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American English Live - How Routines Support Effective Classroom Management and Teacher Planning

In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

This session, "Got Consistency? How Routines Support Effective Classroom Management and Teacher Planning," explores simple techniques to implement everyday routines that maximize student agency, learning, and participation while also increasing overall teaching efficacy.

Arts and Culture

Format(s): Text, Website

Full lesson plans on a variety of topics related to the arts from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Rules and Laws

In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 1 Format(s): Text

This article presents a lesson that gives students the opportunity to explore aspects of rules and laws. The goal of the lesson is to help students learn vocabulary and concepts associated with the topic, practice their English language skills, and develop an understanding of the role of rules and laws in civil societies. The article shares three activities for a fifty-minute lesson plan, but the authors state that teachers may modify the lesson for their own contexts and student needs.

Bringing One Language to Another: Multilingualism as a Resource in the Language Classroom

In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 1 Format(s): Text

Many EFL students are already multilingual, but they may not realize the strengths they bring to language learning. This article calls on instructors to help students develop language awareness and guide them to find ways to apply what they know about language. The author shows how this process occurred in a sociolinguistics course and includes sample lessons for all ages and a variety of levels of proficiency. Lessons incorporate the students’ language knowledge in such skill areas as grammar and vocabulary.

CyberSchoolBus

Format(s): Website

The U.N. CyberSchoolbus is a free educational resource for teachers and learners. In addition to resources about U.N. countries and programs, there are also lesson plans and activities related to peace education, poverty, human rights, discrimination, the environment, and much more.

Module 9: Critical and Creative Thinking

In: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World Format(s): Text, Video

This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on critical and creative thinking in the classrooms.

Module 10: Alternative Assessment

In: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World Format(s): Text, Video

This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on alternative assessment.

EPA Teacher and Learner Resource Center

Format(s): Text, Video, Website

Looking for ways to teach about the environment to your English language learners? Check out these 12 lesson plans from the Environmental Protection Agency. There are 4 lessons for each level – beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

Stimulating Writing through Project-Based Tasks

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

As students often see writing in any language as a challenging task, it can be hard to encourage motivation to practice writing in the language-learning classroom. This article offers project-based tasks as a way to motivate students with relevant and interesting topics. The author discusses the principles of project work and explains the process approach to composition, followed by detailed lesson plans for writing a problem/solution essay and the expected outcomes of this project.

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