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Teacher Training

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It’s summer and thought I’d quickly share some Teacher Training  resources I have created/organized for teachers.

Please see the Teacher Training Channel for many presentation like those below (now all available in flash). Also, our full library of teacher training items. Further, a sterling list of archived articles – Must Reads!

This list and video library of Educational Thinkers has a lot of valuable learning.

Please be sure to see the handbooks in this Professional Development category and also both our Prof. Development page and our Teacher Training area with 15 modules/transcripts/readings + additional readings.

Teacher training is a growing area and the more shared learning we can make possible, the easier it is on all of us! Further GO HERE for a full series of podcasts featuring all the components of Linguistics. A great course, each unit is about 30 min of listening!

Finally, the TED HD player I created has them all – all the presentations since the dawn of TED time.

Thinking About Schools: some resources

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illychI’ve been teaching a course to pre-service B.Ed. students – Schools and Education.   I basically have a lot of room to “do my thing” and really just get students to challenge their set values, beliefs and preconceptions about what is school and what is an “education”.  I can rant and rave but more often challenge them with questions that they find their own answer to.

I thought it would be useful to share some of the links I recommend to students through the blackboard we use (admittedly many are Canadian since that is where I teach). So here you go. Lots of great pickings to get your own brain, your own juices thinking differently about school and education. And we must, we must never become entrenched and cornered into a set idea, a set paradigm. Education itself is always moving, always changing. We need teachers who realize this and act with this in mind. Never stay still, keep moving ……..

General Reading

Freire – The Future of School http://www.papert.org/articles/freire/freirePart1.html

Freire – 4th Letter / Letter to my teacher. Qualities

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/legacy/research/freire/pk.html?cms_page=freire/pk.html

Summerhill, O’Neill, Forward by Eric Fromm.

Teaching As A Subversive Activity, Postman and Weingarten.

After Deschooling, Ivan Illich

James Baldwin – A talk to teachers. Race. http://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm

Law: Myers vs Peel board of ed. Negligence. http://scc.lexum.org/en/1981/1981scr2-21/1981scr2-21.html

Brown, A., Legal handbook for educators, 6th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2009)

Watkinson, Education, Students rights and the charter. Chpt 5.

Negotiating power in the classroom: Briskin http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cws/article/viewFile/8766/7943

http://www.ucalgary.ca/dtoolkit/bibliography

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Teacher: Selected Writings.

http://www.youblisher.com/p/118604-The-unbearable-lightness-of-being-a-teacher/

 

Links/blogs/online references

Advice for teachers L.Ferlazzo list - http://t.co/PGHlRjv

Mike Rose graduation speech -  http://bit.ly/nXvFZ0

How to prevent another da vinci - http://wanderingink.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/how-to-prevent-another-leonardo-da-vinci/

Kyle. My education poem - http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/my-education

Cosby Speech - http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/bill-cosbys-life-lesson

Teacher Talk Best posts: http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2011/08/29/bests-posts-2010-2011

Ira Socol: http://speedchange.blogspot.com

Uninspired Teacher - http://uninspiredteacher.blogspot.com

Stephen Dowes http://www.downes.ca/

Joe Bower http://www.joebower.org/

Clay Burrell - http://beyond-school.org/

Larry Ferlazzo – Best advice to new teachers. http://bit.ly/pFo2Jj

CEA - http://www.cea-ace.ca/blog

David Wees - http://davidwees.com

David Warlich – 2 cents worth - http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

George Couros – Princples of change - http://georgecouros.ca/blog/

Chris Wejr - http://mrwejr.edublogs.org

 

Social Networking

Can Educators on LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=4052478&trk=anet_ug_grppro

Canadian Educators on Twitter - http://twitter.com/#!/davidwees/canadian-educator/members

Unplugged Cnd Educators - http://www.unplugd.ca/index.html

Podcasts:

The purpose of education: CBC roundtable.

http://www.cbc.ca/informationmorningns/2011/04/the-purpose-of-education.html

John Taylor Gatto – Letter to my granddaughter. Unschooling.

http://huffduffer.com/eflclassroom/33588

What makes a great teacher? How to know?

http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2010/11/What-makes-a-great-teacher-13p3zjh.mp3

 

Videos:

Ken Robinson: Your Element http://vimeo.com/9842035

Benjamin Zander: Ted. http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

Viktor Frankl http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/mans-search-for-meaning

Krashen: Poverty and education http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLcootlU9lc

Hall Dennis revisited. http://bit.ly/phfYNS

TVO roundtable-one size fits all? http://bit.ly/oCK5pz

Yourvoice – Is school essential to your child’s learning? http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoparents/index.cfm?page_id=483&event_id=1485

Your Voice – The Classroom Mirror. Do schools reflect reality/diversity?    http://bit.ly/npLimf

Africentric Schools? - http://community.eflclassroom.com/profiles/blogs/africentric-culturecentric

Finne Cherian: Best University lecturer Ontario – Reflections on Schooling. Unbinding baby elephants

http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?video11429 – reflections

http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?video11066 – lecture

TVO : What makes a great teacher. Roundtable.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXaLGt460e4
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If you liked this post, you may like – Self Directed Learning Part 1

Keeping the ideas flowing….

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I think that the godhead, the soul, the core of the new technology paradigm is “the pipeline of ideas”. We now have the ability to correspond, share, connect, learn with, learn from, engage so many, all over the world. This is truly revolutionary and changing the world – especially our own teaching world.

So I’ve spent more work and energy to share with my fellow teachers!

1. I returned to a site I created Teaching Recipes and gave it a makeover. Now more shareable, now easier to share your own recipes/ideas. Give it a try and share what you know with other teachers.

2. Lessons In A Can is something I’m very proud of. Hundreds of full lessons described with resources. Not only described but a perfect training vehicle for teachers as I outline the rationale for the materials and the purpose of the lessons and materials. Take a view here of all the lessons available.

3. Of course – use the free coursebook I provide for all teachers Teach | Learn.

Lets keep the ideas flowing………..

Finding Stuff

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It’s not easy on the web these days. There is so much and seemingly so little time. The more search engines are perfected, the more social media evolves, the more notifications improve, we still seem way behind and fail at keeping up with “the new”. Noise abounds too….

I guess like that marvelous Beckett (Godot) quote, “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” So for my own community EFL Classroom 2.0, I keep fighting the good fight and helping teachers find what’s there in our vast library.

Two recent things might help.

1. Page Highlights. We have hundreds of pages with great content to help teachers. But not easy to find them, especially the “gems”. So here is a presentation giving you what I feel are the best that are there. Go HERE to browse and search them all at your leisure.

Pages On EFL Classroom 2.0

 

2. Lessons In A Can. These 131 lessons are for Supporters of EFL Classroom 2.0. Supporters pay a one time, life time lasting $19.95. It gives them great resources including access to these Lessons. The money raised helps cover our costs. Lately, not a lot of supporter donations and I feel mostly because many don’t know the value of these lessons. Nothing out there like this – each fully described, with amazing downloads/printables/media/ppts included. So this presentation gives a peek at these lessons (links for the materials not working). Lots of recipes to last a lifetime.

Lessons in a can 1 to 30

 

Gems of EFL 2.0: Poetry in the Classroom

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Poetry is in my soul (read my own, if interested HERE) and I think if used correctly, it is a powerful activity in the EFL Classroom.

In that vein, find a plethora of resources on the Poetry In The Classroom page. Lots of ideas and printables (click the links at the top of the page), you can use immediately in your classroom. Your students will discover the English poet in themselves and when students use language in creative ways, they become very empowered and more confident, less fearful of the second language.

* Read my full blog post on this topic. Read about more gems of EFL Classroom in this series.

Gems of EFL 2.0: Our Teacher Toolbox

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The Teacher Toolbox is something I’m proud of. I’m a curator and enjoy finding “the best”, especially the best things to help teachers. On this page are certainly the “top” of the top – things every teacher can use and put to use in their class right away.

There are clocks for timing students. I love the Super Timer!
There are generators galore – I love the student name generator!
There are sensational selectors of all sorts. I love the dice, great for playing games.
There is so much. Forms, organizers, vocabulary tools, IWB tools, the list goes on ….. A real gem of a page.

Read more about our other gems in the series.

Gems of EFL 2.0: Top Content

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There is so much on EFL Classroom 2.0, the biggest challenge is finding it! I’m trying my best to help teachers and learners in this discovery process and work hard at making the main page search, tag search, tag clouds work. Posts like this “gem” series help too.

However, they is even a better way to find out what’s great on the community – Top Content. It’s a page full of what members think is “hot”. I recommend using it and finding lots of great content. Also, click the red sidebar tab. There, you can find a whole list of pages that members are on at the moment. People like to be where other people are! (you can even see all the data for the site there; visits, page views etc…. no secrets here).

The best way YOU can help others find great stuff? Just tweet, facebook, like it! Others will have a better chance of visiting it and knowing about it. You can now even comment right to facebook on all our pages.

It’s Not A Box – Synectics

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My university recently hosted the ICE (Imagination / Creativity / Education) Conference. Instead of giving a presentation and being all concerned with that – decided to join many of my student teachers and enjoy a day of attending the workshops and gathering ideas. So glad I did!

The highlight for me was an Art workshop: Exploring Your Creative Process Through Reflection, Dialogue and Art Making. Basically, we explored the concept of Synectics. We used the book, “Not A Box” (see video below) as “a trigger” to get us risk taking and creating. Something language teachers can do too. I k!now Ken Robinson has made creativity a bigger issue in education (video) but are we doing enough? This lesson really engenders and promotes creativity!

Basically, after reading the book together, we were put into groups and each group given a box. Each group had a box that was of differing sizes, some huge, some tiny. Then, we were asked to say, “This is not a box but this is a …….”. Then, redesign our creation and talk about what principles of Synectics we used while creating.

Synectics is a way of promoting creativity in any kind of class, not just art. Take a look at this wordle and think about how you could use these principles of Synectic design, to “redesign” your own lesson, activity, curriculum into something more creative and “thoughful”.

My group's creation

Not a box. It's a fridge!

Not like the others is a game I made that does the same. Also, this activity is much the same. Basically, we ask our students to think “outside the box”. Try it – you’ll really have a fun, engaging lesson!

Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

Using Songs in the EFL Classroom

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This presentation has always been a fav. of teachers. Here, I add a voiceover and summarizing some of the main points (ever so quickly). Click on the presention to listen and use the slideshow underneath to go to resources highlighting each point (by clicking on the photos). Additionally, the “song” tag gives post gives with more information about using song in our classrooms.

If you liked this post, you might like – Songs With Lyric Sheets

Bests Posts 2010-2011

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I’d like to share as the year comes to a close – My best “Teaching Advice” blog posts. Also, my best “Practical Teaching Posts”.

[Next - I'll outline the Best posts about "Language". ]

Note: all posts link to the EFL Classroom 2.0 blog which is now public. If not a member – join us!

Also invaluable - 

The #1 in ELT Series of posts and my ebook – The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Teacher. .  Supporters will also benefit from the“I”m a Newbie Teacher” group - a complete directory of great resources!

 

Best Teaching Advice Posts:

1. Lessons For Teachers from “The King’s Speech”

2. Faking It.

3. Making what you do “Stick”.

4. In Praise of Slowness

5. Teaching Is ……

6. Using Video – The Coming Revolution

7. Surviving As A Teacher

8. Follow Your Nose

9. Giving Students Room to do their own thing.

10. Stepping Back to Jump Ahead

11. What Makes A Classroom Fit To Live In?

12. The 5 Enemies

13, Chopping Wood – A metaphor for teaching

14.25 Ways of being a good teacher

15. The 7 sensational sins of good teachers  AND  Deadly Sins

16. In Praise of Praise

17.My Teaching Village advice posts.

18. The Future of Learning

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“Practical” Teaching Posts

1. Classroom decorating ideas

2. Song Lyric Sheets

3. Teaching with a blank piece of paper

4. Authentic Materials

5. Going to Pieces

6. Making a Doodle Video

7. Using Flashcards

8. Drawing Resources

9. 2 Way Tasks

10. Blank Dialogue Videos

11. Making Storybooks

12.PPT Games Series

13. Poetry in the Classroom

14. Kinetic Typography videos

15. Using Silent Video and Using Video

Going to Pieces

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Most enthusiastic language teachers “Go To Pieces”, meaning they literally use material that is in pieces and compels students to practice and communicate. At its heart, “pieces” is a way of teaching that puts communication at the core of language teaching and learning.

Think about it. “Pieces” as an approach or frame, stretches over a wide swath of materials, methods and delivery practices. The blank dialogue is front and center. But you also have jigsaw type activities. Gap fills are basically whole texts in parts (some parts missing). Retelling is basically putting the pieces of a story back together again. Same with sequence or ordering activities. I could go on and on – there are so many activities which the teacher deconstructs and asks the students to reconstruct – to put the pieces back together again….

I want to highlight one such activity. Yesterday, still after 8 months, unpacking my boxes of books and writings, came across this poem, one of a series I made at the time. From one newspaper, I made a collage, a poem.

This would be a simple but wonderfully creative and student centered activity. Give students any disposable text (flyers, magazines, newspapers, brochures) and let them be creative. Then present to the class or share in some form.

Go to pieces is a great philosophy for a language teacher. Why I’ve told many of my student teachers over the years that a pair of scissors is the best friend, most important tool in their kit.

Maybe during this activity, you can play this great tune – “Pick up the pieces”. 80s funk at its best.

Guessing Games

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A short post about a very BIG topic – Guessing. Along with prediction, it is a very important skill in any English teachers arsenal and one that can be used with great effectiveness.

Last night, was visiting this amazing site – Children’s Books Online: The Rosetta Project (to make a literary book I’m working on) I couldn’t help putting some things from it together to make the Riddle Book more presentable.

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Students read and guess. You can even take the ppt and print out the pages and give to students who can do this in pairs/small groups. A nice activity and appealing for the “retro” photos!

Other ideas for guessing games? Just a few brief ones off the top of my head….

1. I’ve use the green board a lot with flashcards stuck on it. But just a big series of photos will do. Describe and students guess. Try these online photos of musicians!

2. Pictionary / Charades are BIG! Try Draw My Thing online…

3. Online. Why not reverse things and let students see if the computer can guess? Try AKINATOR! Also, for young learners – What’s In The Bag is great! Or how about, Where’s The Bell for phonics?

Poetry in the EFL Classroom

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I’ve written a lot about using poetry in the classroom. However, came across my old audio page collection and noted Billy Collins great audio recordings (see below) – couldn’t help sharing. Decided to collect his wonderful “visual” poems in a nice player. Find them, along with more resources and other great poems for use in the EFL Classroom HERE.

poetryEnjoy and please let us know how you have or might use poetry in your classroom!

BILLY
COLLINS

The #1 …. site for debate materials

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Number One** Not your ordinary, endless list – just what’s number 1.

True Tube

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I’ve been on TrueTube since the beginning and watched it flourish as a go to site for great, critical content for educational use. In the beginning, a one woman show, now a big production. A real educational success story.

The materials are A+ and all the categories revolve around an issue. For example (because it is in the news), The Royal Family . Along with materials that you can directly use in class. Many, many categories/debates. I particularly recommend and have used – Beauty vs Intelligence and Degree vs Training

As they say on the site:

TrueTube is a FREE teaching resource offering:

High-quality youth-led videos on social issues to inspire classroom debate
Free resources and film-making tools to help bring your teaching to life!

A plethora of authentic material with a youth flavor for your classroom.

Find other debate material on EFL Classroom 2.0. Lots of instructional materials for EFL / ESL on how to hold a debate, topics, organizers, powerpoints and more…

Earth Day – April 22

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earth_dayEarth. It is such an important concept and relationship for students. A must to use in our curriculum, I don’t care what you teach. Take the opportunity to do something with your class this Earth Day, this spring! Revel in the gift that she gives, mother earth.

Here are some resources, videos, ideas you might use or that might spark a lesson.

My fav. videos.

HOME is a definite classic now. This video really gives an appreciation of the variety and abundance of our earth.

The Pale Blue Dot. Here is the transcript. Use this amazing kinetic typography video along with the original video. Another teacher, has a nice version too, translated into Farsi – find it here.


Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

The Story of Stuff. Educational materials also there. A perfect documentary showing how we must change our relationship with mother earth.

Cosmic Zoom. Outstanding way to show the vastness of this world.
My fav. sites.

Geography at the Movies. Browse their archive for great geography related, teacher made and produced video and content.

One Day in the World. I participated in this project. (find my video in Vancouver! Robson Ave.). Browse the map and choose authentic video all shot on 10/10/10 to celebrate the earth!

Time Lapse photography. Take your pic – I love this one of a forest and many seasons.

Get all the “earth day” videos on EFL Classroom 2.0

My fav. ideas for lessons.

1. Get out of the classroom if possible. Field trips, excursions, pick up garbage in the school yard. But speak English!

2. The 3 Rs. Do a lesson plan around Reduce | Reuse | Recycle. Students simply brainstorm ideas and make a poster to present to the class. How can your school do better?

3. Make a mini book. Students fold one piece of paper, make a book called, MY EARTH. Students draw pictures, label, the things that make their earth important.

4. REAL English. Write a letter to a member of parliament, the UN., the WWW, about what you want our leaders to do. Save animals, plant trees, fight pollution. The ideas are important and students will get motivated by a REAL task.

Other links / things.

1. The World Sunlight Map.

2. World Stats clock. Social Media world stats.

3. Games: Climate Challenge. | Sweat Shoe shop | 3rd World Farmer

4. Songs: Earth Song. | We are the World | Big Yellow Taxi | What a Wonderful World | Beds are Burning

5.Woices. Browse authentic audio recordings. Make your own. All on a handy map from all over the world.

So many ideas! Share your own……

CDLP – a wonderful adult listening site

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CDLP – The California Distance Learning Project, is one of the many governmental sites leading the way towards free online learning resources.

It doesn’t have a lot of “flash” but it has an abundance of semi authentic materials with audio and extra vocabulary study. Excellent stuff that will interest students. Just choose a category and find audio / video and text. Students can return there after class for more practice. While the vocabulary study is just a mish mash of stuff, it does help. Note – this site is designed for adult learners.

I can see teachers copying the script and using this in class to design materials along with the great audio that supports it. You could even have students present an article every day and then design discussion activities for each.

A wonderful resource and along with USA Learns, the other American resource site for adult learners – makes me want to sing, “God Bless America”!

My Year in Review

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Vision2010_LogoYes, that time again.  Time for all the “reviews” of what happened in 2010.  Time for all the pundits to come out of the closet and do their thing.

I won’t bore you by doing much the same. However, I do think that those new to this blog/site might do well to be reminded of all I’ve worked on this year and which might come handy in their classroom! I’m proud of my work ethic (non profit!) and 2010 was a dandy…..  [not interested in this? - try the IHTs 2010 year in review slideshow or scroll to the bottom and see Google's Zeitgeist video]

My Year in Review:

Jan: fell in love with English Central after contacting former Nuance execs about a voice recognition reading idea. Worked with them and they took my suggestion to add a teacher tracking area. Sign up as a teacher and track your students as they practice with this amazing technology. In 2011, English Central will come out with a new learning system. Stay tuned!

Feb: Gave a fav. speech on “The 5 Faces of Happiness”, about teaching and happiness.  Lots of great feedback from the large crowd. Watch  an excerpt and get resources  here.

March: As usual – lots of orientations / greeting new teachers for the large public school teaching programs in Korea (EPIK / SMOE ).  Featured presentation at the Annual Seoul Conf. on culturally specific content.

April: the Random ELT Blog Generator gets a start. Designed with over 300 ELT blogs. Just click a button and let serendipity do the rest!

May: My own profile/portfolio page goes live. (got to update it!). More training / traveling. Our Quizlet group starts up and now has hundreds of publicly available flashcard sets!

June: TEFList, the only ELT job site that has all the jobs is launched. I’d been working on it almost 2 years! It will remain available and free for teachers. Also the twitter feed of over 400 jobs daily!  Ning begins killing off free sites and I lose 8 micro sites and loads of content. Boo!  Lots of work providing World Cup resources for teachers!

July: Gave a graduation speech and left my job teaching at a graduate school of TEFL, to return to Canada. Lots of sadness and hope mixed together. Want to be near my parents and also “walk the talk”. Teach a TEFL certificate course online.    My book “Zen and the Act of Teaching” comes out. The best Web 2.0 tools for teaching languages is produced after use in several training sessions.

August: EFL Classroom hosts the 18th ELT blog carnival. A real carnival! Lots of lectures to new teachers. ELT and Tech, a technology and teaching languages tutorial site is launched.  Start my “Captive Mind” series in response to academia’s walling of content.

September: The #1 in ELT ebook comes out.   Finally leave for Canada to start chopping wood.

October: I begin working on a video conference system to be available Jan. 2011. Based on open source software development, it is unique and embraces my own ideas of what functionality/use an eteaching room should have. [It's really cool].  Started the LinkedIn group – ELT Professionals around the world. Join us!

November: Begin hard work on my forthcoming textbook – Teach / Learn. Lots of work left but I think it a revolutionary methodolgy and way for new teachers especially to teach effectively.   Raised from the dead, the old Seti Teachers site and it is renamed “School of TEFL”. So much content for teachers – couldn’t let it die.  Made available – Record and Email a Video for teachers

December: snowed in, in Canada. Began with earnest working on the content for my new TEFL Certificate course with a concentration in educational technology. Classes start late Feb.  Fully accredited. Site will be working in Jan. for registration.   Create a cool Youtube searchable and ad free player for teachers.

Now 2011!  The new School of TEFL, new video conferencing rooms, a new coursebook. Can’t wait! If I can keep getting up and hungry for what can be done – I’ll be happy. Here in Canada or anywhere.

Happy New Year to All!

See how the whole world searched through 2010 with Google’s Zeitgeist video.

The #1 Series in ELT

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number1 The #1 Series in ELT is now a handy ebook that you can share with others and view offline! I put this out a month ago, thinking that I could get members to pay $5 for it and support EFL Classroom 2.0. Only a couple people did. Oh well, if you don’t try, how do you know?

So now get it FREE . Share and distribute as you see fit – even giveaway on your own site – see the other downloads on the right too. Lots to help EFL teachers or any teacher for that matter. I’ll be adding a few more shortly. As to raising money to cover the costs for EFL Classroom 2.0 - I just sent my Teach / Learn textbook for typesetting/formatting and it’ll be ready in a few weeks. I think this time, teachers will buy this to support us – it will be well worth it. Something you can open up, print, use in class right away with any level of students except true beginners. Stay tuned!

Sen Teacher – using materials for the disabled.

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Sen Teacher is the bomb! The last few years I’ve been acquainting myself with special education and also finding that so many special ed. techniques/tools/methods really work well with language learning. Same with websites, they offer a plethora of resources for use in our classroom. Sen Teacher does too!

(Tar Heel Reader and Reading Resource are just two sites specific to special education that have great cross over to EFL/ELT. See this blog post for more info on this subject. Also see our Picture Sets, used by the learning and physically disabled but which are perfect for teaching English!)

Go here for lots of printables. Just print and go but you can also change the information and then print. Make sure to see the dice and the link cards. Also, the certificate maker and bubbles….many other things, including lots of free software. Make sure to share what you find here! Happy hunting, Sen Teacher is amazing!

New Teachers – Essential stuff on EFL 2.0

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I just finished a whirlwind 6 day week of workshops on technology and language teaching – given to mostly new teachers. I had a wonderful time and the energy of the teachers always renews me, no matter how tiring the 6 hour sessions a day truly are.

It got me thinking that I need to do a better job here – creating a directory of essential “go to” resources for new teachers. Would also benefit other teachers, new to the site. This page, on my old training site does this and I highly recommend it. However, it could disappear soon so I’ll list here what I think is great for new teachers/members on EFL Classroom 2.0 . (I’ll be building this so keep returning or bookmark! Most can be found through our very comprehensive site directory)

Please comment and add your own gems. What do you find “really” works?

Use our tag search! It really works and is a god send to find things. Plus many tips on the Number 1 blog series. Also, hit the tags on the side of this blog. You’ll get amazing posts about listening, writing, flashcards, using the board, teaching teens etc… all with resources to download!

This Blog: Authentic Materials / Coteaching / Listening / Using the board / Flashcards / Drawing / Student created content / Storybooks / Teaching Writing / speaking / The teenaged Learner / class design and decoration / Karaoke to teach

IDEAS and Lesson plans: Lessons in a Can / Lesson Plan Resources (14 pages) / Teaching Recipes

Helpers: Teacher Tools / Language Lab / Quizlet / Worksheets / Media Fire (see the activity folder in particular)

Games: PPT Games

Video: Top 100 Youtube videos + use our video directory – click the tags to get the videos you want! Download all the videos in our A/V player.

Reading and Stories: estory page / printable leveled readers for your students.

Young Learners: Elementary page / YL group / Kids Songs

Technology: Software page (download essential programs free, for your computer) / ELT and Tech (learn about the best technology for teaching languages)

Prof. Development. / Our TESOL Training modules / Main page / Videos

Get many links to other sites – all categorized, in our SOCIAL BOOKMARKING DIRECTORY

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