by Marcel Negrete | Jul 23, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
In June we gave the English Forward training to teachers and trainers from around Arkansas. We had a blast and got great feedback from participants. I also got a lot of questions about using newspapers. Ann Ritter from Crawford County Volunteers for Literacy in Van...
by Marcel Negrete | Jun 11, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
During our recent training in Madison, Wisconsin I had a participant ask about ways to encourage more student interactions with the local community. This is a great question! We want our students to be able to move English from the classroom to the “real world”. Here...
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 | 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 | 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...
by Marcel Negrete | Mar 14, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
The most common questions I get asked by new teachers are about multi-level classrooms. Even if your program has leveled classes, it’s likely there’ll still be differences in levels among your students. So what’s a teacher to do? Start by checking...
