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1. Teacher's Corner: Comic Books for Learning

   Format(s): Text

   Comic books are a pleasure to read, but they can also be a great resource in the English classroom!

2. The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 2

   Format(s): Text

   The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 2, is a teacher’s resource book of fun activities for students of English as a Foreign Language.

3. 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.

4. Sing Out Loud Word Play: Music Resources for English Language Teachers

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

   This session, "Sing Out Loud! Wordplay: Music Resources for English Language Teachers," shares a new resource you can find on the American English website—diverse, music-based instructional materials that include free, downloadable audio tracks, videos, and classroom-ready activities. These low-prep activities are student-centered and fun for both teachers and learners!

5. Reflections: In Appreciation

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This is the fourth of four articles examining various aspects of Forum as the journal moves through its 60th year of publication. This article expresses appreciation for the ingenuity of authors who have written articles for Forum, the teachers who read the articles, and the learners who benefit from the ideas that are shared in those articles.

6. English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 2

   Format(s): Text

   Find strategies for listening to diverse English voices through podcasts … learn how to contextualize teacher training through needs analysis … read ideas on working with upper-class students as teaching assistants (TAs) … organize a “writing picnic” … get to know an English teacher in Slovenia … use “bear with superpowers” to introduce students to debating … and much more.

7. Collaborating Online: The Affordances of Online Word Processors with Students

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   With the Interactive-Constructive-Active-Passive (ICAP) framework as a foundation, author Robby Robinette presents two activities that teachers can use to incorporate collaboration into their online (and in-person) classes. The activities make use of students’ prior knowledge. The author suggests sources where teachers can find reading texts that are appropriate for the activities.

8. Week 4 - Math: Thinking Logically

   In: Teacher's Corner: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Format(s): Text

   In our final week of our STEM Teacher’s Corner series, students use both language and math skills to solve logic puzzles.

9. Career Opportunities

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

   For younger students, deciding on career opportunities can be challenging. With so many possibilities available, students may not be sure what types of jobs would be the best fit for them.

10. Using a Proofreading Checklist

    In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

    In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we share a simple activity that students lead and conduct in the final days before submitting an essay. The activity is aimed at helping students recognize errors before they submit their writing.

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