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1. Planning for and Managing Small Group Instruction

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

   This session, "Planning for and Managing Small Group Instruction," shares creative tips for how to plan for small group instruction, practice routines with students, and monitor the whole class while working with small groups of students.

2. Mastering the Multilevel Classroom

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

   This session, "Mastering the Multilevel Classroom," Dieter Bruhn shares innovative strategies that engage students and inspire them to learn and improve their language skills, regardless of class size or challenges inherent in multilevel settings.

3. Sing Out Loud! Wordplay: 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!

4. Scaffolding Project-Based Instruction: Supporting Student Success

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

   This session, "Scaffolding Project-Based Instruction: Supporting Student Success," identifies challenges faced during project-based learning (PBL) and shares scaffolding-based strategies to overcome them. Participants will deepen their understanding of both PBL and instructional scaffolding.

5. Alternatives to Classroom Debate

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

   This session, "Alternatives to Classroom Debate," explores the limitations of the traditional classroom debate format and introduces several alternatives ELT educators can use to cultivate the 21st-century skills their students need to discuss challenging topics.

6. Opening and Closing Routines for Multi-Level Classrooms

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

   This session, "Opening and Closing Routines for Multi-Level Classrooms ," demonstrates how to create strong beginnings and endings during language lessons to help teachers meet mixed-level student needs as well as their curriculum requirements.

7. Climate Change Communication and English Language Teaching

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

   This session, "Climate Change Communication and English Language Teaching," explores climate change vocabulary and vocabulary teaching tips, shares activity ideas, and introduces skills that will help learners analyze and communicate about climate change facts versus opinions.

8. Save the Planet and Cultural Traditions While Teaching English

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

   This session, "Save the Planet and Cultural Traditions While Teaching English," examines how environmental education can be integrated in ELT, explores TESOL educators’ readiness to teach this topic, and shares strategies to help students identify meaningful local environmental issues.

9. Promoting Authentic Language Use with Tasks

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

   This session, "Promoting Authentic Language Use with Tasks," explores Tasked-Based Language Teaching by introducing the four criteria of tasks, presenting task types, and sharing examples of successful classroom tasks.

10. The Line Between: Questions, Responses, and Critical Reading

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

    This session, "The Line Between: Questions, Responses, and Critical Reading," introduces the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) framework for building readers’ confidence in locating information in a text and turning to themselves to answer questions that require thinking beyond the text.

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