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1. Promoting Authentic Language Use with Tasks

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

   This session, "Promoting Authentic Language Use with Tasks," explores Tasked-Based Language Teaching by introducing the four criteria of tasks, presenting task types, and sharing examples of successful classroom tasks.

2. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

   Format(s): Website

   Information on health and safety topics, up-to-date statistics, tools, and resources for students and educators.

3. Center for Disease Control & Prevention

   Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   Provides information on health and safety topics, up-to-date statistics, tools, and resources for students and educators.

4. Getting Started with Project-Based Learning in STEAM

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

   This session, "Getting Started with Project-Based Learning in STEAM," discussed characteristics of strong projects in STEAM courses for students at different proficiency levels and guided participants in analyzing sample projects to identify their language features and completion requirements.

5. Implementing Peer Assessment in Project-Based Learning

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

   This session, "Implementing Peer Assessment in Project-Based Learning," discusses how to prepare for and conduct peer assessment during PBL so that learners can provide constructive, validating, and encouraging feedback to their classmates.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Cultural Introductions by Way of Storytelling

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

   This session, "Cultural Introductions by Way of Storytelling," examines how we can share our own unique stories in a dialogue with others using an engaging method which gives value to ourselves, while also celebrating the differences of everyone involved.

9. You Made Me Laugh

   In: American Rhythms Format(s): MP3

   The song 'You Made Me Laugh' by Omar Kent Dykes, a blues guitarist and singer, is an engaging example of Texas blues-rock.

10. Everyday Conversations: Learning American English

    Format(s): Text

    This resource can be used by teachers and learners. Students can listen to and/or read dialogues in English.

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