Shortly after earning my bachelor’s, I felt a tremendous urgency to join the fight against the achievement gap by becoming this battle’s strongest soldier: a teacher. I stepped into the inner-city Detroit classroom that I would call home for my first year of teaching as a Teach for America corps member. I came to appreciate the notion that the quality …
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Writing a TESOL Case Study
This week, I will complete and present my first case study as an MAT@USC TESOL student. In the TESOL track, performing a case study is one of the major requirements for completing Educ. 501: Introduction for English as a New Language. The case study involves observing and interviewing an English language learner and interviewing his or her teachers, parents and …
“We are Kind, We are Smart, We are Important”
Being a mom in the MAT@USC has been challenging in a positive way. When I began the program, my twin daughters were 2 years old. As a full-time teacher and a full-time mother, my hands were quite occupied. Nevertheless, the program shifted me in the right directions immediately.
In my Social Context courses, I learned about accepting individuality within our students …
I Bet You Can’t Smile
The other day I helped out in an Emotional Support classroom. This is my little story about what happened after an incident in that class.
I looked under the table and found Ezequial hiding there, grimacing. I’d decided he’d had enough time to sulk after his teacher reprimanded him and it was time for him to rejoin the class.
“Ezequial, come out …
Lessons from the End of a Semester in MAT@USC TESOL
by Shannon Riley
The beauty of the online MAT@USC TESOL program is the ability to take what we are learning online, translate it into practice in the classroom, and reflect on it with our professors and classmates. We get to explore what’s challenging us in our classes, and gain input from classmates and professors from around the globe. And yes, we …
