We can choose to protect our jobs, crafting every lesson around the small handful of simple skills that ARE tested or we can protect our students, focusing our time on the kinds of skills that matter—and that are a part of our curriculum—but will do us no good when it comes to our own evaluations.
This is a practical tool for ESL/EFL teachers who like working with videos. There are free video quizzes and resources that can be used with students of different levels of proficiency.
President Obama and lawmakers today get details on efforts to stop the Gulf oil
leak and to clean up beaches and marshes affected by the disaster. FULL STORY
Peruvian authorities released a video in which murder suspect Joran van der
Sloot is seen entering a hotel room with Stephany Flores Ramirez. The inquiry
into Flores' beating death has been extended.