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Highlight: Senior English Language Fellow Visits Town of Pushkin

John Mark on December 18th, 2009 under ELF Highlights •  Comments Off

TweetOn December 16th, Senior English Language Fellow John Mark King visited a middle school and met with English teachers from more than seven area schools in the city founded as the summer home of the tsars and where national poet Alexander Pushkin once studied. 25 working elementary and middle school teachers came for the Fellow’s [...]

Highlight: A Reading Lesson without Reading – Pre-reading for Students of All Levels

John Mark on December 10th, 2009 under ELF Highlights, Teaching Reading •  Comments Off

TweetOn Oct. 21, 2009, Senior English Language Fellow John Mark King gave a workshop entitled, “Judging a Book by Its Cover: The First Step in Becoming an Effective Reader” to a group of 29 current teachers at the Academy of Pedagogical Mastery in St. Petersburg, Russia. Most of the teachers work at secondary schools and [...]