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1. Formative Assessments: Part 2

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner discusses three additional types of formative assessments as well as how to use assessment data to have the greatest positive impact on student learning.

2. Fostering Student Motivation: Goal-Setting and Student Interest Questionnaires

   In: Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation Format(s): Text

   This week’s teaching tip illustrates how to use a beginning-of-course questionnaire activity to encourage students to think about motivation-related questions.

3. 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.

4. Week 1 - The Inverted Pyramid

   In: Teacher's Corner: Journalism Format(s): MP3

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students will work on understanding the parts of a news story. This week’s activity uses a graphic organizer about the inverted pyramid.

5. Week 1 - Building a Strong Classroom Community

   In: Teacher's Corner: Promoting Learner Engagement Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we offer three suggestions to promote student-student relationships. You can use these in your own classrooms as you work toward greater student engagement.

6. Introducing Topics and Activating Students' Background Knowledge

   In: Teacher's Corner – Teaching with Authentic Materials Format(s): Text

   This week will focus on warm-ups and activities to help students connect to authentic materials and create a meaningful context for practicing English.

7. Over-Tourism

   In: Teacher's Corner: Travel and Tourism Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the world of travel and tourism. With travel becoming easier and cheaper all around the world, people who live in popular tourist locations have begun to ask if too much tourism can be a problem. In this week’s activity, students will debate the positives and negatives of tourism.

8. Teacher’s Corner: What is a MOOC?

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, get tips for how to use MOOCs in and out of the classroom!

9. Teacher's Corner: New Year, New Focus on Student-Centered Learning

   Format(s): Text

   You may have encountered the idea of “student-centered classrooms” and may even be interested in making your classroom more student-centered. In the first Teacher’s Corner for the new year, we learn about what makes a classroom “student-centered” and then look at six different ways to integrate student-centered learning into the English language classroom.

10. Teacher's Corner: How Universal Design for Learning Supports Inclusive Learning Practices

    Format(s): Text

    More and more teachers are interested in making their lessons and classes more inclusive for a wide range of learners. Students with disabilities and other learning differences benefit from having materials, evaluations, and learning environments that are supportive of their learning needs. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we look at Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework that helps teachers plan for different learners in their classes. We explore some guidelines for UDL and ways to implement UDL in the classroom. Don’t forget to continue the discussion and get more ideas by joining the community at the AE Teachers Corner Facebook group!

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