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8 Tips for Transforming School Culture
Montie Koehn, an educator in Oklahoma public schools, writes about Transforming school culture through mutual respect. Listing eight basic principles to affirm, Koehn claims that these simple ways of showing respect can create a more sustaining and healthy educational environment. How many of these tips do you see in your place of work?
Storytelling and Language Learning
Matthew James Friday’s article on Why Storytelling in the Classroom Matters highlights storytelling with children, emphasising the role of stories in language learning. Although the types of stories may be different, this holds true for adult education as well.
50 Links For Learning & Teaching English
All language educators have their go-to websites. This annotated list of links may have some new ones to add to yours!
Women as Leaders and Peacemakers Infographic
Alliance for Peacebuilding posted a helpful infographic on Women as Leaders and Peacemakers. This could be a discussion starter in a class, or an example for students to make their own infographic on another peace-related topic.
3 Approaches to Curriculum: Problem, Project, or Inquiry
Problem-based, project-based, and inquiry-based approaches to curriculum are all conducive to a peace education lens and can promote collaborative and constructivist learning. This article summarises the similarities and differences among the three approaches. While language curriculum has been slow in adopting any of these, all can contribute greatly to the language classroom. Please feel free … Continue reading
Humility as a Language Learning Tool
What role does humility play in learning? This article highlights the importance of starting with humility both as learner and educator in classroom. Particularly with language education, teachers are seen as the “experts” and it becomes difficult not to live into that perception. Perhaps some of the writer’s suggestions could be helpful in starting with … Continue reading
Peace and Justice Digital Resources at Wayne State University
This collection of resource lists for adults and youth is hosted by the Citizens for Peace: Peace and Justice Digital Resource Center at Wayne State University. Continue reading
Leadership, Authority and Being “Bossy”
Another provoking analysis from the blog “Linguistic Pulse”shows the gendered nature of the use of the word “bossy.” Continue reading
An Analysis of “Who is articulate?”
This article presents an interesting analysis of the use of the word “articulate” in relation to racial prejudice in the US. Continue reading
English Teachers as Gatekeepers
In this TED talk, Patricia Ryan shares her observations from more than 30 years of teaching English. Continue reading
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