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    What You Truly Need to Grow as a Teacher.

    19 Mar 2019 /

    Teachers grow. They do. And I am not talking about professional development and conferences and workshops. Teachers grow into or out of their profession. When teachers grow into their profession, they find their sweet spot in it. They develop the level of comfort, efficiency, and happiness that make them feel they are in the right place. It might take a year or 5, but usually, 5 years is said to be the period when a young or enter-level teacher decides on staying in or leaving the profession. Some teachers grow out of their profession, literally. There are those professionals who, after trying to adjust and find whether they belong, come…

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    Yanina

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    10 Lessons I Learned My First 2 Years of Teaching.

    9 May 2018

    What Do You Do When You Are On The Brink of Quitting Your Teaching Job?

    18 Dec 2018
  • EFFECTIVE TEACHER

    Content Area Teacher and ESL Teacher “Don’t Click”: What To Do?!

    26 Feb 2019 /

    As an ESL push-in teacher, I go to other teachers’ classrooms and support my students. I saw some great classes, and others were more hard to work in. This one is  tricky, but let me be honest: not everything that happens in the public school system is perfect. I  was in the class when there was no structure or what we call teaching and learning were not happening. Misbehavior was the consequence of students not knowing what to do, struggling, feeling confused. I did certain things that didn’t work and certain things that I thought would help me survive until the end of the school year. From that experience, I…

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    16 May 2018

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    15 Jan 2019

    Finding Relevance In Content For Our Students’ Lives.

    18 Sep 2018
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    Dos and Don’ts of Modifying Materials for Ells.

    19 Feb 2019 /

    In talking to ESL (often Bilingual) teachers about the tasks they find themselves doing over and over again, I often hear complains and concerns about translation and modification. I understand the pain although I never ever translated because, although I’m bilingual, I don’t speak Spanish, and most teachers who complain about the tasks of translating are Bilingual English-Spanish/ Spanish – English teachers. Starting my second year in a public schools system, I have been religiously creating procedures, formulas, strategies that place the boundaries between my work and personal time as well as alleviate the pressure to do everything. The most valuable thing I understood in my first years of teaching…

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    3 Apr 2019

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    How “WIDA Can-Do Charts” Help Me Plan and DifferentiateInstruction for English Language Learners?

    12 Feb 2019 /

    What is WIDA Can-Do Chart? The WIDA Can-Do Descriptors document is a number-one tool I make sure to fill out at the beginning of the school year. For those who need to refresh your memory, WIDA Can-Do Chart provides examples of academic language use for four specific communicative purposes: Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking. The information you need to fill out WIDA Can-Do Chart is ACCESS scores of your ELLs available through your ACCESS coordinator or Ellevation.com platform for which you would have an account from your school. In my school, I have an account on Ellevation.com where I download the WIDA ELP Standards Report. I look through each student’s…

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    19 Mar 2019

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    ESL Push-In: What To Focus On.

    5 Feb 2019 /

    The new year brings new hopes that this year will be easier, less stressful and more efficient. In fact, less overwhelm comes not only with efficiency but also with the ability to put things in perspective and focus only on things that matter. Indeed, we can work all day long, and it will never seem enough, especially in planning and putting resources together. In this post, I am sharing my list of 8 things that matter to me this year as an ESL push-in model teacher. 1.    Don’t try to save the world and everyone in it. Providing in-class push-in services can make your head spin if you think you…

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    What I Do For My Lesson Planning: ESL Push-in.

    29 Jan 2019 /

    Lesson plans can be a tedious job, but it all can be simplified if you know what to focus on and have some resources at hand to make the writing of the lesson plans smooth sailing. As an ESL push-in teacher, I am supposed to communicate with the content area teacher to know what will be covered on a specific day. Ideally, plans are available and are shared with you, but this is not always the case. That’s the reality. How lesson planning starts for an ESL push-in teacher. In the situation when the plans are available, the only thing I need to know is the lesson’s content objective. Based…

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    28 Aug 2018
  • EFFECTIVE TEACHER

    Mistakes ESL Push – In Teacher Might Make (Very Personal Reflection).

    22 Jan 2019 /

    When you are an ESL push-in teacher and go to different content area classes, you need to put yourself out there, talk to other teachers, co-teach, co-plan, cooperate, co-everything. And guess what? If you an introvert like me, it’s going to be tough to be in the limelight. It can be overwhelming and exhausting. So I know what you feel. However, I can give you a few principles you can stick to to alleviate the pressure of the responsibility to be everything and everywhere as well as avoid some major mistakes that will cost you time and energy. 1. Don’t volunteer to take on the responsibilities of others and don’t…

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  • EFFECTIVE TEACHER

    What’s With Packets?..

    15 Jan 2019 /

    I’ve been on both sides of the dilemma. I remember struggling to keep up with planning what would be considered an excellent lesson (according to my understanding then), drained after a long day of talking (over the students sometimes), anxious about what to teach next, having that tugging pain in my stomach, and realizing that today’s planning will drag into midnight. My first year of teaching I remember coming home, my throat aching and my head buzzing as if I was chased by a bee colony. Sure, there were days when I had no choice but survive at my table, trying to catch some needed emotional distress and hoping no…

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    Transition to Middle School from High School Survival Guide for a New ESL Push-In Model Teacher.

    8 Jan 2019 /

    I’ve recently changed jobs, and my biggest fear was to be as overwhelmed and lost as a felt during my first year of teaching. Besides, I transitioned from being a classroom ESL teacher and having 25-28 students to an ESL push-in model teacher, and that was very new to me. Apart from traveling to different classes to service language learners, the biggest challenge is to figure out what to do with 3-15 English learners of different levels scatteredin different areas, like Social Studies, Math, Science, Writing. Because the kids are in different grades and are at a variety of language levels, I ended up with 7 different content areas and…

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  • EFFECTIVE TEACHER

    5 Teacher’s Resources Worth of Your Time: Professional and Personal areas.

    25 Dec 2018 /

    With the overwhelming amount of resources available online, its quite hard to track your time looking for what you really need when it comes to your professional development and personal needs. You might end up frustrated with the choices that you have, the quality of resources or even the lack of continuity that you need. In this post, I’m sharing 5 go-to resources that will help your professional development and restore your emotional sanity. 1. Cult Of Pedagogy by Jennifer Gonzalez.  I value this resource for its dedication to quality and research. Jennifer talks about relevant topics in education and provides“what-you-can-do-tomorrow” ideas from the perspective of a classroom teacher. It’s…

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