For Teachers

Lesson Panning:

The Lesson Plan Builder The OTAN Online Lesson Plan Builder for adult educators makes it easier for you to develop quality lesson plans that address adult education content standards in the context of CASAS competencies.

The Lesson Plan Builder….

  • provides a customer friendly WIPPEA template to develop lessons for adult educators
  • provides sample lessons as models
  • allows the user to “backward design” a lesson
  • provides a quick link to CASAS competencies
  • stores lessons for future use

Please sign-in at left to learn more about lesson design in six simple steps or to create, view, print or edit one of your lesson plans.

WIPPEA Lesson Plan Template in Word format: Google “WIPEAR Lesson Plan Format”

CASAS Summer Institute 2012 Document on Lesson Planning: Step-by-step description of WIPPEA Format

Career Exploration:

https://careerwise.minnstate.edu/mymncareers/index.html

Professional Development Opportunities at CCCC

http://www.cccc.edu/collegeservices/humanresources/professional-development/

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Collaborative /Communicative Teacher’s Resources

Spin the Wheel

www.onestopenglish.com It’s a teachers’ resource site published by Macmillan English, one of the world’s leading publishers of English language teaching materials. (You will need to create an account)

OUP Teacher’s Club (You will need to create an account)

Future English for Results (You will need to create an account) Multilevel Communicative Activities Guides offer approximately 60 ready-to-use reproducibles per level that correspond to each lesson. Each activity is accompanied by detailed teacher notes that include ways to adapt the activity to multilevel students.

Ventures Teacher’s Resource Room (You will need to create an account)

ELTbase: ELTbase is a database of resources for teachers and students of English as a second or foreign language. English language worksheetsquizzesnotes and other online resources are indexed by language point and linked to leading course books. The emphasis is on adult / young adult learners at levels from intermediate to advanced, although some resources are suitable for younger learners and lower levels.

Lyrical English: Free song based lesson plans

Film English: Shorts & Film Lesson Plans

http://iteslj.org/questions/Conversation questions and topics for the ESL classroom

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline: features everything from standards-based lesson plans and classroom activities to a multimedia primer, online mentors, and reviews of curriculum-based Web sites.

http://www.fourcornerslearning.org/edresources/index.htm

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/Health/healthindex.html Picture Stories for Adult ESL Health Literacy

TV411 helps adults gain the basic reading, writing, math, and science skills they need to achieve their educational, career, and personal goals

hwww.cambridge.org/grammarandbeyond/newsletter:The Grammar Teaching Newsletter is a monthly publication from practicing classroom teachers and grammar experts.

www.studystack.com Find flashcards to study or create your own

www.eslflashcards.com ESL Flashcards

Flashcard Maker Make your own flashcards! You can add images, text and phonemic script.

British Council Printable Flashcards

www.eltpics.com A collection of thousands of photographs taken by people who work in the field of teaching ESL (Creative Commons friendly)

www.engvid.com Video lessons by experienced native-speaker teachers. New classes are added three times a week, covering grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, TOEFL, and more.

www.esl-galaxy.com Communicative ESL Board Games

www.quia.com Board Games

www.bbc.co.uk

www.teachertube

www. TEDEd.com How to Create a Ted Ed Lesson Step-by-Step Lesson guide on how to use TED Ed

www.teflvideos.com

FRONTLINE – PBS Classroom activities with streaming video, downloadable lesson plans and web-exclusive resources to accompany FRONTLINE programs in the classroom

www.shortcutscomic.com Fun comics classified into topics. Great teacher’s resource guides. (These usually appear in the N&O)

learning.blogs.nytimes.com Teaching and Learning with The New York Times (for advanced students)

bogglesworldesl.com ESL Games and Game Boards

www.cal.org Center For Adult English Language Acquisition

www.eslflow.com Teaching Lesson Links

www.eslfocus.com

www.eslvideo.com English as a Second Language Teachers Creating ESL Video Quizzes for ESL Students

CASAS Test Practice

http://www.web-esl.com/pages/ila.html  Great CASAS test Practice

http://www.seminolestate.edu/adult-ed/els/pett/reading-tests Great CASAS test practice (PPP you can download!!)

TABE Test Practice

McGraw Hill Online Learning Center Instructor Site with lots of resources, even instructional PPP!!

CAL: Center for Applied Linguistics: Practitioner Toolkit

Citizenship: 

http://abspd.appstate.edu/teaching-resources Teaching resources from Adult Basic Skills Professional Development @ Appalachian State University

http://www.uscitizenship.org/teach.htm: This Teaching Guide Ebook contains everything you need to prepare students for the 2012 version of the US Citizenship test.

USCIS study material for the Citizenship Test

The USCIS Naturalization Interview and Test Video

USCIS Teacher Resources

TESOL Professional Development Day 2015

Live Binder: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/1747461

Julia’s Presentation 2015 https://ccccesl.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/tesol-toronto-2015/

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