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1. Week 3 - Personal Profiles

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

   It's important to build a classroom community throughout the year. In this week's Teacher's Corner, learn about a daily activity that can foster community development in your classroom.

2. Understanding Culturally Responsive Social and Emotional Learning in Language Classrooms

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

   This session, "Understanding Culturally Responsive Social and Emotional Learning in Language Classrooms," explores the importance of leveraging our students' cultural backgrounds in the ELT classroom as well as the value that social and emotional learning (SEL) has on students’ academic and lifelong success.

3. My Classroom: Mexico (Online Only)

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Fabiola Cruz Arellano is the only English teacher at the Profesor Carlos Hank González Elementary School in Toluca, where each week she teaches 850 students in the first through sixth grades. Ms. Cruz provides one 50-minute English lesson each week to 22 groups of students, with 40 to 55 students in each classroom.

4. Week 1 - Building a Strong Classroom Community

   In: Teacher's Corner: Promoting Learner Engagement Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we offer three suggestions to promote student-student relationships. You can use these in your own classrooms as you work toward greater student engagement.

5. My Classroom: Mexico

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Learn how English teacher Celeste Fernández transmits her enthusiasm for English – and for life – to her students.

6. Week 4 - Room Design to Facilitate Movement and Learning

   In: Teacher's Corner: Movement in the Classroom Format(s): Text

   Be creative with your classroom setup and consider new ways to group your students in this week’s Teacher’s Corner.

7. Around the World

   In: Teacher's Corner: Travel and Tourism Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students are tasked with creating a Pecha Kucha presentation on an around-the-world trip.

8. Maps and Legends

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 2 Format(s): Text

   The author of this student-directed reading, Michael Chabon, shares his experience as a pioneer of the Columbia Experiment. Columbia’s renewal was the dream of James Rouse, who put together a team of city planners to design a lovely, convenient, modern city where races lived together in harmony. Chabon writes about the impact of living with the dream and vision of the city’s development. Since the late 1960s, Columbia has grown from a few thousand people to the second largest city in Maryland.

9. Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education

   Format(s): Text

   The content in each volume of this e-journal is related to an aspect of building or maintaining a Civil Society - topics that affect students' personal or professional lives on a daily basis. The topic of this volume is civic education. Through the exploration of topics related to civic education, language teachers can help their students master English and simultaneously become more knowledgeable citizens of the world.

10. 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!

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