Marina Menéndez

Marina Menéndez, Argentina, Private, Language Teaching

I'm a graduated Spanish Teacher and English>Spanish Translator.

Español para Extranjeros
Recursos, artículos, foros, debates, enlaces y más para profesores de ELE (Español como Lengua Extranjera)/ ELSE (Español Lengua Segunda/Extranjera).

Theme: ELSE, ELE, education, Spanish, second language, foreign language, languages, cultural studies, multicultural, communication, language learning, resources, teaching, methodology, lessons, TICS, writing, reading, speaking, listening, skills, competencies, grammar, ser y estar, phonology, pragmatics, vocabulary, gestures, sociology, immigration

Keith Schoch

Keith Schoch, USA, Primary, Secondary, Reading

Keith Schoch is a professional educator specializing in professional development for organizations such as the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), the New Jersey Association of Supervision and Curriculum Design (NJASCD), the New York State Reading Association (NYSRA), and the American Camping Association (ACA).

Keith Schoch is the author of The Salvation Army Eastern Territory Camp Staff Orientation and Training Manual which is used in Salvation Army day and resident camps throughout the Northeastern United States.

He continues to be involved with that organization’s camping ministry through leadership development and staff in-services on such topics as behavioral interventions, programming, training, and camper and staff recruitment.

Teach With Picture Books
Picture book summaries, guiding questions, and cross-curricular extensions, as well as links to other sites promoting teaching with pictures.

Teaching that Sticks
Teaching that Sticks owes its title and its purpose to the remarkable book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath. As educators, whether in the classroom or in the training room, we are constantly seeking ways to give our ideas "stickiness," a term coined in The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. This blog is intended to share one teacher's insights and observations about small ways to make teaching stick.

How to Teach a Novel
Here you'll find book recommendations, teaching articles and links, as well as occasional original teaching aids.

Theme: picture books, reading, reading instruction, literacy, resources, language arts, multicultural, teaching with themes, 21st century skills, teaching reading, made to stick, teaching strategies, stickiness, innovation, retention, motivation, concrete, story, simple, professional resources

Poornima D'Souza

Poornima D'Souza, USA, Primary, ESL

Hi! I’m Poornima D’Souza. I work as a School Home Liaison with the Sioux Falls School District. I’m a bridge between the school and the refugee & immigrant students and their families. I absolutely love my job, as it is challenging and a new experience every day.

Multicultural Mosaic
Multicultural Mosaic is about diversity.

Theme: ELL, ESL, english Language, diversity, multicultural, teacher, education

Ira David Socol

Ira David Socol, USA, All Sectors, Special Educational Needs

Ira David Socol is a Special Education Technology Scholar at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. He is also an Assistive Technology Specialist with the State of Michigan's Vocational Rehabilitation Agency. His research is focused on the use of technologies in ways that make classrooms fully inclusive at all age levels, with an emphasis on the use of free and ubiquitous devices and software whenever possible, because these are the solutions most likely to serve student needs throughout their lifespan.

An important part of his work is what he calls, "Toolbelt Theory." The idea that all learners need to assemble a variety of technological solutions which support their learning needs. This shifts the decision making to the student and helps the student learn how to analyse and choose technology now and throughout their life.

Ira uses assistive technologies himself to assist in reading and writing. He entered the field by searching for solutions to his own issues. Then completed the Assistive Technology Applications Certification Program at California State University - Northridge. He has presented a conferences in the US and Europe on his research, and is the author of one novel (The Drool Room) and one short story collection (A Certain Place of Dreams).

SpeEdChange
SpeEdChange looks at technological changes, structural changes, and pedagogical changes which can make the classroom, the school, the university truly inclusive.

Theme: universal Design, inclusion, special needs, multicultural, ICT, web 2.0

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