Teaching with a Hearing Impairment

31 Wednesday Aug 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in Creating Inclusive Lessons, Teachers' Page

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Hearing Impaired Teachers, Inclusive Classroom Strategies

In the future, I will offer a tool kit with information on how to teach English with a hearing impairment. I’m able to do so with hearing aides and listening devices that enable me to isolate sounds so I can listen to individual students in noisy environments and minimize peripheral noise while in small group settings. Listening devices alone cannot substitute for teaching strategies designed to meet my needs while, at the same time, give students what they need from me in a way that keeps them learning and engaged.

Below is a presentation that contains helpful suggestions for hearing impaired teachers in general.

Source: Hearing Loss: Strategies for the Classroom Teacher Victorian Deaf Education Institute June 25, 2015. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISWkl29SpwU Accessed 8/30/16)

Teach English Using Songs from American Rhythms Site

29 Monday Aug 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in Creating Inclusive Lessons, Free and Low-Cost Teacher Resources, On-Line Publications and Sites, Teachers' Page

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English Lessons, ESL Teachers, TESOL

The Sing Out Loud American Rhythms website features FREE songs, lyrics and readi (ng, writing and speaking activities for teen and adult English language learners–and people who enjoy hearing good music! Teachers can download the songs, information about the songs (including artist credits) and pre- and post-listening activities by clicking on the song’s title under the Table of Contents. An additional, generic list of activities is available for use with any of the songs on this site as well. English language levels are indicated for activities associated with individual songs as well. This site has it all!

Source: Amer ican Rhythms | American English

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How Plain Language Makes Life Simpler

25 Thursday Aug 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in Creating Inclusive Lessons, Lessons_Intermediate Level

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Civil Rights, English language, Language Laws, Plain Language Law

This speaker offers several suggestions for how to make language easier for people to understand–and why it’s so important to do so. By law, U.S. government agencies must use “plain language” (common words, short sentences, no idioms and graphics). Companies should use plain language; but, as yet, are not required to do so. My hope is that companies use plain language in their documents and when speaking with people who need it in order to communicate with someone and comprehend what is being said.