An Innovation Venture!
Innovation Month! Come February and the mental swing toward radical or incremental changes is very much palpable around our campus. This, after all, is Innovation Month! Along my principle of “l...
Curriculum & Materials Archives - Foundations Newsletter
Number Cruncher
Marking listening exams can be demoralizing. Our students often perform poorly on gapfill activities where they are required to add a number such as a price, a date or a percentage. Teachers lamen...
Free Printables: Hurry ...
Hurry up before it’s too late. Scholastic just made 50+ worksheets available for teachers to download and use in their classes, for free! Their worksheets cover many skills and topics including...
Film and writing
An interesting way to motivate students to write is to use film. I have used film to encourage my students to write in different writing genres such as narrative and dialogue. They have written a jour...
Idioms in the ESL Class...
As a child, I found great joy in reading the Amelia Bedelia series written by Peggy Parish. Amelia, the protagonist, works as a housemaid for a wealthy family. In each story of the series, Amelia find...
My Personal Experience ...
I wrote in a previous article about how opponents to the traditional learning environment in a “brick and mortar” class, believe that this is an old style of learning. They argue that the new onli...