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Posted onJanuary 11, 2022January 11, 2022Pedagogical ideas

Formative Evaluation

by Nicholas Walker

Imagine two students. One student took the practice test before taking the test that counts. The other student skipped the practice test. Which student do you think will do better on the final test? The answer is pretty obvious.

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Posted onJanuary 11, 2022January 11, 2022Pedagogical ideas

Letters to the House of Commons

by Nicholas Walker

To help students put their argumentation skills to use in our democracy, repurposed the argument essay discourse model they learned in Actively Engaged in Persuasion to write a letter to the House of Commons in Ottawa. Here’s what happened.

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Posted onJanuary 9, 2022January 11, 2022Pedagogical ideas

Reciprocal Teaching

by Nicholas Walker

Students learn much more when they teach each other compared with when the teacher does all of the teaching (Hattie, 2009). Students teaching each other is called reciprocal teaching, and it has the second biggest effect on student achievement of all the classroom processes, accelerating learning by 37%

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Posted onJanuary 9, 2022January 9, 2022Pedagogical ideas

Flashcards

by Nicholas Walker

Memorizing new vocabulary using flashcards is a fast, social, fun, and efficient strategy for learning new vocabulary in your second language.

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Posted onJanuary 7, 2022January 9, 2022Features for teachers

New Feature: Automatically Scored Emails

by Nicholas Walker

Email writing is one of the most common writing tasks that adults do. As teachers, it is time to put practical writing tasks at the center of our ESL pedagogy. Here’s how.

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