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Written for native speaking students but I think it applies to ESL as well. It's easy as ESL teacher, especially teaching the lower levels, to think that students can't think critically because they don't have the language skills.

Looks at what skilled teachers think, say, and do to create successful classroom & learning experiences.

Useful, quick reference infographic with ways to develop critical thinking

Short list of usual approaches to add rigor (critical thinking) to all types of assignments

Fun wordless cute video. Student could describe the video in writing / speaking or whatever other creative activities you can think of doing with it.

Excellent ideas for helping students retain vocabulary. Some are content specific (i.e., scientific words) and yes, I think adult students are past coloring :-), but there are other options in here which would work with adult students.

This is one of the fastest, easiest approaches to exit slips I've ever seen, and definitely worth thinking about.

I love the reminders in here -- I think as teachers we all can use a reminder of really great practices that we don't always remember to use. But...I really hate the title. I'd prefer to call it "11 Really Great Reminders for Fantastic Teaching". :-)

This goes both ways, top to bottom and bottom to top. I was initially thinking of the sting that class evaluations can often have but then expanded that to "why is the sting going down more often than up?". There should be a system in place that voices both ways; I grow as a teacher through student feedback (often with an "ouch!" factor; I should grow in admin through the same system. Thoughts about a feedback loop that would be safe and useful? You can slip an anonymous note under my door for now... :-)

Very cool sight with videos and short lessons explaining various skills -- summarizing, inferring, etc. For native speakers but I think Level 5 & 6 would be fine with it. Thanks Joy!

grammar powerpoints from Azar. Highly recommended by Jaime and personally I think Azar does a great job of presenting grammar clearly. All free for download!

I survive using Azar!! Love it.

Students' own responses from their high school survey. The common thread is "hands on" and "material relates to their own lives". Think there are insights here for ESL students as well.

I love word clouds but am never quite sure how to use them effectively. There were some interesting ideas in here, especially the one about essay writing (#3, I think?)

This was very helpful! As a native speaker, I had to go back to basics to think about 'phrasal verbs' transitive and intransitive, multi-word verbs, etc. all the different terms... I think this could be used for various levels. Good explainer.

Ideas for getting students up and moving around while still working...3 hours is a long time to sit!

Ideas for getting students up and moving around while still working...3 hours is a long time to sit!

Really liked this extremely simple diagram about the difference between information and knowledge. It could be a good starting point for class discussion, especially if linked into reading (as a example of what students should be doing when they're reading)

A really nice listening site with animated, captioned true stories. For native speakers, but the animation and the captions help enormously with understanding the pictures.

Sundays at Roccos was a moving story for a cartoon about an immigrant family from Italy that makes it in the US only to (you have to see it for the rest). I think this is a high Level 3 and up listening material that will generate a lot of discussion from interesting and animated stories

Some different approaches using pictures to help teach inferencing skills

This series of drawings struck me as something that might be useful to spawn conversation. Some Drawings are more controversial than others, but several hit on topics that I think some classes are already discussing, especially the upper levels.