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1. Connecting to Learn: Growing Professionally through Teacher-to-Teacher Engagement

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

   This session, "Connecting to Learn: Growing Professionally through Teacher-to-Teacher Engagement," explores how connecting and conversing with peers can offer teachers great opportunities for professional growth.

2. Using Teacher-Developed Corpora in the CBI classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article argues for the use of teacher-generated corpora in content-based courses. Using a content course for engineering and architecture students as an example, the article explains how a corpus consisting of texts from textbooks and journal articles helped students learn grammar, vocabulary, and writing. The article explains how the corpus was compiled and presents examples of how students learned to analyze language use using corpus tools and dictionaries. The article ends by emphasizing the advantages of corpus analysis for self-directed learning.

3. Trace Effects Teacher's Manual

   Format(s): Text

   This Trace Effects manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks.

4. Teacher Talk: Presentation Skills for Teachers

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

   This webinar, "Teacher Talk: Presentation Skills for Teachers," explores the notions of Teacher Talk Time and Teacher Wait Time.

5. Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual

   Format(s): Text

   Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual offers twenty-six practical teaching strategies and techniques that originally appeared in Ideas Plus, a special series of publications produced by the National Council of Teachers of English.

6. Designing and Leading Professional Development for Teachers

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

   This session, "Designing and Leading Professional Development for Teachers," explores five core principles for planning teacher professional development based on transformative adult learning theory.

7. 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!

8. "Imported" Communicative Language Teaching: Implications for Local Teachers

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article criticizes the rejection of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in non-Western contexts. Teachers sometimes avoid CLT because it includes ideas (such as autonomy and choice) that do not always fit with the educational, social, and cultural perspectives of their areas. The author defines CLT, considers the issues that come with importing this teaching method, and offers suggestions to help EFL teachers adapt CLT to their contexts to create genuine communication.

9. Teachers Working Together: A Successful Community of Practice

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

   This session, "Teachers Working Together: A Successful Community of Practice," explores best practices and innovative ideas that can be shared and cultivated in a collaborative and engaging professional network called a Community of Practice (CoP).

10. American English Live - How Routines Support Effective Classroom Management and Teacher Planning

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

    This session, "Got Consistency? How Routines Support Effective Classroom Management and Teacher Planning," explores simple techniques to implement everyday routines that maximize student agency, learning, and participation while also increasing overall teaching efficacy.

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