I’ve published numerous posts over the years in which teachers of many content areas have shared their most effective lessons. In this series, it’s time for teachers of English/language-learner ...

If you’re dreaming of ditching the 9-to-5, packing your laptop, and earning money from anywhere, you’ve probably come across the idea of teaching English online. It sounds simple: talk to students, ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Eleventh-grader My-Linh Thai sat with her guidance counselor at Federal Way High, Vietnamese-English dictionary in her bag. “I want to go to the University of Washington and become a doctor,” she said ...

Julie Dearden receives funding from the British Council. Universities and schools across the globe are offering an increasing number of courses taught in English. Parents and politicians alike are ...

Understand and communicate to them how the content relates to their reality: While the content we teach in so many ways is both traditional and new in all disciplines, our student audience is not the ...