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1. Motivating Your Students with Rules, Routines, and Rewards

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Motivating Your Students with Rules, Routines, and Rewards," defines classroom rules, routines, and rewards in the English language classroom, their role in well-managed classes, and how their creation and effective use leads to learner engagement.

2. Social-Emotional Learning For Multilingual Learners: Fostering Growth

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Social-Emotional Learning For Multilingual Learners: Fostering Growth," engages participants in a rich dialogue about ways that social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies can help ELLs. The presentation provides background knowledge about SEL frameworks for ELLs and demonstrates a variety of classroom-ready SEL techniques.

3. Can't Stop

   In: American Rhythms Format(s): MP3

   This inspirational song by Ozomatli models the type of Latin music that you often hear on American radio stations. The song has influences of both salsa and rock, and combines rhythms from the two genres.

4. Photography in English Language Teaching: Engage, Inspire, Create, Learn

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar, "Photograph in ELT: Engage, Inspire, Create, Learn," shows teachers how to harness students' access to their own cameras on their mobile phones and bring this technology with them right into the English language classroom.

5. Art for All: Teaching Resources from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   "Art for All: Teaching Resources from the Metropolitan Museum of Art" webinar demonstrates how experience with art can support language development. This interactive session features an introduction to selections from the Met’s encyclopedic collection, strategies for engaging students with works of art, and an overview of related online resources available for teachers.

6. Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   Looking for ways to add art activities to your English language classroom? Create to Communicate is filled with great activities and lessons that use art to foster English language development.

7. Brain-Based Research & Language Teaching

   In: English Teaching Forum 2002, Volume 40, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article summarizes information on how the human brain works. It presents insights from research on the human brain that informs second and foreign language teachers. This article offers seven principles that can provide a general context for learning and teaching and lists some guidelines for selecting classroom materials, strategies, and methodologies.

8. A View of the Past: The Third Decade (1983 - 1992)

   In: English Teaching Forum 2002, Volume 40, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article reflects on the articles published at the third decade of Forum (1983-1992) to present theoretical perspectives and classroom practices discussed in the past ten years. It addresses four articles which focus on the communicative approach and related concepts, such as authentic use of the target language, learner-centered activities, and group work.

9. Module 2: Building Language Awareness

   In: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World Format(s): Text, Video

   This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on the details of the language within the context of language input.

10. Module 3: Integrating Skills

    In: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World Format(s): Text, Video, Website

    This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on the use of language skills together in social interaction.

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