Let’s chat, shall we?
Hello, everyone. I’m trying out this blog to get more people involved in what we are doing. We need a space to gather and discuss what’s going on with English Language Learners in our neck of the woods. What issues are you having? How do you get along? Any new lessons you’d like to pass on?
My recent issue is the national TESOL meeting, scheduled for April in New York City. It’s close enough for most of us to get there without too much trouble, but it doesn’t help when administration finally decides that one can go–just after all the rooms filled up in the hosting hotels. Ugh.
Conferences are amazing things that can give you a new reason to return to the classroom with new ideas and new approaches, but when the support is not there, the 10 people who they planned to provide money for (though not enough to cover all expenses) dwindles to four.
I hope to see many of you there, and at our conference in May so we can share ideas. After all, isn’t that what teachers should be doing anyway?
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So what would you like to talk about? How much you should be seeing your students and can’t? Collaboration (or lack thereof) with mainstream teachers? Leave me a comment, and let’s get this started…
Hi, I googled NNETESOL today and saw this weblog. It doesn’t look like it took off. I think the idea is great. I would like to suggest that you post this on the NH ESOL Listserv – NHESLNet@lab.brown.edu. General info about the listserv is at http://list.alliance.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/nheslnet, including how to request access, etc. I believe that the make-up of this group is ELL educators in NH.
I teach in a self-contained magnet classroom in Manchester, NH.
Kelly was right. We need to get this site going. So I am starting a blog on the site and then trying to send people here. This way you can post your comments right away and people can respond…
beth