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

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   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.

2. Teacher's Corner: Education Trends and Issues in the World Today

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   This month in the Teacher’s Corner, we will explore four educational approaches designed to provide students more opportunities to apply, analyze, evaluate, and create in the classroom. This week, learn how to incorporate the 21st Century Skills into the English language classroom.

3. Making Reading Fun

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we look at a fun reading activity that can be adapted for different reading levels.

4. Week 2 - Collaboration and Movement Using Four Corners

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   This week’s Teacher’s Corner offers a lesson that uses Four Corners to promote collaboration and encourage movement to keep class lively and active. In groups, students will be assigned a grammar point and work together to prepare an activity to teach the grammar point to each other.

5. Blended Learning

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

   This week, we discuss blended learning. We provide a list of tools teachers can use as well as practical suggestions for how to use them to create a blended learning classroom.

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

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   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.

7. Teaching Techniques: Group Grammar

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

   Before becoming a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, I taught French, and too often I saw that impersonal grammar exercises about “Jacques” and “Nathalie” were meaningless to the students. Worse, those exercises led to apathy and stagnation. So I decided to do grammar activities in which students used each other’s names, instead of random ones, and used the grammar to express ideas about their own lives.

8. Involving Students in Classroom Routines and Processes

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, you are encouraged to think about what you do to involve students using the suggestions in the

9. Modal Verbs & Adverb Clauses of Reason: Stranded on the Moon

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

   What would you do if your spacecraft crashed on the moon? Students use modal verbs and adverb clauses and work as a team in this week’s fun activity.

10. Teacher's Corner: Engaging English Language Learners with New Forms of Literacy

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    In the 21st century, our students have to know how to read and communicate using more than just words on paper or a computer screen. Communication takes many forms, and our classroom teaching will benefit by bringing in these new forms of communication. April’s Teacher’s Corner looks at several new literacies: instant messaging, comics and graphic novels, short-form videos, and podcasting. We explore what these forms are and how we can use them in the classroom to help students develop their language skills and to solve problems in an ever-changing world of communication.

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