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This session, "Practical Applications for Critical Thinking in English Language Teaching and Learning," offers an easy way to determine how much Critical Thinking (CT) is already part of existing your materials and practical ways to weave more CT into them on a regular basis. By the end of our time together, we will have (a) reviewed some of the key features of CT and its importance as an element in any learning environment, (b) discussed ways to analyze current materials for CT content, and (c) identified practical ways to easily apply CT in language teaching and learning.

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Language Teaching through Critical Thinking and Self-Awareness
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This guide aims to provide strategies for creating and sustaining an English club by providing ideas that will excite, inspire, and encourage people to practice English and create positive changes in their communities. The focus of this guide is on practicing English, not on teaching English, although some sections include definitions of useful vocabulary and expressions.

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English Club Manual Concise Guide
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English Club Manual Concise Guide
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Pages: 144 

Size: 6x9 in. 

GPS Invoice No: G1114-E 

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This handbook provides specific instructions, activities, and reading materials for participants wanting to improve their English reading abilities. Topics include strategies before reading, while reading, and after reading, strategies for viewing images and interpreting visual texts, and suggested topics for English Club settings.

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The Readers Club Handbook
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The Readers Club Handbook
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This session, "Assess and Motivate: Student Portfolios and Self-Assessments in the EFL Classroom," explores the use of portfolios and self-assessments that document the completion of performance-based tasks as a great way to motivate students and measure learning. The session introduces different types of portfolios that can be applied across all levels and macro-skills. Participants will explore how to develop a variety of authentic tasks including different types of portfolios, self-assessments, and other performative tasks, construct a workable rubric to measure achievement, and increase student motivation via self-reflective assessment and instructor feedback.

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The Future Is Now: Preparing a New Generation of CBI Teachers
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Going Green: Merging Environmental Education and Language Instruction
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This session, "Effective Strategies for Teaching Large Classes," explores thought-provoking techniques for creating engaging and interactive lesson plans when working with large, multi-level classes. Participants will learn effective strategies and techniques that give their students the opportunity to actively participate in class, even when there are varying proficiency levels. By the end of the session, participants will have a toolbox of ideas for creating more dynamic lessons while recognizing that class size is not a barrier to communication and interaction.

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Student-Centered Teaching in Large Classes with Limited Resources
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This session, "Adapting Your Materials for Use in Mixed Ability Classrooms," addresses the challenge of dealing with large classes of students with mixed abilities. In such settings, it can be difficult to maintain learner motivation and engagement. This session aims to help teachers adapt their materials for use in these settings, whether they are teaching young learners, teens, or older students. The presentation will explore techniques for conducting activities in classes of mixed ability students, including pacing, personalizing activities, and grouping learners. The techniques will address ways to simplify tasks as well as to make activities more challenging.

Author: Presenter: Susan Iannuzzi Format: Text, Video
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Multi-Level Classes Part Two: Differentiating Instruction with Teacher-Supported Groups and Leveled Tasks
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This session, "Developing Teacher Leadership Skills: Instructional Coaching Techniques for English as a Foreign Language Educators," describes how a school can build capacity for serving English learners. Participants will learn how to identify a site-based coach to provide professional development for colleagues. Participants will be provided a toolkit of resources for teacher professional development. Participants will be guided through the English Learners in the Mainstream (ELM) Observation Tool, a framework for pre-and post-teacher observation, with a focus on best practices for English learners.

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This puzzle commemorates the 50th anniversary of the English Language Fellow Program and lets readers test their knowledge of whether each clue refers to something that is more than 50, less than 50, or exactly 50.

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The Lighter Side: Fifty, More or Less
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This article presents TESOL’s “6 Principles” and suggests a variety of ways that teachers in almost any country or context can incorporate the principles.

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Practical Applications of TESOL’s The 6 Principles of Exemplary Teaching of English Learners
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International Subscriptions: English Teaching Forum is distributed through U.S. Embassies. If you would like to subscribe to the print version of English Teaching Forum, please contact the Public Affairs or Cultural Affairs section of the U.S. Embassy in your country.

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Learn how teacher Yurany Monsalve commutes (by plane!) between two teaching sites yet manages to provide her students with English skills and opportunities for learning and growth.

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My Classroom: Colombia
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International Subscriptions: English Teaching Forum is distributed through U.S. Embassies. If you would like to subscribe to the print version of English Teaching Forum, please contact the Public Affairs or Cultural Affairs section of the U.S. Embassy in your country.

U.S. Subscriptions: English Teaching Forum is exempted from the Congressional restriction on distribution of Department of State-produced materials in the United States. U.S. residents who want to order the printed edition can order from the U.S. Superintendent of Documents.

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