by Marcel Negrete | Oct 4, 2015 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
We’ve posted in the past on basic techniques that you can use to accommodate multi-level classrooms. We wanted to take this opportunity to discuss ways to adjust your teaching that can be brought into the multi-level classroom. On page 9 of the English Forward...
by Marcel Negrete | Sep 18, 2015 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
We wanted to use this teaching tip as an opportunity to let you know about a couple of great, free electronic assessment tools that you can use in your classroom. Poll Everywhere is a tool that allows you to create electronic surveys that can be answered (and the...
by Marcel Negrete | Sep 2, 2015 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
Whenever it makes sense to do so, we at English Forward create the necessary supplemental materials for a lesson and make them available to you, such as conversation cards and surveys. Sometimes, though, the supplemental materials can be tweaked or added to...
by Marcel Negrete | Aug 18, 2015 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
You know by using the English Forward curriculum that reviewing is not built into the Lesson Flow or the English Forward lessons. This is to ensure that the curriculum is flexible—any lesson can be taught before or after any other. We wanted to take a moment, though,...
by Marcel Negrete | Aug 3, 2015 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
A great way to get your students thinking (Step 1: Activate Background Knowledge!) and set yourself up for a lesson is to use step 1 of the lesson flow to have your students create the supplemental materials that you’ll be using later in the lesson. If, for example,...
by Marcel Negrete | Jun 22, 2015 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
While you are a great resource to your students inside the classroom, students often need help navigating the outside world as well. One way to do this is to create a collection of resources that may be useful to your students and make it available to them. This could...
