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1. Using Music, Chants, and Movement

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Young Learners Format(s): Text

   This Teacher’s Corner discusses how to use music, chants, and movement to create a lively, engaging classroom that appeals to multiple learning styles.

2. Week 2 - Annotated Read Aloud

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, learn how to incorporate critical thinking activities into an updated common classroom activity: reading aloud.

3. Picture Comparisons

   In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

   This week's Teacher's Corner activity features the use of pictures to encourage speaking and writing practice while using comparative adjectives.

4. 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.

5. Week 4 - List and Mingle with Mixed Grammar Skills

   In: Teacher's Corner: Grammar Games Format(s): Text

   Review a variety of grammatical concepts with the games presented in this week’s Teacher’s Corner.

6. Week 1 - Job Fair

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students will explore the world of employment by taking part in a job fair. Job fairs provide employers the opportunity to teach people about the work they do.

7. Week 1 - Science: Protecting the Environment

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

   Part of the growing interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education has been the push to make science and math more interesting and hands-on for students.

8. Engaging Students as Tutors, Trainers, and Leaders

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   While starting a tutoring program may seem like a daunting and time-consuming task, it does not have to be. The best way to approach the creation and development of a tutoring service is with a list of clear objectives. In this article, I describe the process I used to create a tutoring program with my English as a foreign language university students.

9. Towards Better Group Work: Seeing the Difference between Cooperation and Collaboration

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The author explains the difference between cooperation and collaboration in the classroom. Cooperation is students working together (each with individual tasks) for an end product, while collaboration is students interacting to create knowledge. The author discusses the strengths of collaboration and the teacher’s role. Also provided are guidelines for successful collaboration, sample activities, and frequently asked questions, such as what to do when students have emotional reactions to the group work.

10. Teaching English for and with Communities

    In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    This article is a reflection of English teaching in Chiclayo, Peru, at a not-for-profit cultural center. It starts with a brief explanation of the authors’ desire to help transform the community through English teaching. The article then explains the concept of civic education and offers a three-tiered approach that has been designed to help the community: Chiclayo reads, summer institute for k-12 English teachers, and the advanced curriculum. The implementation and results of the projects are discussed.

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