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1. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below.

2. Maintaining Your Virtual Personal Learning Network

   In: Teacher's Corner: Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner addresses a few common concerns related to maintaining a large personal learning network.

3. Activities for the Present Progressive: "I'm Standing on a Corner"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   In this week’s activity, students practice the present progressive while asking for directions.

4. Cops and Robbers: "We Were Watching a Movie at the Movie Theater"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner activity, students practice the past progressive during a role play in order to solve a crime.

5. Progressive Tense: "He is Looking for Emma Fields"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a video game and a jigsaw activity for students to review the present, past, and future progressive

6. Activity for Progressive Tense Review: He is looking for Emma Fields

   Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a video game and a jigsaw activity for students to review the present, past, and future progressive.

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. Backward Design and Alignment of Assessments

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

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways to ensure your students have learned the target content. This week, we look at backward design of lesson planning.

9. Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation

   Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways teachers can positively impact student motivation. Begin with this reflection activity about language learning.

10. Fostering Student Motivation: Reflection and Self-Assessment with "I Can" Checklists

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

    This week's teaching tip illustrates how to use an objectives-based checklist that asks students to reflect on and assess their progress.

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