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!

Thanks Joy! Great website for beginning students -- all skills but free pronunciation practice for English specific problem areas

70 Practical Things Every Teacher Should Know Yup, totally. Including my personal favorite "how to wash their hands correctly". :-)

Ideas on how to teach English for Engineering

Really short, cute, wordless videos which could be used in a multitude of ways

Very short funny video students can watch and describe

Not particularly revolutionary but in all the years I've taught 3rd level conditionals I've never thought of framing them in this way...could be a lot of fun and maybe more relevant

Short video of a cat solving a puzzle to get his dinner. Could be used for teaching process writing.

Funny video students can watch and describe

Students can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.

Some different approaches using pictures to help teach inferencing skills

Some very accessible writing prompts for lower level students. Can download a free PDF of the books.

Enjoy!

Some different ideas in here about keeping students moving and engaged. A few I haven't tried but will for my fall oral communications class. Share feedback please if you try any of them!

Hi, this Ted video is excellent and relates perfectly to the Pathways 4 Chapter 2 L/S part on Chernobyl. Monica

Different ways to create student groups to meet various needs.

Different ways to create student groups to meet various needs.

For native speakers but some fun games (go under language arts) to practice sentence structure, commas, parts of speech, etc. Probably best for Levels 4-6

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... :-)

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

Some of these would have to be modified for ESL students and some are totally out there (I'm going to try #4, "if you're bored, tell me why" , but rephrased "Are you bored? Tell my why and what would make it more interesting" -- can't wait to see the answers)