February 23rd, 2010
Category: ESL Articles
Tags: at, Easier, English, French, seven, Than, Ways
span style=”font-family: Arial;” lang=”EN-US”> form of a verb when used as a noun is âgerundâ. The âgérondifâ also exists in French, i.e. âmarchantâ, but it is virtually never used to replace an infinitive. So you have no choice. The correct form is âmarcherâ, because it is the only form. Simple, isnât it?
Halt! Enough!
Do you feel that that all this talk about the âsimplicitiesâ of French is beginning to look like camouflage for its manifest difficulties? To a certain extent, you are right. However, the purpose here is not to hide Frenchâs difficulties. But to minimize them by highlighting those…
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February 18th, 2010
Category: World literacy
Tags: at, College, educated, grandchildren, Grandparents, More, recall, schooling, seniors, Than, Vocabulary, Years
Education being vocabulary, world history, civics and Cultural Literacy as defined by E.D. Hirsch.
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January 3rd, 2010
Category: Illiteracy HELP
Tags: at, Common, Illiteracy, India, Indian, Literacy, More, Much, Northern, southern, Than
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December 29th, 2009
Category: Literacy Articles
Tags: at, It's, Just, Literacy, More, Reading, Than, Writing
I carry the torch of good writing: make no mistake about that. But there is another critical piece to conveying messages successfully in today’s hurry-up, fast-paced, techno-world. That piece is the design of your documents.
No, you don’t need to be an expert designer, nor do you need to hire one. What you DO need is to know the basics of document design to help you convey information clearly, concisely, accurately, and cost effectively. Let’s take a look at what those design strategies are:
1. White space: Believe it or not, white space is one of your most effective design…
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December 28th, 2009
Category: Literacy Education
Tags: at, Cannot, deligence, Education, Important, Lack, Literacy, Made, meaninglessness, More, Than
people?
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December 14th, 2009
Category: ESL Literacy
Tags: able, at, English, ESL, Languages, Order, Speak, teacher, Than
I am interested in teaching in NYC. I know they need ESL teachers and would love to get a certification in it, but I only speak English. Is this a problem?
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December 12th, 2009
Category: Articles
Tags: Actions, albert mehrabian, at, Congruency, General, Less, Louder, More, r words, Reading, Speak, Talk, Teach, Than, Words
Why use nonverbal classroom management techniques?
We talk and talk and talk … and very often we are frustrated by the feeling that our students simply aren’t listening or aren’t taking our verbal instructions seriously.
Professor Albert Mehrabian, a pioneer since the 60s in communication research, determined during a communications project for the University of California that there are 3 factors that influence the effect a conversation has. These are:
7% verbal = the words which are spoken
38% vocal = how these words sound, and
55% visual = how you look when you say them.
That comes to 7%…
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December 8th, 2009
Category: Adult Literacy-2
Tags: Adult, applying, at, Erotica, Literacy, Look, Resume, sales, store, Than, Work, Would
I’m applying to work at an Adult love boutique near my house, the owner is a really neat guy! He had a help wanted sign up a couple of weeks ago, he told me to make a resume and to fax it to him, do you think a Love Boutique would be looking for something other than competence in sales and customer service? other than knowledge in POS and computer literacy?
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A lot of doomsayers love to believe we live in the ‘end times’ and they do this by highlighting every problem society has and acting as if we are on the verge of civilizations collapse, thus the end times. Well as we are starting a new year, I would like to ask all of you (regardless of religion or lack thereof) to tell me what is better today then in 1959? 1909?
I have my bachelor’s in early childhood education and my master’s in elementary reading and literacy. What other options do I have if I want to leave the classroom?