Teacher Discussion Forums

I am interested in teaching in other counties. What do I need to start my search? What endorsement or certificate will I need? Will I be able to carry my pension and years of service with me?

I just read an article about the great need of bilingual citizen to fulfill Government and myriad job. These jobs are essential our counties well being and safety. Although the government supports National Language Act of 2009, it’s really those not help our nation need of bilinguage citizen to full...

Fruit for thought: I taught ESL in Puerto Rico for two years, and I was amazed the way students remember how to spell. They will sound out the word in Spanish and the way it sound, was how they will spell the word. The ironic thing is that the word was spell correctly.

I am a special education teacher who is currently taking the ESl/bilingual education endorsement. As a special education teacher, I find that there really is not a huge different when it come to educating Special needs and ESL students. For what I have seen so far, the one immense different is the c...

I am so mystified by the controversial Laws in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts that affects ESL Students! I am aware that they are able to save money, but at what expense. The research show low performance score after proposition 227. So why would Arizona and Massachusetts embark in the exped...

I have been teaching Special Education for over ten years. I am taking courses to earn my Bilingual/ESl certification. For what I have observed, Teaching ESL is much like special education. You have to expose the student to different learning style. You can utilize all five senses; such as hands on ...

I am reading Forbidden Language Edited by. Patricia Gandare and Megan Hopkins. In the first two chapters, they expressed unfair laws to ESL student. I am not clear how this been going on for year and no one has an answer to this controversial topic. . . What can we do to help change these unfair law...

I really think that it depends on what movies students are watching! If they are watching movies that are grammatically incorrect, I cannot see how that’s going to help them with the English language. They can watch movies from the fifty’s and sixty’s, those movies were make with proper grammar in m...