Teacher Discussion Forums

I agree that using technology to facilitate learning and teaching is becoming very useful and possibly essential in the classroom. I believe in using a combination of using technology and paper materials. I am taking a class at USF called "Technology in the Foreign & Second Language Classroom." I re...

Is IEP effective and widely used for Elementary School Aged Students? Is the native language used at all for teaching English grammar. I am teaching English in Taiwan at a English Cram school and it appears you still need to use Chinese to explain English Grammar also for the definition or translati...

I'll begin with a story. A friend of mine was teaching in a Chinese middle school. He asked the students 'what food do you like?'. The students didn't understand, 'food? what is food?'. Even the Chinese teacher didn't recognize it. My friend kept saying the word, becoming more and more frustrated a...