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Aug 2013
1h 38m

1: Best Practices for Teaching English L...

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
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Kim, a passionate ESL teacher and our very first guest, talks candidly about the complexities of teaching English learners: the power imbalance that arises when the kids speak English but the parents don't, why ELL students won't look their teachers in the eye, and the well-intended mistake so many content area teachers make when working with a diverse population.

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