Discover practical insights on UDL, CLIL, and plurilingualism to support diverse learners and foster inclusive classrooms. Whether you're a teacher, parent, or researcher, this blog offers actionable strategies to make learning meaningful and accessible for all.
Reading is hard. It takes time, stamina, effort. It can feel, sometimes, like a frustrating c…
While we’ve been distracted by the outrage over Roald Dahl’s changed books, the A…
What is the difference between a skills-based and knowledge-based curriculum?
by Rebecca
Reading is hard. It takes time, stamina, effort. It can feel, sometimes, like a frustrating chore. That’s true for students reading in their first language – it gets even harder if they are learning a second one! I understand the …
by Rebecca
While we’ve been distracted by the outrage over Roald Dahl’s changed books, the AP African Americans Studies course has been being censored under our noses. The Florida Governor attacked the new course, and it’s been stripped down by the College …
by Rebecca
What is the difference between a skills-based and knowledge-based curriculum?
First, let’s start with defining what a curriculum is. A curriculum informs the goal at the end of a course. It’s a list of things that you must achieve by …
by Rebecca
‘Learning Skills’ is a term that describes the tasks involved in learning, as well as the habits, strategies, and tools that help people to be better students and achieve more success in any class or subject.
As I sit down …
by Rebecca
I remember teaching my first 6ieme class in France. 15 fresh young faces – surely they were too young? – staring up at me, expecting wisdom on this, their first day of Middle School.
“I’m sorry,” was all I could …
by Rebecca
Last week, I worked with a 13 year old student, Sarah*, who started the lesson by telling me how badly she was doing in her English class. She wasn’t a writer, she said, “not like the kids who are just …
by Rebecca
Writing is HARD. It’s hard for everyone.
Of the four strands of language – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – it is the hardest to master, whether you’re working in your mother tongue or trying to acquire a new language. …
by Rebecca
Real literature connects us, and there is nothing I love more than sharing a good novel with a classroom or zoom room community. There is so much joy and learning that happens when we can dig into a novel set …
by Rebecca
This is a re-post of an article I wrote a year ago, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, that my students were asking me about. It is still important. It still shapes my teaching and my courses.
In …
by Rebecca
Writers Need Readers
Introducing: Kids Get Published, my tool for creating authentic writing opportunities for children.
Learning how to write is hard. Teaching children how to write well is even harder. And we have to start in primary …
by Rebecca
This morning, during a zoom lesson with a 4ieme (8th grade) student, I forgot what caused Fragile X Syndrome.
The lesson was on chromosome aberrations, and I am out of practice. He’s falling behind in his science lessons, and …
by Rebecca
Content Integration Including Language Acquisition
CLIL is a pedagogy and teaching style that teaches both language skills and content – science, history, a novel, any topic – at the same time. It originated as a method for teaching second language …
by Rebecca
Welcome to the Teaching With Class Blog!
I have been teaching in bilingual, international education for 15 years, and I have some stories to tell you.
Some of them are funny. Really funny.
Some of them will break your heart.
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