virtual learning. We were just talking about how we…

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    Virtual Classroom Management

    August 10, 2020 /

    Welcome, teachers, I am Millie, and we are officially back. I am excited, as usual, to be here and to share with you all some amazing topics for this upcoming school year. Now, as usual, before we jump into today’s topic, I would like you to take a moment to reflect on any wins that you had for the week. Was there something that you did that you are proud of? Did you attend a professional development? Did you have a light bulb moment about something? So take a moment to reflect on those. One of the things that I’m being encouraged to do, and I want you all to…

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