Differentiation
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Why the word Rigor irks me.
This blog wouldn’t be called The Life Argotic without me taking on some buzzwords. So this will be my inaugural buzzword debunking. I’m fairly certain it won’t be my last. Education is full of them. Every time I hear the word rigor, I cringe and brace for whatever is coming next following that word. Why? Continue reading
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Why you shouldn’t call them the WIDA "Standards"
One thing that I think EL teachers need to get better at is explaining our profession. However, one of the largest organizations for teaching English, WIDA, doesn’t make it easy when they decided to call their framework of instructional tools, “standards”. What is WIDA?WIDA stands for the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment. It’s a consortium Continue reading
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Differentiating Everything; Why your Word Wall NEEDS to change
Every time I walk by a classroom or view a room in the media, I notice a huge discrepancy between the classroom word wall and the anchor charts and content posters. Recently, this piqued my interest when I thought about the word Equity. Now I know we have all seen the pictures about the differences Continue reading
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