Resource Description: Teaching EFL can be challenging when student engagement is lacking due to high teacher talk, scripted curriculum, or lack of interest. Fortunately, cooperative learning structures give students the engagement they desire while making the classroom student-centered and exciting. 

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Kagan cooperative learning can give you better management, engagement and stronger students who are confident in speaking, writing, listening and reading in English. I have used it with primary, secondary and adult learners and have found that it consistently supports students academic achievement as well as social emotional learning. 

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Resource Description: A diverse panel of TESOL experts, Peter Sakura, Judy Sharkey, Carolyn Lethaby, and Raichle Farrelly, will share international and US-based research and practice to address the integration of social justice topics into pre-service and in-service teacher education. Topics include community-based pedagogies, social justice during the pre-service practicum experience, infusing social justice in teacher preparation for interrupted formal education and refugee-background students, and dispelling gender myths during teacher preparation.

Resource Type: Virtual Seminars

Resource Description: Students are required to read and act out a Chinese history story “Kong Rong Gave Away Bigger Pears”. They are able to learn sharing is a joy from this story. What is more, they are required to figure out the usage of to-infinitive as subject in some simple sentences. They will also make some sentences with to-infinitive as subject through a small game and a story re-telling activity.

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Resource Description: Knowing when to use the Past Perfect tense instead of Past Simple in a narrative can be confusing for students. This video shows a nice trick to ​getting it right.

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This resource is meant to enable teachers to give a 50 minutes session on effective presentation skills for ESL students using cloud voting systems and audio response systems.

The students will work in groups later to create a group presentation and present together.

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Resource Description: YouTube video describing a lesson plan for future tense.

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Resource Description: An online interactive video-based lesson uploaded to TEDEd platform.

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Resource Description: Reported Speech, or Indirect Speech, isn't the same as Direct speech.  Students need to learn how to go from one to the other.  To make it easier for them, here is a video featuring 3 steps to make that change.

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Resource Description: Students are required to learn some basic knowledge of the Solar system and usage of ordinal number with certain sentence structures. Students will know the basic characteristics of the Eight Planets, such as size, color and the order of orbits by which planets circle around the Sun, through collecting information from reading materials, video clip and exchanging views with classmates. 

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Resource Description: One of the weaknesses of many common “diversity” frameworks in the United States is that they are built around vague notions of “culture” rather than strong commitments to equity. The result is a network of equity initiatives that are no real threat to inequity. In this session I will discuss the equity literacy framework — a framework for strengthening educators literacy related to equity. Its key principle is that there is no path to equity that does not involve a direct confrontation with inequity. The presenter will discuss what equity work looks like when it is really designed to be a threat to the existence of inequity.

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Resource Description: Swap meet is a language activity to practice the recognition of subjects and predicates.

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Resource Description: 6 March 2018

Presenters: Dr. Shannon Sauro, Malmö University, and Dr. Volker Hegelheimer, Iowa State University

Moderator: Dr. Christel Broady, Georgetown College 

Coordinators: Christel Broady (CALL-IS), Olga Griswold (ALIS),  Kathryn Howard (ALIS), and Claudio Fleury (CALL-IS)

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Resource Description: a video on how to teach Conditionals in a way that makes it easier for students to remember

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Resource Description: Plenty of students make mistakes with having an 's' at the end of verbs following third-person subjects, either by not including it when they should, or by including it when they shouldn't.  If it's not addressed when students are beginners, it can continue to be a problem for intermediate students.

Here's a trick to help students identify those mistakes, or even prevent them from making them in the first place.  It's called "the One Red 'S' rule".

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