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1. Week 2 - Making Expectations Clear

   In: Creating a Positive Classroom Community Format(s): Text

   The success of a class can depend on the transparency of its expectations and outcomes. When expectations and outcomes of a course are unclear, both students and teachers can become frustrated and struggle with the course.

2. Business Start Up

   In: Teacher's Corner: Career Vocabulary Format(s): Text

   This week, students will have the opportunity to practice communicating business ideas to the rest of class by creating a start-up business.

3. Teacher's Corner: Visual Note-Taking

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   Our students live in a world of videos and photos, logos and emojis, abbreviations and instant messages.

4. Audacity: Audio Recording Software

   In: Teacher's Corner: Technology Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine four types of technology that can help achieve classroom goals. Each tool is free to use. In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we look at a free recording program, give step-by-step guidelines for using it, and suggest ways to create classroom materials with it.

5. Flipped Classrooms

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we will examine a form of blended learning known as the flipped classroom model and look at the tools needed to help build a flipped classroom.

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. 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.

8. My Classroom: Peru

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

   This article was written by Deanna Paglia, an English and Spanish second language teacher and teacher trainer who is currently the English Language Fellow hosted by Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano in Arequipa, Peru.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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