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1. Teacher's Corner: Professional Development for Teacher Trainers

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   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, find ways to encourage and build teachers’ professional knowledge and skills. This week we show how to set up discussion groups to discuss research and practice.

2. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Beginners

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   Teaching beginner level students can be challenging, but in this month’s Teacher’s Corner, you’ll learn strategies for helping these language learners to be successful.

3. Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities

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   English Language teachers interact with learners from a wide range of backgrounds and abilities.

4. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Young Learners

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner is about teaching young learners. This week in the Teacher’s Corner, we present ideas for using visual support in the English language classroom for young learners.

5. Teacher's Corner: Technology Tools for Students and Teachers

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   Want to learn more about using technology for learning and teaching? Look no further than this month’s Teacher’s Corner.

6. Destroying the Teacher: The Need for Learner-Centered Teaching

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article advocates using English to teach content, addressing this through five areas: Reduction of Coercion (not eliciting correct answers, but engaging students in thinking); Active Learner Involvement (less teacher talk and more material chosen to engage learners), Experience Before Interpretation (handling material before interpreting it), Avoidance of Simplification (choosing materials challenging enough to learn skills for tackling new ideas), and Value of Silence (allowing students to think without forcing them to talk).

7. Open Source Resources

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

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine four types of technology that can help achieve classroom goals. Each tool is free to use. This week’s Teacher’s Corner provides assistance in developing classroom materials by highlighting free online resources, including texts, images, and even entire online courses.

8. Teacher Resources

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This section offers brief reviews of two commercial publications. The first is Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers, a collection of suggestions appropriate for ESL, EFL and mainstream teachers edited by Patricia A. Richard-Amato and Marguerite Ann Snow. The other publication is Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching, a book by Patricia A. Richard-Amato with practical ideas for getting students to participate more in the classroom.

9. Teacher's Corner: Movement in the Classroom

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   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, get tips for adding movement to learning activities no matter what your classroom structure is!

10. Teacher's Corner: Listening

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    These “Teacher’s Corner” activities are inspired by a framework for thinking about listening instruction presented in Beth Sheppard’s 2014 “Practical Activities for Balanced Listening Instruction” webinar, part of the Shaping the Way We Teach English webinar series.

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