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1. On Teaching and Learning

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This page of thoughtful quotes and sage advice accompanies the teacher training warm-up activity introduced in Polatsek's article.

2. Teaching Students How to Write a Description with Photos

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique explains what the author describes as a pre-task for teaching students to write descriptively about a photo diary that students create themselves.

3. Trace Effects Teacher's Manual

   Format(s): Text

   This Trace Effects manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks.

4. Peace Corps Teacher Training Resources

   Format(s): Website

   Find resources for teachers on lesson planning, classroom management, developing materials, and working in low-resource contexts.

5. Notes for Teachers

   In: Why English? Comics for the Classroom Format(s): Text

   This section includes a table of contents, information about the project, and how teachers can use these comics in their classrooms.

6. Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual

   Format(s): Text

   Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual offers twenty-six practical teaching strategies and techniques that originally appeared in Ideas Plus, a special series of publications produced by the National Council of Teachers of English.

7. Essentials for the Teacher's Toolbox

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This introduction to three reprinted articles identifies tools, such as visual aids and dictionaries, used by effective teachers.

8. An Imaginative Approach to Teaching Writing

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article, originally published in 1986, explores the key to tackling the challenging task: motivation. The article includes 11 activities that encourage students’ creativity.

9. Teaching Listening Skills to Young Learners through 'Listen and Do' Songs

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article, which examines the use of songs to improve the listening skills of young learners, contains a lesson plan and follow-up activities and a list of online resources for songs.

10. Teaching Communication: Back to the 60s

    In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    This piece, a preface to a reprinted 1971 article on communication practice, focuses on the need for real communication in the language classroom.

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