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1. Week 2 - In the News

   In: Teacher's Corner: Journalism Format(s): Text

   Here's some news! In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students practice journalism skills. This week’s activity allows students to learn the sections of a news story by writing about their interests.

2. Backward Design and Alignment of Assessments

   In: Teacher's Corner: Collecting and Using Data Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways to ensure your students have learned the target content. This week, we look at backward design of lesson planning.

3. Opportunities to Engage Professionally Outside of the Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Professional Development for Teacher Trainers Format(s): Text

   Language teaching professionals have many opportunities for professional development that are outside of the classroom and school.

4. Applied Theatre, Adolescent English Learners, and the Performance of Literacy

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Youth in middle and secondary grades, between childhood and the adult world, sometimes struggle with their identities as readers and learners. Too many describe themselves or are described by their teachers and parents as “reluctant, disengaged, and/or unmotivated” by classroom texts or by the rows of books in school libraries.

5. A Ten-Step Process for Developing Teaching Units

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Curriculum design and implementation can be a daunting process. Questions quickly arise, such as who is qualified to design the curriculum and how do these people begin the design process.

6. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Grammar for Communicative Competence

   Format(s): Text

   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we look at how to teach grammar in ways that help students to build their communicative competence. A communicative grammar lesson gives students the opportunity to practice the target grammar item through specific communicative tasks and activities.This month’s article is filled with ideas and resources to help students use the language they are learning.

7. We the People

   Format(s): Website

   The National Endowment for the Humanities presents We The People. Find numerous resources dedicated to learning more about American history, culture, and democratic principles.

8. American Memory Project

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Documents the American experience based on art and song, produced by the Library of Congress.

9. GoEnglish.Me: A VOA English Software Program

   Format(s): Video, Website

   Interactive, task-based American English learning program produced by Voice of America.

10. In the Loop

    Format(s): Text, Image / Poster / Maps

    This book is a wonderful reference guide to American English idioms for your classroom. The book includes idioms and their meanings, a list of idioms by theme, some ready-to-use classroom activities, and a comprehensive index.

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