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Hey! So for this activity, I looked at the Skill-Based Plan Lesson provided on 'Fixing Aboriginal Education'.  In summary, some Vocabulary activities can include: Preparing a Kahoot! quiz based on the vocabulary that was looked at in the lesson (if you were wanting something more interactive). Or even have the students prepare a Kahoot! quiz for their peers using the vocabulary viewed and their definitions. Group discussions. So that students can use the newly acquired vocabulary and learn new ones from peers. Have them answer some questions on the readings, both written and spoken. Later can be a class discussion. Such as, what do you consider a good education? what are some suggestions you could give to motivate Indigenous Education? What is education like from where you came? The more advance Ss can even change a paragraph into a different tense. Have Ss make a list on the board of new vocabulary put in groups/pairs and give them a set of vocabulary to...

This Think Aloud activity was pretty nifty, I needed to use the tool screencastify (there was another option but I used this one) and it took a few seconds to figure out how to use it properly, sadly this thing kept cutting me off, hahah or I'm just a slow reader 😂.. Anyways, I really did like this tool, I'll for sure keep it in my bad of tricks. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5mAdObwq1xjb0I4LUN4YnBfWWc/view Reference: Now Staff. (2017). Survivors of residential school tell their stories. Retrieved from:   https://nowtoronto.com/news/residential-schools-survivors-stories/

Unit 2 - Adapting a Text As to get into the spirit of Halloween, I decided to look at a text relating to this celebration. I am not teaching at the moment; However, I’ll would be adapting this text for mainly ESL classes for high school students, ages between 16 -18 at the advanced level.     The course stated that there are three criteria’s for selecting a text: Suitability, Exploitability, and Readability. Suitability : Is this text interesting and appropriate for my class? Yes, I believe it is. The students are at the age in which the dilemma of the article states. I also believe it would be interesting for all English Language Learners to know the customs of the Country they are staying in and the fact that their fellow student/friends and school will be experiencing these customs. Therefore it is relevant and they could easily relate to the issue at hand. Is this text challenging? Yes, but in a good way. There will be new words that they will experience...

Hey! So last week, as I was reading my TESL course, we were to talk about our PLN (Personal/Professional Learning Network). In which we were to state our connections, with people and the media, as in, where do we find and look for ideas? Where do we get information and such.  So we were to do a collage or a drawing of our 'networking'. As I did this, I was already thinking that my networking was going to be pretty sad, since I don't really delve into social media that much, but when I was done with my schema it didn't seem so bad. I know for sure that I'll need to do more 'networking', it's not really my forte. But I do keep in touch with some of my old classmates from Memorial University Of Newfoundland and Labrador, Faculty of Education of 2016 (shout out!😁), we use Facebook to keep in touch and pass ideas or ask for help, and my co-op teacher from practicum, among others. This is all I have on this topic of now. Laters! 😉

Hey all! This is my first post on my blog (exciting!). Here I will try to post things solely on Education and Teaching, it being local or international, as well as great ideas that I have come across.  I'll also be mentioning some things I come across in my online TESL course.  Laters! 😉  ✋