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"Journal Submission Guidelines NCTE publishes twelve professional journals, including at least one for each membership section. Volunteer editors ensure that the peer-reviewed content is of the highest quality and is relevant to the lives of NCTE members and subscribers. Because these journals are all published through different volunteer editors, the submission guidelines vary for each: * Classroom Notes Plus * College Composition and Communication * English Education * College English * English Journal * English Leadership Quarterly * Language Arts * Research in the Teaching of English * School Talk * Talking Points * Teaching English in the Two-Year College * Voices from the Middle"

Teaching Business English has become a very popular career option in recent times. Most industries like the IT and BPOs operating on an international level, require its' employees to communicate with co-workers and clients all over the world. Hence, they regularly recruit Business English teachers to train the employees.

""We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think.""

Glenda teaches us how to teach students to mimic one of the masters of prose-Jane Austen. Mimicry is often a great writing exercise for students who need to examine style.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has printable handbooks for many of Shakespeare's plays. "Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language."

"Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language.  "

Where English teachers meet to help each other

Teaching English is a very popular career option in today's globalized world. Those aspiring to take up a career teaching ESL (English as Second Language) must be fluent in English, with a sound educational background and must have completed a certified English teacher training course. There are plenty of online teacher training courses for those...

Great blog post by Tricia Buck about the impact of deciding to go paperless on her teaching of English

Correcting their mistakes is editing, and if that is what you enjoy you should have gotten into book publishing. We are teachers and our job is to teach students how to use the English language.

The New York Times' collection of resources for teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.

"Teaching Literature + Web 2.0 "

For beginning teachers who want to go over seas. This site help teacher to go to Japan or anywhere be prepared.

over 3000 resources for teaching english

Great introduction and resources for teaching Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

"The Three Stages Of Reading strategy involves teaching students to delve into text. The Before Reading stage provides a scaffold for new concepts and vocabulary, promotes engagement and provides a means for prediction. The second stage, During Reading, allows students to integrate the knowledge and information they bring to the text with 'new' information in the text. The last stage, After Reading, allows students to articulate and process their understanding of what they have read and to think critically about the validity of the text."

This is a perfect collection of English lessons and resources for most High School Level classes.  It has all the traditional assignments, stories, skills, terms, and samples to pull from.

Mike LoMonico shared this excerpt from "Old School" by Tobias Wolff which explains why English teachers are awesome.

A great collection of links on discussion activities for the English classroom.

Teacher Training Course Teachers training courses are very popular among teachers who crave to teach abroad and in their home countries. Online TESOL Course or TEFL course in distance is thus a perfect opportunity for second language English teachers. The international teaching certificate is what will help teachers getting teaching job abroad and in India.