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Thanks Michael for this great website. I think it's great. You can find any topic.

This is site created online by Ventesolers. VenTESOL is the Venezuelan brach of TESOL. Here we can keep updated.

This platform was designed for students from 1st to 9th grade for public education in Costa Rica.Dr. Allen Quesada from the University of Costa Rica is the Head Director and Coordinator of design, production, and creation of CyberL@b. CyberL@b is been piloted in Costa Rican schools at this moment. The content of CyberL@b supports the syllabus of Costa Rican Ministry of Education.

I use ideas from this website when my classes seem a bit squirmy and need to use up some energy to better help them concentrate!

This is a collection of listening practice materials designed for ESL learners. It is part of the ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Website (http://www.rong-chang.com/), the best ESL Web directory.

I really like to use this activity in my classroom because it helps students to listen to native people talking about any topic related with the material seeing in class, and it can help to reinforce some vocabulary, not just by listening but also practicing it.

Great, I going to put it into practice!

I like to use this site for teaching kids about reading charts and graphs; side benefit is making them more aware of the world they live in.

This page provides a lot of activities you can use in the classroom to teach the importance of having a job in this world and the value every occupation has. There you can find occupations described by pictures and small sentences to help students understand in a simple way. Also students mainly children have the opportunity to create different towns and fire trucks buy using boxes and their creativity.

Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization dedicated to building houses for the most needed.  It is present in 17 countries in Latin America and the caribbean.  Most of the houses are built by volunteers and families that have been benefited with houses.  This webapage can be used to present the topic of Human rights, solidarity, and how every person has the right to live in their own home.  It can also foster volunteer work in the community by contacting a local office in your country.

I have a cousin who contributes to this group and I often recommend articles to other teachers from the site. I find that it can help teachers who have gotten stuck in a rut to break out of it. Most of the perspective are a bit liberal for Salem, OR but they still help colleagues look at issues in a new way.

We have plenty to read in the field of education, however, reading for pleasure has lots of benefits for non-native speakers teachers and students. This is my favorite website to find all sorts of books to read for free!

Population Diversity and Human Rights Objectives Students will understand the following:1. Nations try to influence the actions of other nations by employing economic sanctions.2. Citizens of a nation may disagree on the morality and effectiveness of economic sanctions.Materials For this lesson, you will need:* Computer with Internet access* Documents, books, articles, and editorials concerning U.S. economic sanctions currently in place against other nations* Index cards for note taking

Reading levels of many children's books

Although this is a "store" of quizzes for many children's books, I primarily use it when determining a book's reading level for students. Many books are in this database. It is helpful when setting up a library for elementary students, but also for a parent who is curious about a book their child may be reading...is it appropriate? too hard? too easy? When you search for a title, and it is in the database, you are given its reading level.

This an interesting file related to people with learning desabilities and the rights they have and the way they should be treated in any society. We have to remember that they are human being like any other person with the same rights and opportunities

An interesting file related to the rights of people with learning desabilities.

This website help us as teachers to understand the rights of inmigrants when learning English as a second language because they have to be taught in a different way, due to their background and as English is not a first language for them. This article is related with job too, because inmigrants go to other places to learn a new language like English and have the opportunity to work in those places.

In this site you can find a lot of activities to do with students about "Environment", for instance; vocabulary related to environment, lesson plans, video segment with different activities; listening; projects.

Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, handouts, PowerPoints, and more! Exercises Handouts Presentations Rules

Ismael - I will be using links to this site for our lesson plan. Thanks. JC

Total Instructional Alignment is a must-have resource for any educator envisioning ever higher levels of student success. This guide for teachers and administrators.

There are many things that are able to be accomplished throughout the development of the new techniques. For example how to keep in touch with our students and to program different activities in a course. All of this encourages students to never stop practicing what is definitely a process. If they feel the communication doesn´t stop, they feel happy and free to produce more and more each time.

This the site I was talking about in our ning, go ahead, try it. Blessings