American English Webinars
Webinar
Resource Collection
The American English Webinar and Facebook Live sessions are hosted by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. These professional development sessions for English teachers around the globe address methodological topics that foster interactive, student-centered language instruction. Here you will find recordings from previous events that are 60-90 minutes long and include corresponding downloadable presentations and additional resources.
Resources In This Collection
This session shows how a story-retelling wheel can support creative, student-centered responses to reading.
Author:
Lottie Baker
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This webinar shows teachers how to use theater-based activities and student performances to build English language skills.
Author:
Danielle Capretti
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This webinar discusses the history, features, and submission guidelines for the well-known journal, English Teaching Forum.
Author:
Max Koller; Heather Benucci; Jennifer Hodgson; Tom Glass
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forum_webinar.pdf
pdf6.39mb
This session examines supportive instructional options, such as the inclusive classroom, universal design for learning, scaffolding, and peer-assisted learning strategies.
Author:
Jimalee Sowell
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This session examines how playing board games can enable ELLs of all ages to develop authentic language skills while also practicing collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity!
Author:
Jennifer Borch
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This webinar introduces teachers to the Activate resource, demonstrates classroom management techniques for playing games in the classroom, and offers tips on how teachers can create their own games that match their curriculum objectives.
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Jennifer Hodgson & Kevin McCaughey
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This follow-up webinar shares classroom-management techniques and practical ways to adapt Activate games to curriculum goals.
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Jennifer Hodgson & Kevin McCaughey
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activate_for_ae.pdf
pdf3.86mb
This session explores several motivating speaking-focused activities that can be easily modified for different levels, student interests, and teaching contexts.
Author:
Lynn W. Zimmerman
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This webinar teaches useful techniques to successfully adapt materials for your classroom.
Author:
Roger Cohen; Russell Barczyk
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39_2_2_darian.pdf
pdf248.48kb
webinar_15.2_-_slides_for_ae.pdf
pdf2.18mb
This session addresses the challenge of dealing with large classes of students with mixed abilities.
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Presenter: Susan Iannuzzi
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teachers_corner.pdf
pdf86.46kb
This session shares ways to dramatize grammar rules to make them memorable and techniques for helping students discover grammar as they explore popular stories.
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Presenter: Christopher Stillwell
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50_3_2_jones_0_0.pdf
pdf137.72kb
etf_52_2_12-19_and_35_0.pdf
pdf124.41kb
This session explores the limitations of the traditional classroom debate format and introduces several alternatives ELT educators can use to cultivate the 21st-century skills their students need to discuss challenging topics.
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Stephanie Owens Upadhyay
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This session presents practical classroom routines that strengthen student agency, participation, and teacher planning.
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Presenter: Emily Tichich
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classroom_management_-_tc.pdf
pdf692.66kb
promoting_learner_engagement_-_tc.pdf
pdf493.51kb
This session shares fun, practical ideas for using and adapting free American English resources to teach grammar topics in a variety of ELT contexts.
Author:
Ellana Black
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This session presents student-voice strategies that teachers can adapt to their learners, contexts, and teaching styles.
Author:
Lindsay Lyons
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AE Live 9.4 Student Voice.pdf
pdf2.22mb
This webinar offers practical ways to use comics and graphic novels to enliven English language instruction.
Author:
John Kotnarowski
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This webinar demonstrates how works of art and museum resources can support English language development.
Author:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Education Department
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art_for_all.pdf
pdf5.13mb
metropolitan_museum_of_art_resources.pdf
pdf404.65kb
This session shows how portfolios and self-assessments can motivate learners and document progress on meaningful tasks.
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Nina Kang
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This session shows how portfolios and self-assessments can motivate learners and document progress on meaningful tasks.
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Nina Kang
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forum_493_0.pdf
pdf228.67kb
forum_502_0.pdf
pdf190.98kb
This session presents an example project in which students created television-style newscasts about community issues; participants consider how to overcome challenges associated with PBL and how to develop meaningful project ideas for their own teaching contexts.
Author:
Jeremy Beal
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This webinar explores why critical thinking matters in language learning and how teachers can cultivate it in the EFL classroom.
Author:
Heather Benucci
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09-47-1-c.pdf
pdf603.56kb
06-44-1-d.pdf
pdf255.42kb
05-43-3-b.pdf
pdf402.19kb
etf_55_1_p45-48.pdf
pdf147.12kb
This session explores how to create authentic, communicative learning experiences when teaching English verb tenses; exciting approaches incorporating realia, role plays, group projects, and multisensory activities will be demonstrated.
Author:
Amanda Hillard
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This webinar demonstrates techniques that assist in creating effective cooperative and communicative classrooms, especially in classes of 20 students or more.
Author:
Gena Rhoades
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This webinar shares research-based teaching strategies to help students develop intercultural communicative competence while sustaining their own cultural heritage.
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Presenter: Tabitha Kidwell
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This webinar examines how English changes over time and what educators need to know to keep their teaching current.
Author:
Kevin McCaughey
This session provides ideas and strategies for structuring pair and group work to maximize student-to-student engagement, which can be especially important in contexts offering limited opportunities for out-of-class English practice.
Author:
John Kotnarowski
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10-48-1-d_0.pdf
pdf138.69kb
This webinar introduces accessible digital-learning tools and ideas for English teachers at any level of technology experience.
Author:
Jeff Kuhn
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teachers_corner_byod_0.pdf
pdf590.93kb
This session explores climate change vocabulary and vocabulary teaching tips, shares activity ideas, and introduces skills that will help learners analyze and communicate about climate change facts versus opinions.
Author:
Sheila Mullooly
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This webinar introduces co-teaching models and practical strategies for building successful instructional partnerships.
Author:
Amy Hanna
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activate_games_for_learning_american_english.pdf
pdf1021.51kb
board_games_template.pdf
pdf31.64kb
dice_template_0.pdf
pdf149.04kb
This session presents lively grammar games that build young learners’ accuracy and speaking confidence.
Author:
Wendy Coulson
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This webinar explores teaching grammar from a meaning-based perspective.
Author:
Lottie Baker
This session explores how connecting and conversing with peers can offer teachers great opportunities for professional growth.
Author:
Chris Stillwell
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10-48-1-b_0.pdf
pdf121.27kb
background_july_final_0.pdf
pdf177.16kb
This session offers teaching techniques to situate language learning within local, environmental settings and demonstrates how to use authentic materials to connect local to global ecological concerns for learners of all ages and proficiency levels.
Author:
Susan Huss-Lederman and Danielle Sclafani
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This session explains how to successfully foster relationships among learners to create a sense of purpose and belonging in the classroom, resulting in greater student participation and rapport.
Author:
Mari Bodensteiner
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This session shows how to adapt materials and activities to engage learners at different proficiency levels.
Author:
Kitty Purgason
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multi-level_tc_-_part_1.pdf
pdf79.53kb
multi-level_tc_-_part_2.pdf
pdf86.46kb
This webinar shares practical strategies for creating, sustaining, and encouraging participation in English language clubs.
Author:
Kathleen Malu and Bryce Smedley
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This session shows how creating comics can strengthen learners’ language, communication, and critical thinking skills.
Author:
Dan Ryder
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This session explored strategies for building community in the online English language classroom.
Author:
Heather Gaddis
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AE Live 10.2 - Ning.pdf
pdf1.82mb
This webinar will explore strategies to help your students engage more effectively with their business counterparts from all over the world.
Author:
Lisa Mann
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Webinar7.6_Ning.pdf
pdf4.15mb
This session examines how we can share our own unique stories in a dialogue with others using an engaging method which gives value to ourselves, while also celebrating the differences of everyone involved.
Author:
Matthew Jellick
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This session explores five core principles for planning teacher professional development based on transformative adult learning theory.
Author:
Laura Baecher
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etf_07-45-1-d.pdf
pdf513.12kb
etf_52_2_28-35_0.pdf
pdf567.92kb
This session explores key principles associated with communicative grammar instruction.
Author:
Nancy Ackles
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This session explores instructional coaching techniques that help educators develop leadership skills and support English language teaching.
Author:
Michelle Benegas and Amy Stolpestad
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This webinar identifies key vocabulary and grammatical structures and models classroom approaches for introducing and practicing them in critical thinking exercises.
Author:
Bruce Rubin
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This session explores equitable ways to differentiate online English instruction for learners with varied needs and abilities.
Author:
Chloe Bellows
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This session aims to clarify the multiskill “digital literacies” construct and explore how and why these skills can be integrated into English language instruction.
Author:
Heather Benucci
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Introduces consciousness-raising task (CR tasks), which encourage students to notice characteristics and patterns related to form, meaning, and/or use while actively exploring the target grammar feature.
Author:
Heather Benucci
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This session shares fun, confidence-building, evidence-based drama techniques that can be applied in any EFL classroom setting!
Author:
Deric McNish and Carmela Romano Gillette
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This session reviews ways to check answers and share responses in a variety of ways to keep students focused and engaged in their learning.
Author:
Stephanie Owens
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This session explores options for promoting student-to-student interaction in the EFL classroom through a variety of exciting, easy-to-adapt games and activities.
Author:
Dieter Bruhn
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How to engage students and help them develop the skills needed to make them better readers.
Author:
Serena Chu-Mraz
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This session presents effective assessment practices for both synchronous and asynchronous online English learning.
Author:
Kendra Staley
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This session explores strategies for more accurate and efficient e-reading; these approaches address reading skills such as fluency, synthesis, source tracking, and more!
Author:
Nicole Brun-Mercer
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This session aims to help you enrich classroom time by examining how to incorporate the practice of real language into grammar lessons.
Author:
Spenser Lemaich
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This session explores thought-provoking techniques for creating engaging and interactive lesson plans when working with large, multi-level classes.
Author:
Dieter Bruhn
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This session encourages insight into how incorporating social media platforms in the classroom makes narrative writing authentic, attainable, and enjoyable for students.
Author:
Jennifer Borch
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etf_52_2_28-35_1.pdf
pdf567.92kb
07-45-1-d_0.pdf
pdf513.12kb
This session introduces participants to the concept of Service Learning as a teaching strategy that promotes meaningful experiential learning through community service and reflective classroom activities.
Author:
Annaliese Hausler-Akpovi
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etf_55_3_1.pdf
pdf177.97kb
This webinar explores activities that help students ask key questions about the messages found in news and social media.
Author:
Joe McVeigh
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This session demonstrates how weaving SEL competencies into lesson plans gets students using core cognitive skills to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention in the EFL classroom.
Author:
April Minerich
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This session explores how teachers can strengthen their own motivation and foster greater motivation among English learners.
Author:
Neil J Anderson
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04-42-1-g_0.pdf
pdf335.56kb
09-47-3-f_0.pdf
pdf168.48kb
This session uses oral histories to help learners explore generational culture while developing English communication skills.
Author:
Rhonda Petree
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tessema_-_forum__0.pdf
pdf115.44kb
banegas_-_forum.pdf
pdf648.06kb
This session explores formative assessment as an essential element of student-centered classrooms.
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Tabitha Kidwell
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This session introduces key theories and practices in language teaching, and participants will improve their understanding of language teaching methods and principles.
Author:
Sarah Arva Grosik
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etf_09-47-4-b_0.pdf
pdf253.87kb
49_3_2_horn_0.pdf
pdf228.67kb
This session introduces key theories and practices in language teaching, and participants will improve their understanding of language teaching methods and principles.
Author:
Sarah Arva Grosik
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etf_09-47-4-b_1.pdf
pdf253.87kb
49_3_2_horn_1.pdf
pdf228.67kb
This session shares classroom-ready activities that can be adapted to encourage critical thinking in reading lessons for students of varying ages and proficiency levels.
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Jeremy Beal
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This webinar argues that clear organization is the most important feature of effective academic writing.
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John Kotnarowski
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This webinar examines games that motivate students to learn from and engage in grammar activities.
Author:
Lauren Whitaker and Kate Bain
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5.1_presentation_slides_0.pdf
pdf2.11mb
group_grammar.pdf
pdf249.88kb
climbing_grammar_mountain.pdf
pdf123.67kb
This session discussed characteristics of strong projects in STEAM courses for students at different proficiency levels and guided participants in analyzing sample projects to identify their language features and completion requirements.
Author:
Catherine DiFelice Box & Anne Pomerantz
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This webinar explains how to develop service learning activities in the classroom.
Author:
Clark Erwin-Billones
This session introduces active mobile-language-learning activities that can be used without an internet connection.
Author:
Shelly Sanchez Terrell
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This webinar introduces practical approaches to content-based language instruction for the English classroom.
Author:
Joe McVeigh
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forum_493.pdf
pdf228.67kb
forum_502.pdf
pdf190.98kb
This session discusses how to prepare for and conduct peer assessment during PBL so that learners can provide constructive, validating, and encouraging feedback to their classmates.
Author:
Juli Sarris
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etf_56_4_16-23_0.pdf
pdf150.91kb
meaningful_assessments_week_4_0_0.pdf
pdf342.3kb
This webinar shows how Universal Design for Learning can foster creativity, autonomy, and student motivation.
Author:
Rosa Dene David
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This session discussed benefits of increasing student oral language use in virtual environments, and explored routines, activities, and tools that gave students a voice in their online classrooms.
Author:
Christine Esche
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ae_live_10.4_-_final_slides.pdf
pdf2.4mb
This session addresses an integrated approach to teaching speaking, reading, listening, writing, and grammar skills.
Author:
Dieter Bruhn
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etf_56_2_pg30-33_0.pdf
pdf304.85kb
07-45-1-b_0.pdf
pdf417.04kb
This webinar introduces content-based pronunciation activities that could be used in a reading, writing, or grammar course.
Author:
Char Heitman
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This session demonstrates how oral language routines can provide a simple, flexible way to support students at any age or level as they learn to communicate effectively about technical, mathematical, and scientific ideas.
Author:
Amanda Fox
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This webinar demonstrates how to facilitate Reader's Theater and how to use Reader's Theater as an enriching and productive English language learning activity.
Author:
Karen de Caballero
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During this session, Regional English Language Officer Kevin McCaughey shares his approach to a dynamic classroom space: The Movable Class.
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Kevin McCaughey
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This webinar stresses the importance of incorporating learner training into the English language learning curriculum.
Author:
Maggie Steingraeber
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forum_article_-_clive_lovelock.pdf
pdf445.37kb
forum_article_-_veronika_moiseenko.pdf
pdf179.91kb
This webinar will demonstrate how teachers can use one theme in American culture and society, Baseball, to give learners a toolkit for deciphering and using messages that contain a deep cultural context, no matter their source.
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John Mark King; Whitney Mirts
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tumi_wrestling.mp3
mp32.78mb
yemeni_interview.mp3
mp3747.37kb
This webinar explores how audiobooks and classic American literature can support English language teaching.
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Jennifer Hodgson
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This webinar discusses ways to increase student motivation and achievement through the use of culturally relevant teaching techniques.
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Tabitha Kidwell
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This webinar connects grammar and vocabulary instruction with critical thinking to create more meaningful language learning.
Author:
Richard Kahn
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This webinar demonstrates how to spark students’ intrinsic motivation in the English language classroom.
Author:
Amy Rich
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This session presents engaging pre-reading activities that prepare English learners to understand and enjoy texts.
Author:
Ami Christensen
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This session examines gamification in face-to-face and online classes and explores ways to include gamification elements in ELT instruction.
Author:
Deborah Healey
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This session defines classroom rules, routines, and rewards in the English language classroom, their role in well-managed classes, and how their creation and effective use leads to learner engagement.
Author:
Sara Denne-Bolton and Lisa Morgan
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This webinar discusses how multi-modal writing uses more than just words to communicate–it encourages students to use audio, video, photographs, and drawings to supplement their writing in meaningful ways.
Author:
Maggie Sokolik
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In this webinar, we will first examine the needs assessment process by reviewing several methods, techniques, and options for gathering data about student needs.
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Joe McVeigh
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01-39-3-d_0.pdf
pdf278.28kb
02_etf_53-3_2_butler_heslup_kurth_0.pdf
pdf246.88kb
activity_2_0.pdf
pdf92.03kb
This webinar discusses how we can become more connected to our colleagues, both near and far.
Author:
Amy Pascussi
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15.5_pre-recording.pdf
pdf1mb
This session shows how a digital-newspaper project can help learners develop and share their voices in English.
Author:
Ami Christensen
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This session shares engaging and dynamic grammar practice ideas that incorporate personally relevant student content.
Author:
Stephanie Owens Upadhyay
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This webinar explores ways to teach English language and culture through O. Henry’s short stories.
Author:
Katie Ryan
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learning_english_with_o_henry.pdf
pdf8.18mb
This session demonstrates how to create strong beginnings and endings during language lessons to help teachers meet mixed-level student needs as well as their curriculum requirements.
Author:
Richard Silberg
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This webinar shares active, communicative ways to introduce and practice grammar in the English classroom.
Author:
Vicky Holdridge
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out_of_your_seat_grammar.pdf
pdf3.61mb
This webinar shows how mobile photography can inspire meaningful language practice in the English classroom.
Author:
Crystal Bock Thiessen
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5.6_presentation_slides.pdf
pdf2.97mb
lottie_baker_-_forum_article_0.pdf
pdf240.89kb
This session shares creative tips for how to plan for small group instruction, practice routines with students, and monitor the whole class while working with small groups of students.
Author:
Adrienne Johnson
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june_week_2_final_2.pdf
pdf79.53kb
june_week_3_final_1.pdf
pdf86.46kb
This session demonstrates how including students’ first language (L1) in the ELT classroom offers the potential for innovative and nuanced communication and understanding in both students’ L1 and L2 and shows activities that can be adapted for students of all ages and levels.
Author:
Chris Hastings
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03-41-4-e_0.pdf
pdf97.41kb
This webinar explores an alternative solution to the challenge of providing students enough speaking and listening time in the class.
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Jeff Kuhn
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1.2_presentation_slides.pdf
pdf6.37mb
teachers_corner_audacity.pdf
pdf302.97kb
This webinar will introduce activities to develop students' listening skills in all of these areas; these activities can make your listening instruction both easier and more effective.
Author:
Beth Sheppard
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07-45-3-f.pdf
pdf408.57kb
This session helps teachers identify and strengthen critical-thinking opportunities in English language materials and lessons.
Author:
Leslie Opp-Beckman
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etf_42-3_0.pdf
pdf372.61kb
This webinar focuses on using digital storytelling techniques as an effective way to promote engagement.
Author:
Eric Wenninger
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This session explores Tasked-Based Language Teaching by introducing the four criteria of tasks, presenting task types, and sharing examples of successful classroom tasks.
Author:
Linh Phung
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This session explores the six elements of the ACTIVE reading framework, designed to systematically enhance reading skills in the EFL classroom.
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Neil J. Anderson
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This webinar demonstrates how proverbs and other short texts can support engaging language and culture activities.
Author:
Kevin McCaughey
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This session helps participants reflect on and share the different types of EFL group work activities they use as well as the methods they use to create small groups.
Author:
Kim Carroll
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topic_2_-_creating_groups-part_1_final_0.pdf
pdf114.61kb
topic_3_-_creating_groups-part_2_final_0.pdf
pdf102.02kb
10-48-1-d_1.pdf
pdf138.69kb
This session examines how environmental education can be integrated in ELT, explores TESOL educators’ readiness to teach this topic, and shares strategies to help students identify meaningful local environmental issues.
Author:
Melissa Hauke
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This session identifies challenges faced during project-based learning (PBL) and shares scaffolding-based strategies to overcome them.
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Tabitha Kidwell
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This session introduces classroom-ready music resources that make English language practice engaging and accessible.
Author:
Katrina Schmidt
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This session shares a new resource you can find on the American English website—diverse, music-based instructional materials that include free, downloadable audio tracks, videos, and classroom-ready activities.
Author:
Katrina Schmidt
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etf_56_1_pg14-21_0.pdf
pdf223.76kb
This session shares a dynamic way to get students out of their seats—in both virtual and face-to-face settings—as they collaborate and communicate with classmates during a reading race that involves a variety of texts.
Author:
Heather Benucci and Kevin McCaughey
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This session engages participants in a rich dialogue about ways that social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies can help ELLs.
Author:
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera and Gilda Martínez-Alba
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This session shares how experiential STEAM-related instruction can develop students’ 21st-century skills while they use the target language and have fun!
Author:
Eileen Finn
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etf_59_2_pg02-09_1.pdf
pdf169.88kb
july_teachers_corner__intro_stem_final_1.pdf
pdf178.41kb
This webinar presents thought-provoking climate change activities and materials for the English classroom.
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Kevin McCaughey; Eve Smith
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50_2_3_hauschild-et-al.pdf
pdf190.98kb
strange_weather-final-ning.pdf
pdf2.9mb
walking.mp3
mp3750.94kb
refuse_the_bag.mp3
mp31.41mb
This session examines how teachers can thoughtfully select and apply corrective feedback techniques that can help students produce more accurate language output.
Author:
Juli Sarris
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This session presents practical strategies for building community and expanding learning opportunities in large English classes.
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Presenter: Christopher Stillwell
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teachers_corner_-_june_.pdf
pdf253.26kb
managing_large_classes_module_2006.pdf
pdf187.47kb
english_teaching_forum_463.pdf
pdf447.65kb
This webinar examines classroom management and student-centered classrooms before discussing five adaptable forms participants can use to manage activities in their own classrooms.
Author:
Catherine Thomas
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This session focuses on activities that participants can use in teaching speaking in multi-level classes with students of all ages.
Author:
Julie Vorholt
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etf_52_3_30-37_0.pdf
pdf195.59kb
tc_week_2_activity.pdf
pdf340.9kb
This session explores several interactive, ready-to-use activities designed to motivate learners enrolled in lecture-style classes; these approaches also enable the instructor to gather crucial information about their students’ progress and understanding of the material.
Author:
Kim Chilmonik
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This webinar explores strategies for finding and using visual resources to tell a story.
Author:
Ashley Naranjo; Briana Zavadil White; Naomi Coquillon
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This session shares engaging strategies for effectively incorporating authentic target language in EFL lessons: in classroom routines, in language practice, as well as in assessments of speaking gains.
Author:
Jane Borisova
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This session examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) creates opportunities for students to use and develop language skills in the course of authentic communication.
Author:
Jamila Barton
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etf_09-47-2-e.pdf
pdf260.78kb
etf_09-47-4-b.pdf
pdf253.87kb
This session shares two reading activities that involve station-based learning and authentic materials; these tasks promote a range of reading skills while maximizing learner engagement, critical thinking, and learner autonomy!
Author:
Mina Gavell
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etf_59_2_pg02-09_1_0.pdf
pdf169.88kb
june_week_2_final_1.pdf
pdf79.53kb
This webinar examines Teacher Talk Time, Teacher Wait Time, and effective presentation habits for educators.
Author:
Kevin McCaughey
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This webinar will explore how teachers can turn this stressful situation into a positive professional development opportunity by engaging in collaborative peer observations.
Author:
Heather Benucci
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webinar_14.1_re-recording_0.pdf
pdf10.05mb
peer_observation_handout.pdf
pdf82kb
This webinar shows how communities of practice help teachers collaborate, reflect, and grow professionally.
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Mari Bodensteiner
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This session explores the benefits and challenges of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and will share practical ideas for how to prepare students for careers in hospitality and tourism.
Author:
Serena Chu-Mraz
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03-41-2-g_0.pdf
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confidence_at_work_quiz.docx
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A webinar to complement The Color Vowel Chart, a pronunciation tool for teaching and learning English.
Author:
Shirley Thompson; Karen Taylor
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This webinar presents practical strategies for correcting oral errors and writing effective classroom assessments.
Author:
Dawn Bikowski
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error_correction_and_assessment.pdf
pdf1.38mb
03-41-1-l_0.pdf
pdf201.68kb
This session defines what a task is and why tasks matter for language teachers and learners.
Author:
Joy Egbert
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This session provides techniques for how to design and adapt Running Dictations for grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing practice that students will be sure to enjoy!
Author:
Jacqueline Peterson
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This webinar explores ways to enhance student learning through online activities, specifically by modeling one of the latest trends in education today: The Flipped Classroom.
Author:
Andrew Screen
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This session introduces the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) framework for building readers’ confidence in locating information in a text and turning to themselves to answer questions that require thinking beyond the text.
Author:
Spencer Salas
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the-open-boat_0.pdf
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In this webinar, we discuss theories and practical strategies regarding the use of humor and language play in the English language classroom.
Author:
Dave Chiesa and Stephen Skalicky
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ae_4.1_presentation_slides.pdf
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forum_teaching_english_using_puns.pdf
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This session defines and explores the STAIR Framework, a four-part instructional design approach that builds dynamic student interaction into online or in-class activities.
Author:
Stephanie Upadhyay
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This session introduced several communicative EFL activities for instructional sessions conducted via video-based online meeting software.
Author:
Lea Gabay and Kelly Vassar
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ae_live_10.3_-_ning.pdf
pdf1.97mb
This webinar presents subtle techniques for correcting grammar during speaking tasks without interrupting communication.
Author:
Elizabeth Hepford
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This session introduces two frameworks for teaching culture and critical thinking through language-learning activities.
Author:
Andy Noonan
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This session explores the importance of leveraging our students' cultural backgrounds in the ELT classroom as well as the value that social and emotional learning (SEL) has on students’ academic and lifelong success.
Author:
L. Erika Saito
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This webinar considers how context, content, and tone can help make business-related draft writing processes more effective and enjoyable for both writers and readers.
Author:
Ben Taylor
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This session demonstrates how to engage learners in online environments by transforming traditional classroom tools.
Author:
Shane Dixon
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AE Live 10.1 - Ning.pdf
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This webinar clarifies key conventions of American English academic writing and how to teach them effectively.
Author:
Heather Benucci & Kelli Odhuu
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49_2_2_millar_0.pdf
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49_2_4_boas_0.pdf
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This interactive webinar will focus on maximizing vocabulary acquisition for English learners with a focus on easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities based on brain-based learning and critical thinking.
Author:
Anne Walker
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This webinar demonstrates the universality of comics for any language classroom, showing how multi-skill comic activities can be used with students of all ages and ability levels.
Author:
James Whiting
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06-44-1-f.pdf
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comicsinlangclassroom-ning.pdf
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This webinar will examine cultural assumptions about the definition of plagiarism and how external sources should be used in academic writing.
Author:
Heather Benucci
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49_2_3_mott-smith_0.pdf
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This session demonstrates engaging classroom games that strengthen learners’ vocabulary and grammar skills.
Author:
Kate Bain
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presentation_slides.pdf
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activate_games.pdf
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This session introduces the graphic organizer as a tool to help students understand difficult concepts and produce related, meaningful academic English.
Author:
Eric Wenninger
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This webinar explores several new warm-up activities and grouping strategies.
Author:
Rebecca Wilner
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This session introduces visible thinking routines that can enrich communicative dynamics, stimulate productive engagement, and foster insightful expression–a valuable addition to any language teacher’s instructional toolbox!
Author:
Stephanie Bolaños
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This webinar demonstrates how to increase learner engagement in the English language classroom by incorporating visual literacy skills.
Author:
Katie Subra
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This webinar shows how Voice of America resources can bring current events into the English language classroom.
Author:
Philip Dierking
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5.3_webinar_slides.pdf
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forum_current_events.pdf
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This webinar explores why listening sometimes gets short shrift in English classes and provides tips for bringing fun, low-preparation listening tasks to your lessons.
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Kevin McCoughey
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16.1_pre-recording_pdf.pdf
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forum_article_-_mccaughey_-_listening.pdf
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beatles_crossword__down_1.mp3
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earthday_text.mp3
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This session offers practical ways to make online English learning more active, physical, and engaging beyond the screen.
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Anna Ciriani-Dean
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This webinar "Teaching with Jazz Chants" demonstrates how to use Jazz Chants in the classroom. Jazz Chants are a unique way to teach stress and intonation in English. For this webinar, you will find an online webinar recording and the downloadable presentation. View this webinar
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Shirley Thompson
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teaching_with_jazz_chants_0.pdf
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Music is one of the most powerful and engaging tools for teaching listening and pronunciation. This session highlights how popular American songs can help learners notice and practice key features of natural speech, including contractions, reductions, and rhythm. Together, we will examine short, classroom-ready song excerpts that feature authentic American English speech and discover simple listening and pronunciation activities suitable for a wide range of contexts. By the end of the webinar, participants will have a toolkit of practical strategies and adaptable ideas for using music to build
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AE Live 24.1_WRC.pdf
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AE Live 24.1_WRC.pptx
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This webinar, “Web 2.0 Tools: Using Free and Open Educational Resources to Impact Learning Locally and Globally,” explores some of the most useful online resources for educators with a focus on open education resources (OER).
Author:
Melanie Brooks
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This webinar, Tips And Tools To Strengthen Participation and Engagement In Online Learning Contexts, begins with a general overview of different course delivery formats including MOOCs, blended or hybrid courses, and courses run fully online.
Author:
Andy Halvorsen & Jennifer Rice
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This webinar, “Using Songs to Teach English” explores the myriad of ways songs and music can help create a classroom that is happy, interactive, and intellectually challenging. The presenter will introduce some effective techniques for incorporating music and song in the EFL and ESL classroom.
Author:
Kristin Lems
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Explore four practical strategies for engaging young English learners through community, choice, creativity, and classroom routines.
Author:
Lauren Whitaker
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Explore a project-based approach that combines social media and community service to build students’ language and 21st-century skills.
Author:
Eve Smith
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Explore practical tools and strategies for sharing teaching knowledge, materials, and best practices across local and global professional communities.
Author:
Ryan Brux
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Explore strategies for building cultural and linguistic awareness so learners can communicate more successfully across cultures.
Author:
Melissa A. Mendelson
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Explore five practical steps for teaching academic writing, including discovery activities, peer review, model texts, purposeful reading, and effective rubrics.
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Dawn Bikowski
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