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1. Activity 1 - Exit Tickets

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Meaningful Assessments Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner focuses on making and designing meaningful assessments to use in the English language classroom. This week, we show you an easy way to check in on your students’ learning and progress using “exit tickets.”

2. How to Conduct an ELT Workshop

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article serves to give readers a framework for planning, preparing, and delivering a successful workshop, including strategies to keep on pace and anticipate and overcome obstacles.

3. Try This: Current Events

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Using news in the classroom keeps students aware of events happening in local, national, and international communities, and it promotes critical thinking. This activity helps students become more aware of issues and events in the news to motivate them to have further discussions with classmates, family, or members of the community.

4. Week 1 - Language Experience Approach (LEA)

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills Format(s): Text

   This week, learn about the Language Experience Approach activity.

5. Week 4 - Breaking the Ice With Modals

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

   Icebreaker activities are great ways to get students talking. Icebreakers are even better when students are both talking and practicing a specific language skill or component.

6. Week 3 - News Media Observation Jigsaw

   In: Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy Format(s): Text

   This week’s jigsaw activity will allow students to analyze what they observed and share ideas with classmates.

7. Digital Literacies: Practical Approaches for the ELT Classroom

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

   This session, "Digital Literacies: Practical Approaches for the ELT Classroom," aims to clarify the multiskill “digital literacies” construct and explore how and why these skills can be integrated into English language instruction.

8. Online Reading Strategies for the Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article presents three clear strategies for reading online content effectively and productively, with examples and a helpful discussion of differences between reading content online and reading printed texts.

9. Story Retelling with a Twist

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to carrying out a versatile, well-scaffolded activity that can improve learners’ speaking skills and keep them engaged through the use of stories and jokes with surprising and unexpected endings.

10. A Systematic Process for Assessing Assessment

    In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    “How to assess assessments is often a dilemma for teachers and English language programs,” the author writes, and then goes on to offer a number of suggestions, charts, and guiding questions designed to help solve that dilemma.

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