by Marcel Negrete | May 24, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
Have you ever taught an open-enrollment ESL class? In open-enrollment classes, there is no ‘start’ date. Students join an on ongoing basis. As those of you who have taught in an open-enrollment program know, it can be a big challenge. You never know who you’ll have in...
by Marcel Negrete | May 15, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
The English Forward team is on the go. We spent last week in Madison, Wisconsin working with a great group of teachers and right now we’re in beautiful Lancaster, SC. The Carolinas Literacy Network brought us in the share English Forward with their community as...
by Marcel Negrete | May 2, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
This month’s user submitted question comes from a teacher wondering about the best ways to use Can Do Lists in the classroom. This is a timely question! We just finished gathering feedback from teachers using the English Forward curriculum, and this very same question...
by Marcel Negrete | Apr 12, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
As a follow-up to last week’s post on group work, I wanted to share a few tips on how to assign students to groups. The easy, low-prep way to put students in pairs or teams is to ask them to work with someone sitting next to them or to let them choose their own...
by Marcel Negrete | Apr 5, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
What do the Images Below Have in Common? If you said they all relate to protecting the environment, give yourself a gold star. Do you think your students would have been able to guess that? Do they know about recycling and being green? Earth Day is...
by Marcel Negrete | Mar 29, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
As teachers we want to maximize the time our students are speaking and using English in the classroom. One way to do this is by using pair and group work. But how do you decide which students to place in which groups. There are a number of grouping strategies you...
