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Using Seesaw in the Adult English Language Learner Classroom

Greg Curran — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:25:31 +0000

Seesaw offers so many possibilities in the English Language Learner classroom. Here I describe a Photography project that built students speaking, reading and writing skills. This year I have been trialling Seesaw in three adult English Language Learner classrooms. My Certificate 3 class had a mix of skill levels. The other two classes were preliminary classes, one with students at the very early stages of learning English, and the other with students at a slightly higher level. In a THREE PART SERIES, I will briefly detail how we used Seesaw, along with our key likes and learnings. PART 1 –

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Can We Come to Your Wedding?

Greg Curran — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:16:18 +0000

In the battle for Marriage Equality, I reflect on moments in my classroom as a gay teacher. Most noticeably, a ‘can we come to your wedding?’ plea from my students. Can We Come to Your Wedding – We’ll bring the flowers It’s early morning, just before class. One of my adult students comes bursting in, ‘Greg, did you hear the news?’ “Everyone can get married by the end of the year,” she says, referring to the forthcoming Marriage Equality postal survey in Australia. With my students knowing that I’m gay and in a relationship – I say, “maybe Simon and

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Having a Voice and a Sense of Belonging in a Soccer Club with Ramon Spaaij

Greg Curran — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:00:47 +0000

It’s a soccer team made up almost entirely of new arrivals and refugees to Australia. So how do the young players construct their identity and sense of belonging? And what about the young women facing narrow and discriminatory views of femininity at the club? How do they resist? Episode 38: Overview In this episode, we focus on a soccer team in the western suburbs of Melbourne Australia. A team made up almost entirely of new arrivals and refugees from the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia). Our guest (Ramon Spaaij) studied this team, its players and families over a 3 year period.

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