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1. Strategies to Support Comprehension in Early Literacy

   In: Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners Format(s): Text

   Focusing on comprehension with beginner-level students can seem challenging. When students are just beginning to learn how to read, it can feel overwhelming to add comprehension activities.

2. Learning More About a Community Issue

   In: Teacher's Corner: Service Learning in the Language Classroom Format(s): Text

   Last week, students observed issues in the local community and brainstormed possible areas of focus for a service-learning project.

3. Objective Teaching Observations

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

   Teacher trainers are tasked with many responsibilities, but none cause as much stress for teachers and teacher trainers as evaluative observations.

4. Raising Phonological Awareness: A Task that benefits Language Learners with and without Learning Disabilities

   In: Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Format(s): Text

   Teachers are tasked with many roles in the language classroom. In addition to teaching language, many must also act as cultural interpreters, counselors, disciplinarians, motivational speakers, and more.

5. Getting Students Into Impromptu Groups and Pairs for Collaborative Learning - Part 1

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

   Group and pair work provide students frequent opportunities to practice using English with a variety of people in a lower-stakes setting.

6. Teaching Techniques: Nouns on the Job Market - An Approach for Recognizing Noun Position

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Using the employment analogy provides a fun and memorable way to help students relate to this sentence-level grammatical concept.

7. Try This: How Was Your Weekend?

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

   This activity is a kind of mingle. In a mingle, students move individually from classmate to classmate, usually with a question to ask or specific information to find.

8. Summative Assessments and Aligning Activities

   In: Teacher's Corner: Collecting and Using Data Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner focuses on options for summative assessment activities and rubrics.

9. Teaching Techniques: Physical Vocabulary in the Beginner-Level Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This activity allows students to create their own physical interpretation of a vocabulary word, which increases their ability to remember it (Asher 1996).

10. 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.

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