I think it is very important to implement all the aid that technology has given us. I didn't know there were Text Read-Aloud Tools, which helps our students improve their listening comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, listening comprehension, and word recognition, I will implement that soon. I almost always see English content with subtitles, so I know how useful it is to add close captions to our classes, I will use also that in my classes. Every time I discover more and more tools that allow us to improve our students' experience and it is a relief that more and more are being created to make our classes more and more interactive.
These are some recommendations for teachers who are doing classes through the virtual environment and different online platforms. There are recommended tools and webs that can be used during the classes in order to improve participation.
This website is quite useful as it provides a long list of different activities that can make the class more didactic and entertaining. This can also help for the moments during lesson planning where it is hard to think about any ideas to make the class more interactive.
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Extremely Important resource! The above resource had given me an insight into all the beneficial digital tool that educators could use to reach all stages of the SAMR model. One resource, in particular, caught my eye, YoutTube. Through a further investigation into how I could utilise YouTube in my classroom, I discovered, that students can upload their assessment pieces, or even class tasks, onto this platform. Youtube, is possibly the best resource for education, as it has various privacy settings, which allow students to upload their work privately while also allowing their teacher and peers to review their uploaded work.
Additionally, youtube is great as it will enable the Educator to create a class page, in which all students have access too, and can upload assessment work. Aside from this feature, students will also have the opportunity to comment on their peers' posts, proving collaboration. Lastly, YouTube is a fantastic resource, as it allows students to practice the redefinition level of the SAMR model.
Spedsheets.com provides FREE, modified English worksheets with NO SIGN-UP. You have access to professionally designed, modified English worksheets to help save time. All worksheets have audio to help students who need text read.
Thinking of all students capabilities is essential! Educators need to consider the possibility that they may encounter a student with learning disabilities or special needs. Educators, when faced with this situation need to always have a modified assessment plan that is suited to the students learning needs.
Additionally, a mini-unit needs to be developed for students who have learning disabilities, so that they are able to pass the course, through the use of digital pedagogies.
Last year, I began a Twitter list of ELL/ESL/ELT educators and, as you can see from the above screenshot, it’s grown both in number of teachers on the list and in number of subscribers…
If you have a Twitter account, you may want to consider Larry Ferlazzo's list. A lot of ideas being shared here that may be useful to your teaching situation.
For learning English it is supposed to be exposed as much as possible to meaningful and real contexts. Virtual Reality (VR) can change dramatically the way people learn english daily, with some hours of real interaction people will feel completely inmersed in a world where English is the communication. People should try this out for getting with new results.
If you are using Google Meet or Zoom or WebEx or other video chat platform you may have an issue with people who speak different languages. When they type in the chat... if you don't know the language, this could be an issue. A teacher told me she has several kids in her class that speak different languages. So I created a SPREADSHEET that the kids can use for the chat. They can put their chat comments into column B of the spreadsheet and students can reply in column B. Each in their own native language. Column C automatically translates whatever is in Column B... no matter the language... to English. The spreadsheet also translates to ALL other supported languages. This spreadsheet has NO code and thus no authorization required. Enjoy!
English teachers require many strategies to successfully develop their classes, this website can be of great help as it helps and suggests ideas for planning your lessons, you can find great help to apply in the classroom as well as articles, videos, publications and courses. In addition, you can not only find ideas to develop your classes, but also find strategies that can help you in your professional training.
Grammar is the collection of rules and conventions that makes languages go. This section is about Standard American English, but there's something here for everyone.
Five years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be…
YouTube is the biggest and a free platform for entertainment in the world, there is a lot of content for different likes and people. Here people can learn a lot from a incredible amount of different topics. So why not to use it for learning English? Here there are YouTube Channels whose focus is teaching english by giving tips, explaining different topics or even explaining idioms, there are a lot of possibilities that people should definitely take into account when learning English.
Youtube is an excellent tool through which we can access a big amount of content in different languages including English. Nowadays, we do not depend only on the audios and texts we used to learn English, we can also search for almost any topic about English and there will be a class available. I think that youtube is a very useful tool since it is very easy to have access to it. If you have internet it does not matter in which part of the world you are, you can access a video of youtube.
All the student hand-outs from the first book Katie Hull and I wrote have been available for free download to everyone ever since the book was published. However, due to a technical fluke, t…
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