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Hi! I'm a teacher in NYC and in the process of helping another teacher mentor her Jamaican colleague with classroom mgt skills. The problem is that her students are giving her a difficult time: while she is a great math teacher, she (an older woman) is unaccustomed to the culture of her students, an...

I'm a middle school ESL teacher in the NYC school system W/ 47 languages represented in my classes each day. I use video as an assessment tool for the kids and as a progress report tool for myself... By videotaping each child on their own tape (supplied by them) at least 4 times through the year, th...