Literacy Development and Engagement
Literacy development for English Language Learners (ELLs) is a contested context, as consensus in the research literature is historically...
Developing Social and Academic Oral Skills
A primary goal of English language instruction for English Language Learners (ELLs) is to become proficient at communication, which...
Building collaborative creations of power through pedagogy
Identity construction through language use is an ongoing, continuous, and dynamic process (Larsen-Freeman & Cameron, 2007). Furthermore,...
Preparing for ELLs
In this portfolio submission I am entering three further artifacts that help to document my developing understanding of how to prepare...
Theoretical Foundations - Teaching English Language Learners
English Language Learners (ELLs) are " students in provincially funded English language schools whose first language is a language other...
Brain-based Learning
The contemporary observation that students further learn from what they already know is one that can be traced back to the alleged...
Mathematical learning through five areas
For this posting, I've sketched out five distinct descriptions of: - what I specifically learned; - pivotal moments of when such learning...
Community organizations as mediators in the home-school partnership for mathematics education
The question of what is out there in the mathematical community with respect to such being used to build a stronger alliance between...
Accommodations, Modifications, and Alternative Programming
Assessment is data collection (Hutchinson, 2017). It refers to sourcing multiple types and pathways of information about a student or...
Assessment practice in inclusive education
What is assessment? According to the Growing Success (2010), “assessment is the process of gathering information that accurately reflects...