Our new reality brings new challenges, but don't let that stop you from taking advantage of new opportunities and gaining new experience! We invite you to join our live viewing sessions of American English Live's Teacher Development Series from the comfort of your own home!

America House is debuting a program for Teacher's of English that will feature resources freely available on the American English Website. Focusing on materials for student-centered learning, there will be something for teachers to use at any level.

Pick up your pencils and prepare to write. We're looking at activities and strategies for teaching writers of English. 

In our program for teachers we're discussing how and why to use music in the language classroom. After we analyze several activities that can be a part of a great lesson plan using music, we'll have a raffle for free CDs!

For our final session of the summer we’ll take a look at some speaking strategies that can best help our students express themselves in a rigorous academic setting.

In this session we’ll explore the criteria, goals, and structure of Task-Based Learning (TBL). In keeping with our experiential-learning approach we will ourselves complete a group task, and reflect on the ways in which it could best help stimulate our students creativity and collaboration, as well as facilitate their language use and development.

We’re stepping inside the piquant confines of Lit Circles this week to experience the ways in which this collaborative approach to reading can foster deeper understanding of the material, meet different learning styles, and offer our students a chance to take control of their own learning.

In this session we will work through some activities that can help facilitate our students’ understanding and usage of the oft-elusive phrasal verbs.

We will wrap-up with a review game that enables our students to pool their new knowledge from the readings and make it stick.

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Pre-reading strategies such as activating schema, making predictions, and Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS), and reading techniques such as skimming, scanning, and supporting opinions. We will also use vocabulary building activities in support of our readings.

In this session, we will explore the method of “CLIL” and transfer the theory into practice.  

Join us for a special session on using art as a basis for developing English vocabulary, grammar and so much more!

In this session, we’ll discuss some of the “nuts and bolts” of creating dynamic workshops to impress any audience.  

This week we will be exploring a variety of exciting exercises for introducing new  vocabulary in the English language classroom.

Join us for this workshop, in which teachers will learn some of the basics of writing an argumentative essay.

New to digital learning?  No problem!  The presenter will offer tools and techniques for teachers with all levels of experience in English Language Teaching.

This webinar presents ways to create effective writing assignments using blogs, collages, video/audio essays, and storyboards. We will also discuss how to evaluate multimodal assignments fairly, using rubrics designed especially for these assignments.

 In this section of the “8 Great” series, we will be focusing on creative ways to get students talking while targeting specific grammar topics.