Understanding the Errors of Arabic Speaking ELL's- using Slide Share
Teachers Culture
Take a look at Slide Share and there collections of various slide shows. This slide show includes a side by side comparisons of Arabic and English, along with illustrations to understand the mistakes of your Arabic language learners.
Chinese New Year is on Feb 19th 2015- Year of the Goat
Teachers Culture
A helpful site for teachers that has put all of the Chinese New Year resources together.
Lessons From Finland: What Educators Can Learn About Leadership
Teachers Culture
A excerpt from an article written by, Barnett Berry and Ann Bryd, and Alan Wieder that focuses on educators in Finland see themselves as leaders.
Today's Teacher: Educator, Motivator and Therapist
Teachers Culture
Family stress, poverty and psychological issues are three factors which are the white elephant in the room for all of us in education. Many of these are seen as huge issues for students but they are not recognized as primary barriers.
Syrian Refugee Integration Initiative: Meet Mohammed
Teachers Culture
Languages Canada presents the story of Mohammed, and his integration to Canada as a refugee. Learn more about the Languages Canada Syrian Refugee Integration Initiative.
Breaking the Teacher-Student Conflict Cycle
Teachers Culture
The key to improving student behavior is changing the way teachers and administrators react. A three-part series on building positive school culture.
Easy Chicken Curry with Kanchan Koya
Adults Culture
Easy recipes, brought from our kitchen to yours.
Award-Winning Cuban Sandwich by El Cochinito
Adults Culture
Best cuban sandwich recipe.
Jamie Cooks Italy | Sausage Risotto
Adults Culture
Three more of Jamie’s fantastic recipes from Jamie Cooks Italy are here for you to enjoy! We’ve got some really comforting dishes including the most delicious Sausage Risotto cooked on the roof of the iconic Fiat building in Turin! Make sure you watch these and try them yourself. Bellissimo!
Are Rich People Worse Humans?
Adults Culture
Is money the reason Kanye West and Jake Paul are jerks?
Pink Shirt Day takes a stand against bullying
Adults Culture
Today thousands of people across Canada will be wearing bright pink shirts. Pink Shirt Day, initiated by Vancouver-based radio station CKNW, is a day where participants across the country wear pink to raise awareness about bullying.
The complicated history of surfing - Scott Laderman
Adults Culture
Today, surfing is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, with tens of millions of enthusiasts worldwide. For some it's a serious sport; for others, just a way to let loose. But despite its casual association with fun and sun, surfing has a richer and deeper history than many realize. Scott Laderman shares the hidden history of surfing.
How many verb tenses are there in English?
Adults Culture
How many different verb tenses are there in a language like English? At first, the answer seems obvious - there's past, present, and future.
Kids Decorate Pumpkins
Adults Culture
Happy October! Kids decorate and (sort of) carve pumpkins!
Why We Don't Really Want to be Nice
Adults Culture
Being 'nice' sounds a bit eerie and strange. It shouldn't really.
Is It Better to Be Polite or Frank?
Adults Culture
We live in an age that thinks highly of frankness and directness. But there are - nevertheless - a few reasons why politeness remains a hugely important quality.
Kids' assumptions toward gender roles are turned around at career day in school.
Adults Culture
When a real-life firefighter, surgeon, and fighter pilot drop in on a classroom, these kids have their assumptions about gender roles turned around.
Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren't
Adults Culture
Why do all-white paintings sell for millions of dollars and end up in museums?
Kids Try 100 Years of Sandwiches from 1900 to 2000 | Bon Appetit
Adults Culture
We had a panel of kids prepare and taste test 100 years of sandwiches from 1900 to today. Here's what they thought about PBJs, po' boys, paninis, and everything in between.
How To Be A Genius
Adults Culture
"We hear a lot about genius. We are taught to admire the minds of those infinite, baffling but astonishing geniuses like Einstein, Tolstoy or Picasso. Quite what genius might actually be is left a little vague. It's a codeword for 'brilliant but perhaps too other-worldly ever really to fathom.' We are invited to stand in awe at the achievements of geniuses but also to feel that their thought processes might be quasi-magical and that it is ultimately simply mysterious how they were ever able to come up with the ideas they have had..."
LITERATURE - Goethe
Adults Culture
Goethe is one of the great minds of European civilisation, though his work is largely unknown outside of the German speaking countries. He deserves our renewed attention.