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the merit pay issue depends on the state you teach in. They don't do anything like this in the northeast. It tends to be something they do in the south, where teachers have lousy benefits anyway (georgia has no teacher's union, can youbelieve that! and many florida districts make you wait 30 days be...

:arrow: try the BVAT (bilingual verban ability test), from Riverside Publishing. It assesses congnitive language ability in English and then in English and the native language combined (any items that the child doesn't know in english, he/she gets to answer in the native language at a subseqquent te...

Hi, A number of years ago I taught a child who was adopted from Russian orphanages. The first one had already been here a year by the tie I started working here. She spoke English "fluently" (I put that in quotes b/c it was the typical case of superficially sounding like a native speaker, but when y...