I don’t discuss my years as an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL, a.k.a. ESL) specialist much on these pages, mainly because there are no ESOL students at my high school. But the experience of being a second teacher in the content-area classroom when I wore this hat? That’s some good fodder […]
Sometimes you just want to give up. Instead, I’ll go transparent and see what ideas, counsels, or commiserations come from sharing.
It’s about the “Visionary Student Blogging” connective writing project.
The problem? Little vision, little connective writing.
It’s partly senioritis, I think. College applications, SAT’s, too many commitments to too many extra-curricular activities (got […]
The Long Preface:
“A teacher is only as good as his students.”
That’s how I prefaced my little “beginning to blog to the world” pep talk to my Advanced Placement Literature seniors. I already posted about the “Walden 2.0” idea - a grandiose name, granted, for a simple escape into the woods to film our “about […]
It’s been a heck of a week, and it’s only Wednesday morning. So here are some updates about 1) attempting to inspire a visionary foundation in my students’ approach to blogging (via the “Campsite Seminars” in the woods around our school, as posted about earlier after watching Christian Long’s segment of Dean Shareski’s […]
You know that cotton-headed feeling after you’ve updated your way-behind grade-book? That’s where I am right now.
Luckily, it was a good experience. I love the discussion on our AP Lit Ning about Laurence Olivier in King Lear. The forum was 12 pages long since being assigned on Thursday, and I hadn’t looked […]
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Clay Burell:
Chattanooga - Los Angeles - Eugene, OR - Wuerzburg, Germany - Shanghai, China - Seoul, Korea over 40-odd years. English, History, and ESOL teacher-geek. Apple Distinguished Educator. I hate schooliness. I love learning.
I started Beyond School on Blogger on 1 Jan. 2007. Out of love for WordPress, I divorced Blogger on 20 October 2007 to self-host here. Thanks for coming by.
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