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Invite Dr. Bloom into your home
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Invite Dr. Bloom into your home

For decades, professional educators have referred to Bloom’s Taxonomy to design courses and assess student growth. In a nutshell, Bloom’s Taxonomy is a framework for classifying levels of learning, with each of the successive 6 levels indicating greater mastery of a particular subject. While this tool will be familiar to most people whose profession is…

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A brief introduction to Dr. Bloom and his eponymous taxonomy
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A brief introduction to Dr. Bloom and his eponymous taxonomy

In 1956, a research group led by educational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Bloom created a framework for classifying and describing learning objectives and outcomes. This taxonomy essentially mapped out the goals of the learning process, and has been elicited extensively by professional educators in the decades since its release. The original Bloom’s Taxonomy (it has been…

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China’s evolving regulations for online ESL classes
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China’s evolving regulations for online ESL classes

Over the course of this summer the online ESL-tutoring industry serving China has been hit with the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane. The Chinese Ministry of Education in June indicated that they would ban online and offline tutoring for children on weekends and holidays, and then in July banned all for-profit tutoring of any…

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Susie wishes me a happy Christmas

Many of the kids I teach are aware of our (Canadian) holidays and give me warm wishes, but when a kid goes out of their way to produce and send something like this it reminds me what a special job teaching is. Susie is sure to include a lot of the grammar and vocabulary we’ve…

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Managing the Digital Classroom – 4 Tips for Teachers
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Managing the Digital Classroom – 4 Tips for Teachers

Considering how unfamiliar the at-home digital classroom might be for many teachers, it is essential that I follow my previous digital classroom management article (tips for parents), with some tips for teachers. As a teacher I am very aware of the challenge of engagement and discipline in a virtual classroom. As a parent I am similarly…

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Managing the Digital Classroom – 4 Tips for Parents
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Managing the Digital Classroom – 4 Tips for Parents

I have the dubious pleasure of writing this article (and its successor) with experience as both an educator who works online as well as a parent with kids “enjoying” online schooling. As a teacher I am very aware of the challenge of engagement and discipline in a virtual classroom. As a parent I am similarly aware…

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General curriculum courses added due to COVID
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General curriculum courses added due to COVID

There is no upside to the current health threats facing us as Canadians, or even as citizens of the globe, but we can do what is in our power to mitigate the risks and adapt to the challenges. When IndieTeach began operations three years ago, we were solely delivering English language training to speakers of…

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