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1. Formative Assessments: Part 1

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways to ensure your students have learned the target content. In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we look at formative assessments to use in your classroom.

2. Formative Assessments: Part 2

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   This week’s Teacher’s Corner discusses three additional types of formative assessments as well as how to use assessment data to have the greatest positive impact on student learning.

3. Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways teachers can positively impact student motivation. Begin with this reflection activity about language learning.

4. Fostering Student Motivation: Reflecting on Teacher Experiences and Building Awareness of Motivation-Related Factors

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways teachers can positively impact student motivation. Begin with this reflection activity about language learning.

5. Fostering Student Motivation: Goal-Setting and Student Interest Questionnaires

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   This week’s teaching tip illustrates how to use a beginning-of-course questionnaire activity to encourage students to think about motivation-related questions.

6. AE Programs

   The Office of English Language Programs provides programs for English language teachers and learners. All programs are implemented by Regional English Language Officers (RELOs) at American Embassies or Consulates.

7. Fostering Student Motivation: Reflection and Self-Assessment with "I Can" Checklists

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   This week's teaching tip illustrates how to use an objectives-based checklist that asks students to reflect on and assess their progress.

8. Fostering Student Motivation: Self-Directed Learning with the "Reading Train"

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   This week’s teaching tip demonstrates how to use a combination of student choice, friendly competition, fun visuals, and rewards to motivate students to read more in English.

9. Teacher's Corner: Making Grammar Fun

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner looks at ways to make grammar fun by teaching it in context.

10. Prepositions of Location: The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

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    This week’s activity focuses on teaching prepositions through a virtual visit to the U.S. National Museum of Natural History!

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