Useful site for less experienced teachers

This site has nice short summaries on a range of topics. It's written by James Alatis, former head of linguistics at Georgetown University, so it's quite good.

http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/planning/structure.htm

Visual thesaurus

This a great online gidget that allows you to see synonyms or closely related words in the form of a visual mindmap.

You have to buy it to get regular access, but you can check it out before you do.

I don't use it a lot, but it's really cool anyway...

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Online dictionary of English teaching terminology

This is a useful tool for folks like me who sometimes aren't sure of their terminology.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/knowledge-wiki/index-e

Online EFL course for Spanish speakers

Here is a link to an online course that has been produced in Ecuador.

http://guayaquil.gov.ec/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=516&Itemid=174

If you're interested in supporting Second Language Learners in K-12 settings...

Jill Mora is a professor at San Diego State and has put a lot of useful summaries of her courses online.

http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/moramodules/default.htm#Theory

Here are the courses she teaches. Click on the link to find more detail

Theoretical Foundations of Bilingual/L2 Education
Thematic Unit & Lesson Planning for CLAD Instruction
Literacy Instruction in the CLAD Classroom
Teaching in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
Bilingual Education and Biliteracy Instruction

Humanising Language Teaching - an online magazine

This online magazine has a lot of great articles

http://www.hltmag.co.uk/

The Internet TESL Journal

A huge number of great articles here! Something for everyone!

http://iteslj.org/

Empowering teachers as testers

Here is a link to a video presentation at IATEFL 2009 on helping teachers with assessment.

http://iatefl09.britishcouncil.org/2009/sessions/63/empowering-teachers-testers-0

Session Details

As testers, our aim is to involve teachers in all phases of testing, at the very least to increase their understanding of the place of assessment in the teaching/learning process and to gain their cooperation in promoting transparency. The presenter will set this topic in context and present useful techniques for developing teachers as testers.

Creating interesting language exercises, and making language exercises interesting

Here is a link to a video of a presentation by Penny Ur in which she will

look at some grammar, vocabulary and spelling exercises, discuss what makes them more - or less - interesting, and explore some strategies that can add interest to the boring ones. The aim is to equip participants with some ‘practical principles’ for creating and maintaining interest in essentially form-focused procedures

http://iatefl09.britishcouncil.org/2009/sessions/63/creating-interesting-language-exercises-and-making-language-exercises-interesting