SWITCHING SCHOOLS

.... As in, RIGHT NOW. He's in the middle of sixth grade and we live in Eslöv's kommun . A kommun is relatively analogous to a county, and even though we live right ... village is split in half by the river that marks the boundary line, we ended up with Eslöv instead of Lund. And unfortunately, Eslöv is much the poorer in both money and resources, at least when it comes to small village schools like ...

Hahaha

... in having crap published. There are just publishing credits. Sweet legitimacy. Yesterday I was at a high school orientation with R who will be entering grade nine next fall. I was on a tour, and the ESL teacher was asking the group to find eight errors in a text that was on the blackboard. When everyone was done, I piped up about the two-sentences-smooshed-together error, and got a nice lil ...

Train Train

... time he was in BC. Bummer. I learned that his original profession was as an ESL teacher but that didn't go well. He told me that during his teaching practicum, ... and gave him a poor review, explaining that the students pay money to attend these ESL classes. He rebutted that he too had paid money to learn to become an ESL teacher and that "we're all paying someone ... that's the name of the game...

[BRIEF NOTE] On the Roma diaspora to Canada and punishing the sending countries

... shaky regard for school, the wave of Roma children give fresh urgency to the term "at-risk." Schools across Toronto and Hamilton, caught largely by surprise, are rushing to educate staff, hire more ESL teachers and find Hungarian and Czech interpreters for everything from report cards to welcome kits. "We've got major problems with this wave of students and we need help – we've had more than 100...

...in Virginia. I remember a big Vietnamese wave of immigrants when I was in elementary school, and now, as an ESL teacher, I am always coming across really old teacher made materials from that period. I am just wondering why her parents made that decision. There may have been ESL services in her county at that time. Also, if she started school at 6, isn't that a year...

[URBAN NOTE] Two changing streets

...'s sandy shoals, bulldozers clear space for a million public park to feature waterfalls and play structures. Street churches, whose preaching was originally for the rich, offer ESL classes and counselling between prayers. Social housing, gentrification, immigrants, magnificent parkland, the country's highest concentration of homeless, political activists, acts of kindness, acts of violence, ...

SF 4 ESL

Need a recommendation: what's a classic science fiction short story that would be appropriate for a high-intermediate (there's that word again!!) ESL class? (Or maybe an excerpt that's complete in itself?)

esl teachers? anyone?

... been useless. I've been trolling just about every "recruitment" site I can find like EPIK, Wall Street Institute, Korvia, Park ESL, YBM, Pagoda along with Dave's ESL site and I'm more confused (though informed) than I was at the beginning. Basically, I just want to teach in and around Seoul and not wind ...

lots of letters.

...i no longer go to the same college as you. actually, you didn't even care to know where i transferred. i'm never talking to you again. stop blaming it on your limited english abilities. i know ESL people who transferred from their community college in two years, and you still haven't gotten any type of degree in eight years. you're just lazy. so keep asking random people to write your papers or to...

Неделя, (щЁлк)

..., говорит, что весь класс принял вежливость за доброту и приветливость за демократичность и теперь плюхи достаются всем и каждому. Верю. По остальным предметам вроде все в порядке, но эти проваленные - ESL, и от преподши зависит как долго еще Блондинке прийдется ходить на этот предмет, сколько будет потеряно времени. Во вторник пойду тетку умасливать. В свое рабочее время. Блинваще. Ничего, ...