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1. Poems About Family and Friends

   In: Poetry Format(s): Text

   Poems about family and friends.

2. Fully Online Courses

   In: Teacher's Corner: Online Learning Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner highlights a few options we can use to work with students in the online learning space. We will discuss options for MOOCs (massive open online courses) and for building your own online courses.

3. Trend 2 - Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

   In: Teacher's Corner: Education Trends and Issues in the World Today Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we will explore a variety of Internet-based tools that can be used in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) classroom.

4. Poems About Places

   In: Teacher Resources Format(s): Text

   Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read or download the poems!

5. Positive Language in the EFL Classroom

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner explores a few quick ways to use tone, words, and body language to foster positive classroom rapport, mutual respect, and trust.

6. Week 4 - Successfully Navigating Intercultural Interactions (Part 4)

   In: Integrating Critical Thinking Into The Exploration Of Culture Format(s): Text

   Each week of this month’s Teacher’s Corner has required students to reflect and think critically in order to deepen their understanding of culture and how it can affect interactions. This week, students will apply their experience and knowledge to figure out how to make intercultural interactions successful, even if they are challenging.

7. Teacher's Corner: Visual Note-Taking

   Format(s): Text

   Our students live in a world of videos and photos, logos and emojis, abbreviations and instant messages.

8. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Vocabulary — What Does It Mean To “Know” A Word?

   Format(s): Text

   Learning vocabulary is an essential part of learning a language. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we look at ways to build and enrich students’ vocabulary. Join us to explore ways to build students’ acquisition and comprehension of vocabulary.

9. Teacher's Corner: A Story of Design Thinking in the Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   Design thinking is a concept that has received growing attention in the United States in recent years. This approach to problem-solving is also valuable for turning our classrooms into spaces that prepare our students to solve meaningful challenges in the world in addition to learning English language skills. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we explore the concept of design thinking and consider how we can implement it in our teaching and classroom.

10. Week 3 - Making Requests with Modals

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

    In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students learn the various ways to make requests using modals.

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