by Marcel Negrete | Oct 24, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
If you’re like me, you like to use PowerPoints in the classroom, but you just don’t have the time to sit down and put a PowerPoint together. Lucky for us that one of our fantastic English Forward teachers, Hannah Davis, has generously shared some PowerPoints she put...
by Marcel Negrete | Oct 17, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
Looking for more picture cards to use in your classroom? Well – you’re in luck! In addition to updating some of the photos in our collection of picture cards to better represent the students in our classes, we’ve just added new picture cards for Lesson 6.2...
by Marcel Negrete | Oct 16, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
One of the most interesting things about teaching ESL is that you get to meet students from all over the world and learn about new cultures. While exciting, this can also lead to cultural misunderstandings – both between you and your students and among your students....
by Marcel Negrete | Sep 8, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
Do you like to use music in the classroom with your students? Do they seem to pick up words and phrases more quickly when you use multimedia? Well here’s some research to back up what we as teachers observe when we use music. A new study published in Springer...
by Marcel Negrete | Sep 5, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
Don’t’ Forget! Our Back to School contest to name the English Forward newsletter is in full swing. What does the winner receive? Bragging rights as the person cleverest enough to come up with the winning name! The winner will be chosen by our in-house team of...
by Marcel Negrete | Sep 3, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
I’m following up our last guest post with words of wisdom for new teachers from another of the Literacy Coalition’s outgoing AmeriCorps members – Fiona Meeker. Fiona spent last year working with AVANCE here in Central Texas. Although I had been...
