All the World’s a Schoolhouse

The following links will direct you, Professor Rozema (or anyone who for some reason might be interested in reading my comments…) to my responses posted on other classmates’ blogs

Language in Rwanda
An Inspirational Story
The Necessity of Religion in Education
Michigan Dropout Rates Call for Reform
ACT: A Crappy Test
Integration Formation
Working Around Proposal 2?
An Article-and [...]

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Staying true to the genre motif we’ve repeatedly addressed in Professor Rozema’s ENG 310 class, I must say that I am a fan of the “blog genre.”  I have gained quite a load of insight from reading dozens of articles, perusing interesting websites I’ve discovered, writing about issues that others have addressed on the Internet, [...]

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Over the past several days, I have perused multiple articles regarding teaching abroad and teaching ESL.  While I can easily say that I’ve spent hours reading those articles, I must also admit that none of them appealed to me too much.  I think it’s about time for a more upbeat read…and that’s why I’ve revisited [...]

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A forum at www.esl-jobs-forum.com just made its way to my RSS feed, and caught my attention fairly quickly.  The survey topic I came across was: “Why do you want to teach abroad?” As I read the question, I immediately considered my own reasons for interest.  I want to teach abroad because I love working [...]

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My “Teaching Writing: Secondary” professor recently assigned an article that instantly won my approval. The article by Nancy Sommers, entitled “Responding to Student Writing”, discusses the tendency for teachers to overload and confuse students with the “expert comments” they jot throughout the students’ papers.
All too often, writers and revisers overlook the fact that writing [...]

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I recently attended a lecture at Grand Valley State University called “Cultural Mobility: The Strange Case of Shakspeare’s Cardenio“, by Stephen Greenblatt, a professor at Harvard University who specializes in Shakespeare.  Greenblatt co-authored a “Shakespearean work” based on the lost play Cardenio in order to emphasize the idea that Shakespearean techniques are applicable throughout time and various cultural [...]

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My mind is still set on the account of the teacher who traveled to Cameroon and had to teach without textbooks, as I previously mentioned.  I started to search for ideas for teaching without textbooks, and as usual, the internet provided me with some insight.  Unfortunately, a lot of this insight is only applicable to [...]

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I just finished reading an intriguing article that threw me back into the heart of Africa. I imagined myself teaching with a few ancient textbooks, or no textbooks at all, in jam-packed classrooms like those I visited in Uganda. The concept of teaching abroad is, well, a broad topic….pun intended…the opportunities, adventures, and nightmares awaiting [...]

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I recently found an article on the EBSCO database called “Developing Empathy and Strategies for Working with English Language Learners”, by Gay N. Washburn, PhD, who teaches in the College of Education at Northern Kentucky University. In the opening, the author mentions that when he asks teachers how their ELL students are doing and [...]

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I wasn’t too pleased with the results of my RSS subscriptions, so I decided to do some more searching.
Jackpot!
I found great articles through a “Teaching ESL” search on Google News.
The first article that I read caught my attention because it reminded me of what my Linguistics professor told us on the first day of class. [...]

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