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1. Planning a Professional Development Workshop

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

   Teacher training and professional development opportunities do not need to be complicated or expensive.

2. Getting Students Into Pairs and Groups for Collaborative Learning - Part 2

   In: Teacher's Corner: Classroom Management Format(s): Text

   As we saw in last week’s Teacher’s Corner, the process of creating student groups doesn’t have to be boring! This week we will explore more ideas on how to create impromptu groups for collaborative learning activities and projects.

3. Making the Most of Large Classes by Using Learning Teams

   In: Teacher's Corner: Common Challenges in the English Classroom Format(s): Text

   Large classes can be challenging. Learn ways to make the most of large classes by using learning teams in this week’s Teacher’s Corner.

4. Teacher's Corner: Setting Up For Business English Success

   Format(s): Text

   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we look at how to teach grammar in ways that help students to build their communicative competence. A communicative grammar lesson gives students the opportunity to practice the target grammar item through specific communicative tasks and activities.This month’s article is filled with ideas and resources to help students use the language they are learning.

5. Building Your PLN Through Professional Support Networks and Associations

   In: Teacher's Corner: Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner will look at how involvement in professional support networks and associations can contribute to your personal learning network.

6. The Rio–Warsaw Connection: Encouraging Interculturalism among Students

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   It all began in Norwich. As they do every year, teachers from different parts of the world went in July 2012 to that beautiful little city in the east of England to take part in one of the two-week professional development courses offered by the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE).

7. Making Writing Fun

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Learning Fun Format(s): Text

   Get creative with this week’s Teacher’s Corner! This activity is a fun way to encourage students to write in English.

8. Profits or Preservation?

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   Using role-plays in your English language classroom is a great way to get students talking. In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students role-play a scenario about deforestation.

9. Prepositions of Movement

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner includes a fun treasure hunt activity during which students practice prepositions of movement.

10. Reading to Support Writing

    In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

    This week, we explain how to integrate reading into the academic writing curriculum by teaching students to conduct close readings and make annotations of their sources.

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