Features
How to Train Your English Teacher
Teaching English online is exploding in popularity, which is great news for teachers and learners as it...
Sharing Selfie Improvement
Outside singles competitions—say, in tennis or the shot put or figure skating—there are very few truly individual...
Oct. 5 is #WorldTeachersDay
October 5 is World Teachers' Day and this year the theme is "Young Teachers: The Future...
Meeting Teachers’ Needs to Help Dyslexic Students Succeed
The beginning of a new year always brings new education policies and strategies. U.S. educators currently find...
Literacy
Taking the Fear Out of Dyslexia
It has only been in the last decade or so that dyslexia
has been recognized as a legitimate...
Free English Lessons in the UK for Non-native Speakers
Long-established group of English-language
schools, British Study Centres (BSC) is now offering free English lessons for
local, non-native speakers....
Reading in Any Language Improves Reading Levels in English
A new study shows early reading in any
language helps children learn to read English. The study, titled...
Introduction to Teaching Adult ELLs
Published by Cambridge University Press, Teaching Adult English Language Learners is a...
World Language News
Hungarian Language Skill Amendment Accepted
From 2020, high school graduates in Hungary are required to
possess at least one upper-intermediate language certificate or...
10 Best Foreign Language Horror Movies for Halloween
Some say love is the universal language of humanity, but
fear can work just as well. We’ve compiled a list of foreign language...
The App Educating the Children of Pakistan’s Slums
A new app called Taleemabad is bridging the gap of students overlooked by traditional schooling in Pakistan....
New Unified Inkutut Writing System Approved
The national Inuit organization of Canada has decided on a
new standard of writing for a unified Inkutut...
Resources
Indigenous-Language-Friendly Approach to Digital Learning and Data
The New Zealand Ministry of Education has chosen Edsby as the educational tool to form the basis...
Languages
Free English Lessons in the UK for Non-native Speakers
Long-established group of English-language
schools, British Study Centres (BSC) is now offering free English lessons for
local, non-native speakers....
Celebrate National Teach Spanish Day!
September 30 is National Teach Spanish Day. Launched by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and...
Online Chat with Purpose
Chita Espino-Bravo offers advice on teaching and assessing conversation in a Spanish virtual course
Poll Finds out What Latino Voters Want in Presidential Candidate
UnidosUS, the United State’s largest nonprofit advocacy organization,
has recently released its 2020...
Professional Development
How to Train Your English Teacher
Teaching English online is exploding in popularity, which is great news for teachers and learners as it...
Sharing Selfie Improvement
Outside singles competitions—say, in tennis or the shot put or figure skating—there are very few truly individual...
Empower Responsive Teaching for Every Literacy Learner
Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell bring more than twenty-five years of research and classroom observation of...
Meaningful Professional Growth
Amanda Seewald offers a spoonful of thoughts from a teacher coachThe most...
Speaking by Numbers
Martha Edelson and Lori Langer de Ramirez share the consequences of motivation and affect in teaching...