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“My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to use it before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life. Once I did it in silence, afraid of the weight. My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger … Continue reading Stop Tone-Policing
Being a woman teacher has had its many challenges for me, but the great thing about these challenges is that I always had a strategy to deal with them. That is not to say that women should learn to deal with these challenges as a normal part of teaching. In fact, I hope by discussing … Continue reading Challenges Faced By Women Teachers & Ways To Respond To Them
If you’re a follower of this blog, you know that I shared two interviews this past week.
An Interview with Shelly Terrell
An Interview with Rusul Alrubail
The back to back timing wasn’t planned. I’m an admirer of what both ladies do and how they manage their online presence and resources. I read their blogs and interact on Twitter when it’s appropriate. A while back, I had been planning to do some interviews and sent a request to both of them.
I was so glad that they both said yes.
Now, I have a technique for interviewing that I think respects their commitments to other things and let them do the interview when they have the time. So, it was quite a surprise when they both said, on the same day, that they were finished. Rusul had completed hers first so I posted hers on one day and Shelly’s on the…
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Being an English Language Learner in a mainstream classroom can be a very overwhelming experience for the student. Often, my English Language Learners need extra help when it comes to reading non-fiction articles in the class. Modifying the reading assignment is the first step, but there are times when it’s hard to modify an assignment … Continue reading Strategies for Reading Non-Fiction with ELL
My interview with Doug Peterson. On HigherEd, #EduColor & more!
Doug: Thanks for agreeing to do this interview, Rusul. You’re another person that I’ve never met in person so I’ll skip my normal first question. We met on Twitter, right?
Rusul: Indeed we did. You started following me through a list of Ontario Educators.
Doug: OK, confession time here. I love your writing but I suspect that I miss a great deal of it since you publish in many places other than your blog. Where can we find the complete works of Rusul?
Rusul: My own website: www.rusulalrubail.com Actually, I will be launching a new website soon, hopefully with the same address, and I am really looking forward to it! I try to cross post everything on my personal website, but often forget or don’t have the time. I also write on Medium.com, Edutopia, Teaching Tolerance, PBSNewshour, and Education Week.
Doug: One of my favourite posts appeared over the summer…
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This interview was originally published on Medium's Bright: Rusul Alrubail, The Writing Project, Toronto The art of the essay Not all exits from the classroom are expected, or desired. Rusul Alrubail, 29, was an English composition and literature teacher at Toronto’s Seneca College for five years when she and her contract faculty colleagues were abruptly … Continue reading What Do Teachers Do After Saying Goodbye to the Classroom?
Originally posted on Larry Ferlazzo's Education Week Teacher Column: Student participation is a very important aspect in classroom learning for teachers and students. There are several strategies that teachers can implement and practice in their classroom to support student participation. These strategies are long term pedagogical goals for teachers. It is the hope that if they … Continue reading Ways To Build ‘Authentic Engagement’ & Not ‘Strategic Compliance’
EdCampToronto is happening this year Saturday October 17 at Design Cofounders' new office at 96 Spadina Ave. EdCampToronto is a free unconference that provides an opportunity for educators to connect, learn and share with each other best practices in and out of the classroom. This year our theme is Education for Social Impact. Because we … Continue reading EdCampToronto Announcement #OntEd
This post was originally published on Education Week for Larry Ferlazzo's EdWeek Teacher blog: Digital portfolios can be a very useful tool to enhance students' social and cultural learning in an English Language classroom. Teachers can use digital portfolios as a platform for students to show their work. More importantly, students can use them as … Continue reading Ways To Help Students Develop Digital Portfolios
This post was originally published in The Synapse. My first day teaching at the college was nerve wrecking. I was flustered, waiting for 11:30 am to come by to finally meet my students and teach. I had all my papers in a purple binder: Photocopies of my class syllabus, weekly schedule, a print out of … Continue reading Students are not Allowed in Here! #ILookLikeAProfessor
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