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Educator Consultant
- Nov 21, 2021
- 1 min
Teaching Resources: Set of 15 short-film reflective assignments and more!
This easily adaptable set of assignments is a quick way to incorporate a reflective type of assignment into your homework or classroom...
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Educator Consultant
- Nov 5, 2021
- 1 min
Interdisciplinary studies and your approach to language teaching
Namiko Tsuruta shares her insights on how her foreign language and interdisciplinary studies have influenced the way she approaches...
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Educator Consultant
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
A new spin on Task-based Teaching with Fiona Wall Minami
Escape the Classroom is an English communication textbook aimed at university students as well as advanced high school students and adult...
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Educator Consultant
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
Reading books at the right level can inspire motivation!
Andrew Boon is a professor in the faculty of Global Communications at Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan. He has been teaching in Japan...
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Educator Consultant
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
Humour in language education
John Rucynski has co-authored three textbooks for university English courses in Japan and edited two books on humour in language...
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Mizuka Tsukamoto
- Jun 8, 2021
- 4 min
A story: Putting reflection into practice (to improve classroom teaching)
Mizuka Tsukamoto Entering University EFL Teaching Besides the part-time teaching job I had at one of the major Eikaiwa schools when I was...
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Jennifer Toews-Shimizu, MA
- Apr 27, 2021
- 4 min
Giving your students technological independence (and a Tech Toolbox)
Whether bringing your students online full-time or just using a learning platform to supplement and support your classroom, helping your...
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Rich Bailey, MA in TESOL
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Health & Wellbeing: Are you sitting in front of your computer too much?
Even before COVID-19 upended the teaching world, many of us were already spending too much time sitting in front of our computers. For...
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Andrew Boon, PhD
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
Steps to developing effective online research skills in your students
Introduction Rather than being an emergency stopgap, remote teaching has been an excellent way to help learners develop effective...
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Sherilyn Siy, MA
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Exercise to Think Better
Everyone knows the physical benefits of exercise. Each January resolutions are made to lose weight, eat better, and exercise more often, all
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Sherilyn Siy, MA
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Deep Work for Educators
Highly productive people have three common practices: They can focus and do deep work; they know the best time of day to engage in this work
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Rich Bailey, MA in TESOL
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Build classroom rapport by easily learning student names and faces with your smartphone!
As teachers, we often ask our students to do something that is difficult, something that they do not want to do. One of the few reasons...
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Jeff Moore, PhD
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Teaching pronunciation through a mask
If you’ve been relying on exaggerated mouth movements to teach your students pronunciation, a classroom full of people wearing masks is...
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Jeff Moore, PhD
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Handier handouts and worksheets that work: using Google Docs for teaching
As teachers, we’re constantly doing three or four different jobs at once. In the classroom, you’re a coach, a counselor, and sometimes a lit
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Jeff Moore, PhD
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Your students have plenty of motivation—use it!
Each of us has dozens of goals. I would love to have time to publish ten journal articles a year, take my wife on dates, write a book, learn
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Glen Hill, M.S.
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
How to start writing when you think you have nothing to write
Fiction writers call it writer’s block, a condition when you can’t seem to get started on a project or section of it. With writers of...
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Glen Hill, M.S.
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
What is the manuscript revision process?
After you submit a paper, there are only two outcomes: acceptance and rejection. There may be gray areas within each, where the word “tentat
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Joseph Tomei, PhD
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
Reimagining Deadlines
In the good old days, you gave an assignment, said when it was due, possibly the next class or in a few weeks. You collected the papers...
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Joseph Tomei, PhD
- Feb 17, 2021
- 3 min
Reconsidering grading in the online environment
As we threw ourselves into teaching online, many of us did not realize that looming around the bend was a challenge that would try a lot...
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