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1. United States Institute of Peace Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators

   Format(s): Website

   Designed to support the work of educators as peace builders, these toolkits provide materials and lessons for teachers of middle and high school students to use in the classroom.

2. Auctions to Reinforce Understanding

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique describes a way to use an auction format to help students review content.

3. Online Double-Communication Lines to Enhance Student Interaction

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The author describes ways to bring a popular classroom technique to online environments, showing how to have students form virtual “lines” and then move from partner to partner via a sequence of changing breakout rooms.

4. Ten Things to Enhance Learning and Fun in the Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique introduces a fun, versatile game that gets students thinking and talking together about any number of topic categories.

5. Book Clubs as a Tool for Community Building and Language Enhancement

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author uses her own experience starting and facilitating a book club to give advice to others interested in creating a book club in their schools or communities.

6. Research to Practice: A Discussion Group for Language Teachers

   In: Teacher's Corner: Professional Development for Teacher Trainers Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we present ways to support the professional development of English language teachers.

7. Teaching Register to EFL Writers: Formality and Deference in Written Communication

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The author discusses challenges related to teaching register in EFL contexts and uses specific examples to suggest strategies to overcome those challenges.

8. Adapting a Reading for Advanced Learners to Focus on Vocabulary

   In: Teacher's Corner: Adapting Materials for Students' Levels Format(s): Text

   When adapting materials, some teachers might think only about how to make them more accessible for beginners or lower level students; however, materials can also be adapted to be more challenging to meet the needs of more advanced learners.

9. Let’s Play Ball: Using Cultural Themes to Teach English

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

   This webinar will demonstrate how teachers can use one theme in American culture and society, Baseball, to give learners a toolkit for deciphering and using messages that contain a deep cultural context, no matter their source.

10. The Dialogue Journal: A Tool for Building Better Writers

    In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    Using dialogue journals gives English language learners valuable writing practice. This article explores topics such as audience, fluency, teacher-student relationships, empowerment, and making the connection to academic writing. And the author gives practical advice on how teachers can institute dialogue journals in their classrooms and how best to respond to students’ journals.

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