スパックマン クリス · @chris_spackman
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First day of HS classes tomorrow. I'm still trying to get records from previous schools!! Have a few students who I'm not sure if they are / or not. ("Not" meaning they already placed out of services - they are definitely at least [emergent] bilingual.)

So, looking forward to talking with them tomorrow.

#emeb #englishlearners

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スパックマン クリス · @chris_spackman
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Productive and educational (no pun intended) week. Completed a lot of prep for the new school year. Have more new (to our school) than I expected, so that's great news.

As always, looking forward to this weekend. Prepping for that now, then going to play some old-school .

#k12 #englishlearners #adultesl #quake3 #esol #esl

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スパックマン クリス · @chris_spackman
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Beginning of the school year. So, open houses (so 12+ hour work days) at two schools this week, another next week, and another the week after. start of the year is so much fun.

Good news is that we have lots of new at the schools this year, so I will have a lot of great students to work with.

#k12 #englishlearners #esol #esl

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スパックマン クリス · @chris_spackman
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Got lots done today on prep for my presentation / workshop at . Presentation slides (LaTeX Beamer, ofc), Google Forms in several languages, docs to translate, html pages of links, as well as QR codes. So, productive day.

Also have to present about and supporting to new staff at school tomorrow, so, oops, should probably prepare for that too.

#gtechsummit23 #esol #englishlearners #k12

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スパックマン クリス · @chris_spackman
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I'm presenting at the next week (August 8). My topic is "Technology to Support English Learners & Multilingual Families".

I'll cover federal requirements, translation sites, general document and video accessibility (for ML families and others), and general best practices for supporting in the classroom (including "don't translate *everything*").

Thoughts or ideas? I'm assuming most are aware of a lot, but maybe not in deep detail.

#gtechsummit23 #k12 #englishlearners

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スパックマン クリス · @chris_spackman
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There should be more programs to help USA experience living in another language and culture. Not only would many have a much better idea of what experience, but the teachers would also hopefully be better able to explain the importance of knowing / respecting more languages and cultures to the monolingual, monocultural students.

I can dream, right?

#k12 #teachers #englishlearners #esol #esl #tesol

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スパックマン クリス · @chris_spackman
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Just remembered: I submitted an editorial to two weeks ago tomorrow. If I don't hear anything from them by end of day tomorrow, I'll post the article on my own site.

It basically says that white mono-lingual teachers should try living in a different language and culture to help them understand what many English Learners are going through.

Practical? Not especially.
Needed? Yes.

#edweek #esol #esl #englishlearners

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スパックマン クリス · @chris_spackman
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@teachertiger @edutooters

Agree!

We used to have an exception for who benefited from Google Translate in the classroom. Now, everyone has a chromebook, so less of an issue.

I'm currently working on helping content teachers NOT just Google Translate everything for the students.

#englishlearners

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I am an teacher. I support in k-12. I've been in and education for ... wow ... over 25 years.

Online schooling from March 2020 through about April 2021 was the worst, most stressful, time in my professional life.

We had to do it, and I had great colleagues and admins. It could have been much worse. But, still, that was a very bad, most horrible year professionally.

#esol #englishlearners #efl #esl

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Getting started updating my website. I mostly make available licensed readings for and studnets / / and some other resources for teachers.

Soooo many sites have readings, some at various levels, but in my experience, they don't always consider specifically, nor do they provide decent formatting.

For example: and idioms can be difficult for ELs. Vocab in general. Translations are a stopgap, not a solution.

#creativecommons #k12 #esol #emeb #els #englishlearners #oer #edtech #phrasalverbs

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