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During my years as a college student, I was lucky enough to be encouraged to ask questions by many of my esteemed professors. But instead of me simply answering the questions the way I believed they wanted them to be answered, they created a classroom environment where I as well as my classmates could seek out multiple plausible answers through open discussions and the sharing of ideas. Creating and maintaining such an environment is the essence of the Socratic Method and is what my teaching philosophy is founded on. My teaching philosophy revolves around the notion that while students will be provided with…

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This v-log is closed captioned for the literarily impaired.
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The person has basic reading skills, graduated college and all BUT has a very hard time with larger words. I am wanting to help,and the person wants my help, but i need to know of a way to do so effectively without making the person feel badly. It amazes me how the education system does not spot such problems..

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The Priority Method evolved from theories from first and second language acquisition and child language development. Along with error analysis theories, technical advances in equipment have allowed the Priority Method to offer a complete language diagnostic, analysis and training format. Its significant variation from all previous SLA pedagogy is that it concentrates on areas of weakness, prioritizing common areas of transitional errors from L1 to L2, that commonly occur in the phonetic production and delivery of the ESL student, and focuses on the key areas that have significant sociolinguistic and linguistic effects on the ESL student. Why prioritize errors…

4 Comments Category: Children Literacy
Tags: homeschool, Homeschooling, Jefferson, Method, Thomas

I saw a clip today on CBS on which a homeschooling mom said she uses the Thomas Jefferson method. http://www.cbsnews. com/sections/ i_video/main5002 51.shtml? id=3917028n

I’d say that we are somewhere between unschooling and eclectic homeschoolers; I have never focused too much on “method” and so am unfamiliar with this.

I’m very curious. What exactly is the Thomas Jefferson Method?
In the video clip, the woman says you can get a child from pre-literacy to high school level in 100 hours.
How is this possible?
Is it too late to utilize this method with a teen?

Thanks! :)
*twenty-one minutes later*

Hmm apparently I’m not the only one…

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Learning or improving upon a second language is no longer confined to rote learning audio cassette tapes or out of date computer language programs on cd-rom that look like they were created in the late 1980’s. People around the world are slowly starting to visit online language websites that cater to a diverse set of creative teaching methods largely integrating web 2.0 technologies that create an environment of collaboration and sharing amongst its users.

Methods that didn’t exist 10 years ago are now available to millions of language learners across the world. Not only do these new methods promise convenience, they…