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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.

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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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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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The article presents a step-by-step procedure for using quotes for critical thinking and theme analysis; the author gives examples, provides sources for quotes, and suggests follow-up activities.

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Famous Quotes for Theme Analysis
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This article describes a procedure that gets students to collaborate, generate ideas for an essay project, and reflect on their ideas as they prepare to write; the author also suggests a number of possible essay topics.

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A Collaborative Activity for Generating Ideas in the Writing Classroom
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Many students are already involved with social media; this article presents in clear detail a technique for using social media to generate characters and ideas for narrative writing.

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Embracing Social Media to Engage Students and Teach Narrative Writing
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This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

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Reader’s Guide
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Using Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” as an anchor, the authors present a variety of creative ideas for introducing new words and helping students fully comprehend them.

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“To Build a Fire”: Creative Frames, Adolescent Readers, and New Words
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