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1. Considerations for Adapting Materials to Meet Learner Needs

   In: Teacher's Corner: Adapting Materials for Students' Levels Format(s): Text

   When adapting materials for language learners, teachers must consider a number of factors in order to offer an effective and relevant activity.

2. Adapting a Resource for Multi-Level Classrooms

   In: Teacher's Corner: Adapting Materials for Students' Levels Format(s): Text

   It is likely most English language teachers have had to teach a group of learners who vary greatly in their language abilities.

3. "Move and Say" to Build Foundational Reading Skills

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

   In the introduction for this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we defined phonemic awareness as a student’s ability to understand that words are made up of sounds.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Potential Models for the Service Component

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

   This week’s installment will present possible types of projects for the community-service portion of the service-learning project.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Week 3 - Global Pen Pals

   In: Teacher's Corner: Building Global Citizens Format(s): Text

   Are your students interested in meeting people from around the world? In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we provide guidance on setting your students up with global pen pals.

10. 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.

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