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…

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.…

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…

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”,…

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…

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…

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…

Hello, welcome all-star teachers to the My Adventures in ESL podcast. Now, as we jump today’s topic, I would like for you to reflect on the week. What were some high points of the week that you are proud of? And I also want to thank all of the Master Planners who have joined the program. I am so excited to be working with you this upcoming school year. Now, as you know, every week I want to highlight a teachers win and a win can be big. It can be small, it could be medium size. And I want you to celebrate your wins throughout the week, and I…