Laws of Gravity

Wednesday. Sixth period. And the class showed up...  Sixth period is ELD. The English language development class. One of the major things th...

Tuesday.  You ever have one of those days? Nothing wrong, exactly. It's not a bad day. But things just kinda feel off.  First off, I was...

Friday. Beginning ELD. (ELD stands for English language development. This is the class for recent immigrants. Beginning means they don't...

Last week was Thanksgiving break, so there was no school. This is from the week prior. English language development. They had an activity.  ...

The first two periods of this high school English class was beginning ELD (English Language Development). How beginning? As I was expla...

It was Monday of the last week of school. The eighth graders were on a celebratory field trip to Knott's Berry Farm . The teacher I w...

Some days... It was Friday, and my day up until that point had been fairly uneventful. I was asked to cover an extra period (naturally)...

ELD (English language development). Third period was the eleventh graders. About twenty minutes into class, Rebecca arrived. She ...

Seventh grade ELD (English language development, read: English language learners). The teacher was out on jury duty (first day--I don...

Middle school ELD (English language development). This is one of those classes where you wouldn't realize the students aren't...

Did you know that if you type in the title and the first couple of questions of a worksheet, you may be able to find a copy of that works...

When I'm asked to cover an extra period, there are certain things I expect. We'll have to wait around for security to let us in. ...

I was back in the middle school ELD class . (She's a new teacher, so she has a lot of trainings that the district makes her attend.) ...

Miguel and I are well acquainted. Last year I covered his 8th grade science class when they were behaving badly. I said some things tha...

It was the 3rd time I'd covered the advanced ELD class at the middle school in four weeks. 5th period was... challenging... The te...

The class was advanced ELD (English Language Development). 9th graders. I had them for two periods. During the first period, they were ...

Friday. I had a very small, very well-behaved ELL class. (ELL stands for English language learners, meaning that they're fairly new t...

ELD. English Language Development. So, while they spoke English, they weren't fluent. This was the advanced group. They had two wor...

Ms. P warned me about her 5th period. She explained that they had a packet of worksheets, and the way she described the assignment put me in...

I had been warned about 5th period. I immediately started in by making sure they were all in their assigned seats. Then I explained that sin...