Khan Academy - StumbleUpon English to French, Italian, German & Spanish Dictionary Aboriginal Education and Training Policy 1.Objectives - Policy statement 1.1 Commitments The NSW Department of Education and Training including schools, TAFE NSW and community education settings (The Department), is committed to improving the educational outcomes and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students so that they excel and achieve in every aspect of their education and training. It is the goal of the Department, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students will match or better the outcomes of the broader student population. The Department is committed to increasing knowledge and understanding of the histories, cultures and experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of Australia. The Department will provide Aboriginal cultural education for all staff and education about Aboriginal Australia for all students, as it is everybody’s business. Aboriginal education and training is core business for all staff. education about Aboriginal Australia for all students
How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class Have you ever plunked yourself down in a staff meeting where some of your colleagues were, for lack of a better phrase, not paying attention? Grading homework? Having private conversations? Texting? As we know all too well, kids aren't a whole lot different than adults: If they aren't absorbed by what's going on, they'll find something else that interests them. Getting all your students focused, eager, and on task at the beginning of class is challenging enough. Still, unless you manage to capture and keep students' focus, whether at the beginning of or midway through class, the engine of student learning that you are trying to drive simply isn't even in gear. From Dead Time to Active Learning I call this lack of engagement dead time. I have come to feel that dead time is so pernicious that I will do everything I can to prevent even the hint of an outbreak. They call students at Level 4, the lowest level, the work avoiders, and on level 3 are the halfhearted workers. Building Your Arsenal
Tecla SAP :: Dicas de Inglês Cross-curriculum priorities | ACARA The Australian Curriculum is designed to meet the needs of students by delivering a relevant, contemporary and engaging curriculum that builds on the educational goals of the Melbourne Declaration. The Melbourne Declaration identified three key areas that need to be addressed for the benefit of both individuals and Australia as a whole. In the Australian Curriculum these have become priorities that provide students with the tools and language to engage with and better understand their world at a range of levels. The priorities provide dimensions which will enrich the curriculum through development of considered and focused content that fits naturally within learning areas. Cross-curriculum priorities are addressed through learning areas and are identified wherever they are developed or applied in content descriptions. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures The third key concept addresses the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies.
Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students by Drs. Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty, University of Pennsylvania The expression "hands-on, minds-on" summarizes the philosophy we have incorporated in these activities - namely, that students will learn best if they are actively engaged and if their activities are closely linked to understanding important biological concepts. Many of our activities are explicitly aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, as indicated by (NGSS) in the descriptions below and the links to the right. Additional information is provided in Summary Tables and in the Teacher Preparation Notes for these activities. To accommodate limited budgets, most of our activities can be carried out with minimum equipment and expense for supplies. Additional resources for teaching biology are available at More Minds on Activities for Teaching Biology. Read More Intro and Biological Molecules Is Yeast Alive? Enzymes Help Us Digest Food(revised, July, 2016) Who Took Jerell's iPod? More Minds-on Activities
Day One - Learn to See the Big Picture | Deep English Welcome to Day 1 of your 7-day English course. Today, we would like for you to watch the three videos below. You can read the transcript for Videos 1 and 3. The audio in Video 2 is not important. Video 1 – What Should you Focus On? Click Here to Read the Video 1 Transcript Welcome to Deep English. What’s the best way to improve your English? Language has a shape. Before we continue we want you to watch a short 3 minute card trick video. Don’t worry if you can’t understand the English. Video 2 – Color Changing Card Trick Remember, don’t worry about understanding the English in the video above. Video 3 – Seeing the Big Picture Click Here to Read the Video 3 Transcript Did you finish the card trick video? Ok, so what does this have to do with learning English? If you spend too much time translating every word or studying only vocabulary and grammar, you miss your chance to become a better speaker and a better listener. Now we want to be perfectly clear. Ok, but how do you do it?
Dicas de Pronúncia *Todo o áudio dessa dica está aqui: * Hi, everyone! Você já ouviu alguém (ou você mesmo) pronunciar essas palavras assim? [1] problEm, famIly, Above Essa é uma característica comum da pronúncia de brasileiros que começaram a aprender há pouco tempo ou que ainda não tiveram muita exposição à língua falada, ou não tiveram tempo de reparar na pronúncia correta. Do que eu estou falando? Ouça o jeito incorreto novamente: [2] problEm, famIly, Above E agora o correto: [3] problem, family, above Deu pra perceber a diferença entre as duas versões? Vamos tomar como exemplo as palavras correspondentes na nossa língua: problEma, famÍlia, Acima E, I e A são beeeem pronunciados aí. Esse sonzinho de vogal, breve e sem ênfase, acontece no português só quando as vogais estão lá no fim. Dá pra entender porque nós brasileiros temos tendência a pronunciar o I, o E e o A com ênfase nesses casos, não? Bom, famoso pra quem já fez aula ou pra quem se interessa pela teoria por trás da pronúncia inglesa. Notas: Na BBC
As Vogais do Inglês e do Português - English & Portuguese Vowel Phonemes Compared Each language makes a different use of the articulatory system and phonology is the study of the sound patterns of the language, especially its matrix of phonemes. What is a phoneme?Phoneme the smallest unit of sound in a language that serves to distinguish two words. Example 1:/pIt/ pit and /bIt/ bit are different words with different meanings. The only distinction relies on the manner of articulation of the bilabial consonant. Coincidentally in Portuguese the bilabial consonant can also be realized in different ways to produce two different phonemes (ex: pico and bico). Example 2:/biyt/ beet and /bIt/ bit are also different words with different meanings. In Portuguese however there is only one high-front vowel phoneme, as in vida or linda. Conclusion: Different languages have different phonemes and have them in different numbers. In the beginning learners will perceive sounds in the target language to be phonologically similar to native language sounds. lá - lã pau - pão pais - pães
SPEAKING ESL Discussions Mais de 660 tópicos de discussão, com cerca de 13 mil questões sobre temas da atualidade, propostos para estimular conversas entre estudantes de inglês. Além de desenvolver habilidades na fala, esses exercícios têm por objetivo melhorar a pronúncia e a comunicação. English Daily Esse site apresenta vários exemplos de diálogos e conversas, em que aparecem expressões como “point-blank”, “it’s a piece of cake”, “rub me the wrong way” e “Cream of the crop”. ESL Point Vários recursos on-line para ajudar a aumentar a fluência em inglês. English at home Lista de frases úteis e dicas de como falar sobre assuntos variados (cumprimentar pessoas, fazer pedidos, sugestões, dar uma opinião, fazer convites, pedidos, reclamações, planos para o futuro etc.). English Speaking Online ESL Fast Spoken Skills USA Learns