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3 Comments Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: at, Daughters, Educational, educational literacy, educational rights, iep, iep questions, Information, Literacy, Reading, Rights, senco, Special, special education, Spelling, Writing

THANK YOU – To all those who replied to my last question requarding my daughter every single reply gave me much to work on and enabled me to take a hard stance towards her school in 24 hrs i received notice she would receive maths tuition withing a snall group then noticed the next day senco had sat and read with her in the previous 4 weeks of her new year start she’d had no extra support what so ever ‘ AGAIN THANK YOU ALL MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIFE OF ANOTHER.
HOWEVER – After taking the advice of some…

2 Comments Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: About, at, Diary, Emergency, examples reflective diaries, Grammar, Happy, Help, Literacy, Reading, Reflective, reflective diaries, reflective diary, reflective diary example, reflective diary examples, reflective diary of a teaching assistant, reflective diary teaching, teaching assistant reflective diary, Writing, writing a reflective diary

I am doing Teaching Assistant course and I am also doing voluntarily training in school. I have to write a reflective diary.
This is my first diary writing so someone can check my grammar mistakes please!!!!
I have started my work placement for last two weeks. This is my last weeks reflective diary.
In the morning, I did literacy. I worked with the individual child ‘J’ reading time which was words with pictures. Some pictures and words she couldn’t understand that time she needed my support.
For the example : the word is : LOOK and the picture sign is : face with hand.
The…

11 Comments Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: "an education" jew, About, at, Jewish, judaism, Literacy, Right, This

The “A” of Judaism: The angel taught us everything we need to know. That’s why we recognize truth when we find it.
The “B” of Judaism: The Almighty created us for maximum pleasure.
The “C” of Judaism: We are not sinners, we just make mistakes.
The “D” of Judaism: To avoid mistakes and achieve our potential, get an education about life.
The “E” of Judaism: The Torah is our instructions for living.
if you need the resource here it is…

http://www.aish.com/literacy/judaism123/The_ABCs_of_Judaism.asp

3 Comments Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: at, Casual, Employee, Help, Literacy, Please, Trouble.

I was employed for aprox. 7 days as casual. I rang up and quite over the phone, because I felt very uneasy about job and wasn’t given enough instruction on the first and only shift I did.
I am very keen to still work in the industry and am looking for employment.
Now a few weeks later I get a phone call from my X employers saying that I’m not aloud to work in the field or line of work anywhere in a 100 km. radius of them. Apparently i signed a contract saying “If I leave there company, I will not…

1 Comment Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: About, adult education, Advice, at, Career, career teacher, english as a second language, english as a second language students, esl jobs, esl teaching jobs, Jobs, Literacy, Looking, Reading, second language, Teaching/training

I have my bachelor’s degree and I currently teach in adult education and with English As a Second Language students. I love my job.. but they can’t afford to take me on full time. I want to remain in the teaching/training/instruction field. I have tried thinking of everything, but I think there might be a career or two I have left out in my thought process. I basically want something where I am working with people, either one on one or in small groups. It doesn’t have to be in education… I just don’t want a desk job! Any ideas…

3 Comments Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: "arkansas advocates for children", Accomplishments, arkansas, at, bio, dg, eleanor mondale, esol, General, gulf war syndrome, Hillary, islam, Literacy, Obama, obama accomplishments, Post, since, Someone, web, Would

This is only a short list of the good she has done, starting back in her early life.
You can pull it up by bringing her history BIO up online. There is much much more.
Early life
Raised in a politically conservative household,[11] at age thirteen she helped canvass South Side Chicago following the very close 1960 U.S. presidential election, finding evidence of electoral fraud against Republican candidate Richard Nixon,[12] and volunteered for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the U.S. presidential election of 1964.[13] Her early political development was shaped most strongly by her energizing high school history teacher, who got her to…

3 Comments Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: at, Characteristics, Culture, Develop, Independently, Literacy, Predictive, Religious, They, Whether, Writing

Can an analysis of the “religious characteristics” of a culture be predictive in any way of whether the culture was able (or will be able) to independently (i.e. without outside help from an already-literate society) develop its own written-language system?
(Related to that question: Can anyone cite a link to text or maps which indicate the cultures which are believed to have developed their own writing system(s) without outside instruction? What kinds of cultures are likely to develop their own written language system?)
[Yes, some will no doubt post the story of Sequoyah, who is a rare case in modern times of…

9 Comments Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: at, Being, Bilingual, bilingual education, dg, Disrespectful, Insulted, Literacy, Principal, Reading, Rude, teacher, teachers-do i have to tell my principal if i apply for another job?, Tell, Thoughts

I’ve been teaching for 11 years.I have a master’s degree in bilingual education and heritage languages,literacy and leadership.I’ve received extensive training to provide the best possible instruction to my English learners.I always teach the beginning ELs and am very proud of their achievements and state test scores.I’ve received only praise from former principals.Our new principal acts like only he knows the correct methods of teaching.After an informal observation of a reading fluency/comprehension lesson,he called me into his office to say it was unprepared(??),a waste of instructional minutes and should only take 5 minutes,not 20.Students do buddy reading while I listen…

1 Comment Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: "legal issues in education", annotated bibliography, at, Bibliography, differentiated instruction, Education, education research topics, english research project ideas, Help, Ideas, ideas for my mla paper, Information, Literacy, motivational ideas, Please, possible research topics, powerpoint presentation on education, Project, Research, research project ideas, Technology

Here is my assignment:
Your task is to research and present a 15-20 minute presentation on strategies that reflect contemporary issues facing the field of education. Possible research topics include literacy, motivational strategies, assesment strategies, questioning techniques, disipline models, use of technology, cooperative learning models, legal issues in education, professional rights and responsibilities, differentiated instruction, inclusion, multicultural literature, diversity, etc. Once you select a topic, you will research and prepare an annotated bibliography. Using the information you gave gathered, you will put together a powerpoint presentation to aid in presenting your topic. Your presentation will be in front of a class…

1 Comment Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: Academic, academic writing skills, at, Grammar, Literacy, Skills, Vocabulary, what is academic writing, Writing

So we’re taking a look at my school’s latest release of test scores. 44% of our juniors passed the state writing exam (a 5-paragraph response to a prompt, graded holistically on organization, cohesion, vocabulary, mechanics, effectiveness). The state average was 40%.
Our building has been railing on academic writing across the curriculum…or so it seems. Every year we have 2 school-wide writing prompts and each student gets individual feedback. But it’s not solid (no standardized prompts, training on scoring or feedback).
60% of Michigan’s juniors aren’t able to successfully write a 5 paragraph essay. And I look at our curriculum — where…