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1. Adapting Materials to Meet Your Classroom Needs

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

   This webinar teaches useful techniques to successfully adapt materials for your classroom.

2. Developing Discussion and Tutorial Leadership Skills in EFL Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The author explains how to use student-led tutorials to develop learners’ presentation, discussion, and listening skills creatively; among other benefits, the tutorials can increase all students’ social-discourse skills as they manage small-group discussions about topics of their own choosing.

3. Teaching Hospitality and Tourism: Building Leadership, Communication, and Intercultural Awareness

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

   This session, "Teaching Hospitality and Tourism: Building Leadership, Communication, and Intercultural Awareness," explores the benefits and challenges of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and will share practical ideas for how to prepare students for careers in hospitality and tourism.

4. Integrating STEAM and English with Oral Language Routines

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

   This session, " Integrating STEAM and English with Oral Language Routines," demonstrates how oral language routines can provide a simple, flexible way to support students at any age or level as they learn to communicate effectively about technical, mathematical, and scientific ideas.

5. Activate 21st Century Skills with Board Games in the Classroom

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

   This session, "Activate 21st Century Skills with Board Games in the Classroom", examines how playing board games can enable ELLs of all ages to develop authentic language skills while also practicing collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity!

6. The STAIR Framework for Interactive Online Activities

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

   This session, "The STAIR Framework for Interactive Online Activities," defines and explores the STAIR Framework, a four-part instructional design approach that builds dynamic student interaction into online or in-class activities.

7. STEAM-Powered Instruction: Practical Approaches for ELT Educators

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

   This session, "STEAM-Powered Instruction: Practical Approaches for ELT Educators," shares how experiential STEAM-related instruction can develop students’ 21st-century skills while they use the target language and have fun!

8. Getting Started with Project-Based Learning in STEAM

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

   This session, "Getting Started with Project-Based Learning in STEAM," discussed characteristics of strong projects in STEAM courses for students at different proficiency levels and guided participants in analyzing sample projects to identify their language features and completion requirements.

9. Skim, Scan, Run! An Active Approach to Developing Reading Macroskills

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

   This session, "Skim, Scan, Run! An Active Approach to Developing Reading Macroskills," shares a dynamic way to get students out of their seats—in both virtual and face-to-face settings—as they collaborate and communicate with classmates during a reading race that involves a variety of texts.

10. Effective e-reading: Helping Students Stay on Task While Reading Online

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

    This session, "Effective e-reading: Helping Students Stay on Task While Reading Online," explores strategies for more accurate and efficient e-reading; these approaches address reading skills such as fluency, synthesis, source tracking, and more!

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