Educação Bilíngue no Brasil

Top 10 Mitos sobre Problemas de Aprendizagem The National Center for Learning Disabilities is a great website to find information about special education. Even though there is a lot of  U.S. legislation on how to educate special students, the learning disabilities’ information is tremendously rich for anyone who is interested or has a child with […]

Resources in bilingual special education is scarce. For this reason, I would like to share some of the resources that I learned while taking online courses in Bilingual Special Education at The George Washington University, Washington, DC. As far as I know in the U.S., there are only a few programs and I believe this […]

Os Múltiplos Benefícios do Programa “Dual Language” This is an interesting article about the benefits of dual language programs written by the well-known researchers in the area Dr. Virginia Collier & Dr. Wayne Thomas from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. If you would like to refresh tha main concepts about bilingual education with an […]

As cantigas infantis fazem parte do patrimônio cultural da infância e devem fazer parte da história de todas as crianças. E aprender cantigas e parlendas em uma segunda língua pode trazer uma série de benefícios para as crianças: Amplia o vocabulário Ensina e desenvolve a pronúncia Auxilia na consciência fonológica Dá acesso a elementos culturais […]

Hank Zipzer Authors Share Dyslexia Insight While you’re looking for ways to make learning fun for dyslexic children, consider the children’s book seriesHank Zipzer: The World’s Greatest Underachiever. The books are co-written by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, who target their writing toward learning-challenged children. Gemm Learning spot-lighted Hank Zipzer in Part 3 of our “Great Books […]

Last month, I had the opportunity to attend Rick Riordan’s lecture as a keynote speaker in the International Reading Association Conference in San Antonio. The speech was inspiring and made me feel proud of being a reading teacher. For this reason, I would like to share his discource which he posted in his blog to […]

Finland’s education expert Pasi Sahlberg Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling“Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” In this piece he writes about whether the emphasis that American school reformers put on “teacher effectiveness” is really the best approach […]

International Reading Association na America Latina Depois de ter participado da conferencia internacional de “International Reading Association”, descobrí que há uma revista para professores que ensinam  “reading” e “writing” na América Latina Veja abaixo a link para a revista da “Internationa Reading Association” para a América Latina. A revista está escrita em espanhol e os […]

Reading and Writing Workshop e Educação Inclusiva This is another inspiring article and research about how Nancy, a classroom teacher,  connected reading and writing to teach students with learning disabilities how to express their voice  using the workshop model. I really enjoyed reading the “conference”, the conversation that nudge the students to  between Nancy and […]

Yesterday, I just attended a day in the International Reading Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas. It was my first time. I was blessed to listen to Rick Riordan, the author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians, as the first keynote speaker. This conference blew me away! Definitely, I will attend it next year […]