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1. Adapting Your Materials for Use in Mixed Ability Classrooms

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

   This session, "Adapting Your Materials for Use in Mixed Ability Classrooms," addresses the challenge of dealing with large classes of students with mixed abilities.

2. Creating Comics to Think Critically

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

   "Creating Comics to Think Critically" provides strategies global educators can use to help English language learners create comics as a means of developing their language and critical thinking skills.

3. Center for Applied Linguistics

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

   The Center for Applied Linguistics offers everything from information on immersion programs to the newest research and guidance on best practices for teachers. Visit regularly to keep up to date on research-based strategies and practical hands-on tools to help develop effective classroom activities.

4. Becoming a News Reporter: A Case Study in Project-Based Learning

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

   This session, "Becoming a News Reporter: A Case Study in Project-Based Learning," presents an example project in which students created television-style newscasts about community issues; participants consider how to overcome challenges associated with PBL and how to develop meaningful project ideas for their own teaching contexts.

5. Engage ELLs with Social-Emotional Learning Through Group Work Activities

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

   This session, "Engage ELLs with Social-Emotional Learning Through Group Work Activities ," demonstrates how weaving SEL competencies into lesson plans gets students using core cognitive skills to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention in the EFL classroom.

6. Connecting to Learn: Growing Professionally through Teacher-to-Teacher Engagement

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

   This session, "Connecting to Learn: Growing Professionally through Teacher-to-Teacher Engagement," explores how connecting and conversing with peers can offer teachers great opportunities for professional growth.

7. Strategies for Managing Large Classes

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

   This session, "Strategies for Managing Large Classes," introduces strategies for building community, making it possible to take advantage of big opportunities for learning.

8. Inquiry Notebooks for Twenty-First-Century Skill Development

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   One way to incorporate inquiry-based learning and develop twenty-first-century skills is through inquiry notebooks. The article gives suggestions for using the notebooks in courses and provides a range of specific prompts designed to help learners think more critically and carefully over time.

9. English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 3

   Format(s): Text

   Find tips for enhancing your teaching with technology … understanding L1 and L2 writing differences and applying them to your teaching … making productive use of inquiry notebooks … using question grids … playing a paraphrasing game … and much more.

10. Technology-Enhanced Task Engagement in English Language Instruction

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

    This session, "Technology-enhanced Task Engagement in English Language Instruction," defines what a task is and why tasks matter for language teachers and learners.

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