ESOL Teacher Pages
Click on the button for your level.
Getting Started
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How to Effectively Move Your ESL Class Online: Click here to view a webinar by Dr. Glenda Rose. There is a simple sign-in to access the recording. To the right, you can download the PowerPoint that accompanies the video.
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Tech Support: Quick How-To Videos
Some useful Youtube Channels:
Or click on one of the buttons below for a direct link.
- Community Impact's For ESOL Teachers: short videos on how to use Zoom features. If your students are having problems, you can refer them to Community Impact's For ESOL Students.
- The Literacy Assistance Center: shorter & longer videos on a variety of digital resources.
- Eric Shellhase's ESL Class from Home: digital lessons for low-level English learners.
- Must-Have Google Chrome Extensions for Teachers
Or click on one of the buttons below for a direct link.
Useful Links for Online Instruction
VIDEO
- We Speak NYC: can be adapted for all levels; 19 civics-focused videos; includes teacher resources & civic resources.
- Putting English to Work Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3: low levels; designed for self-study; downloadable worksheets.
- Voice of America: all levels; designed for self-study; downloadable lessons; videos & listening activities can be easily shared & embedded; includes speaking practice, pronunciation, & conversation.
- TV411: advanced; topics include reading, writing, vocabulary, math, science, & finance.
- Workplace Essential Skills: upper-intermediate, advanced; workplace skills.
- Stated Clearly: intermediate, advanced; science-related topics; designed for middle-school & high-school students; includes related articles for reading.
- EdPuzzle: Insert comprehension questions into a video.
- Screencastify: Use this Chrome extension to record, edit, and share your own videos. Click here to view a tutorial on how to get started.
LISTENING
- Elllo: all levels; search by level & topic; also includes videos.
- Real English: beginning & intermediate; short, simple, repetitive interviews with real people; closed captioning can be activated.
- Story Corps: lower intermediate to advanced; interesting life stories under 3 minutes.
- Voice of America: intermediate & advanced excerpts with text.
READING
- ESL Literacy Readers: beginners; includes audio.
- ESL Story Bank from the Minnesota Literacy Council: pre-beginning (levels 1 & 2) & beginning (levels 2 & 3).
- Breaking News English: all levels; articles can be modified for different levels; good for differentiated instruction.
- Common Lit: designed for 3rd to 12th grade students; can be adapted for all levels; teacher guide for registered users; registration is free.
- ReadWorks: designed for K-12; can be adapted for all levels; includes remote learning resources for educators.
- Newsela: designed for K-12; can be adapted for all levels; free registration until the end of 2019-2020 academic year.
- The Times in Plain English: high beginning to advanced; includes tips for teachers.
- Actively Learn: designed for 3rd to 12th grade students; can be adapted for lower-intermediate to advanced; create free educator account.
- Subway Reads: high beginning to advanced.
IMAGES / TOPICS for DISCUSSION
- We Speak NYC Image Bank
- Picture Stories for Health Literacy
- Learning Network Picture Prompts
- Internet TESL Journal (conversation questions)
- Monster (job interview questions)
WHITE BOARDS: Click here to watch the LAC Vlog Whiteboards video, which explains how to use the Zoom whiteboard & introduces the alternative options listed below.
COMMUNICATING with STUDENTS
- Mighty Text: Send & receive text messages from your computer or tablet.
- Remind: Send text messages without sharing your telephone number; set up group text for entire class.
- WhatsApp: Click here to view a webinar for the EdTech Center on using WhatsApp as an instructional tool. Click here to see 3 simple activities you can do using WhatsApp. Click here to read about how to perform in-person classroom strategies remotely on WhatsApp.
- Flipgrid: Record & share short selfie-style videos. Have your students respond with their own videos. Click here for a tutorial on how to get started..
- Mentimeter: Create polls & share results with participants.
OTHER
- Learning Resources from Los Angeles United School District's DACE (Division of Adult & Career Education), includes videos and Newsela & Softskills worksheets for different levels, designed for self-study.
- CollectEdNY's ESOL Resources for Healthy Practices in COVID Times & Teaching About the Coronavirus. (Click here for general ESOL resources.)
- The Ultimate Guide to Online Resources for Educators: 20 free apps for online teaching.
- Queens Public Library ESOL Curriculum for Teachers: a theme-based curriculum with lessons plans & activity sheets.
NEW: Reading Library for All Levels
CrowdED Learning has created supplemental resources--quizlet vocabulary cards and Google form comprehension-check quizzes--to support the readings from the Marshall Leveled Reading Program (Reading Skills for Today's Adults). Each reading is accompanied by three audio recordings at different speeds. The site is easy to use, and the readings are relevant to and easy to share with your learners. Quizzes can be copied and modified so that student responses are sent to the instructor.
There is an overwhelming number of free and for-fee resources, instructional strategies, and general how-to information related to remote teaching. We have tried to select some of the more useful sites with an emphasis on adult education.
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The EdTech Center at World Education leverages technology to increase the reach and impact of education and workforce initiatives. Click here to see their tips for distance learning. Click here to view their distance ed strategy sessions, a series of recorded webinars. |
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Literacy Assistance Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and expanding the adult education system. Click here for LAC's COVID-19 Resources. Click here to view the LAC's YouTube Channel. |
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ProLiteracy: Dedicated to raising literacy rates to improve lives worldwide. Click here to see their COVID-19 Resources for Programs and Learners. |
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CrowdEd Learning: Quality, free resources for educators. Click here for teacher tools for communication; content resources; and management, assignment, & sharing. Click here for the Skill Directory to explore content resources sorted by academic, workplace, and lifelong learning competencies. |
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National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tours
National Park Service Virtual Tours of Yellowstone
Tenement Museum
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