Take a look at some tips for professional development care of the EdTech Team and how they can be applied in a classroom.

See how changing the font of your document can help support reading comprehension for some ESL students with learning differences, including dyslexia.

Find out ways to use technology to help English learners understand you without lowering the bar using ed tech tools to scaffold their learning at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

The most common mistake I see teachers make when creating projects is that they spend a great deal of time putting together the description and requirements, and then recycle this information into the assessment rubric. Don’t do it! This undermines the requirements of your project!!

Use a simple template to establish a weekly procedure your students follow for creating an ongoing resource of vocabulary they learn as ESL students.

Read about Madame Shepard’s great world language blog at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

Looking for fun short films to play in English class? Here’s a great resource with pre-screened content. See our review at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

Annabelle’s ideas are all rooted around Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI) and Organic World Language (OWL). These practices support 100% immersion classrooms, which is exactly how the Ministry of Education wants Auxiliares de Conversación to be teaching in Spain.

A review of Ryan Newman’s website to help ESL teachers create custom resources for their classes

Current events trivia game activity for your ESL students via www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

Learn how auxiliares de conversación in Spain can use ISL Collective to instantly create interactive YouTube and Vimeo activities for their ESL classes, and use their thousands of worksheets and PowerPoints.

Learn why auxiliares de conversación should start using TubeQuizard to make cloze-style listening comprehension activities at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.og

A Game of Thrones themed integrated performance assessment for auxiliares de conversación in Spain ESL (English as a second or foreign language) classes about beauty found only at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

First week hacks that will save you hours and hours over your year as an auxiliar de conversación and make you a more effective language assistant–only available at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

How auxiliares de conversación can help students get “unstuck” when speaking using circumlocution. Read more at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

Find out about this totally free professional development conference for world language teachers on www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

Review of a teaching blog with the best fun videos for ESL students- check it out at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

Review of a great resource with 15 whole class discussion activities found at www.auxiliaresdeconversacion.org

Tom’s Digital Breakouts will keep your students Engaged and speaking English from bell to bell.

This podcast will give you tips, tools and tricks to inspire you and to engage your students in the classroom using technology.

Website with links to educational resources related to teaching English- especially games, educational technology, free things, songs, videos, and books.

Cristina has great teaching ideas based on research-based methods (movement, using all modes of communication, repetition, working with groups, growth-mindset), and explains her activities using pictures and video.

Auxiliares de conversación, These science podcasts are SO engaging (think Bill Nye the Science Guy engaging) and SO easy to understand, that they make a perfect addition to any level science class. Use them as a warm-up to your lesson, or as the lesson itself.

The idea cookbook is where it’s at for auxiliares de conversación in my opinion: he’s got hundreds of crowdsourced games listed alphabetically.

Tyler Tarver is the best Ed Tech presenter I’ve ever seen- In these flipped videos, he walks you through each skill that Eric Curtis recommends studying to pass the Google Certified Educator Level 1 exam.

NetCredit made an easy to read infographic with tons of not-so-obvious time savers for working with Google Drive that will save you time, save you money, and will be your gateway drug into the power of Google. This is perfect for auxiliares de conversación who are teaching English abroad in Spain through the MEC program, as it is a beginner’s guide and doesn’t require background knowledge.

Auxiliares de Conversación can learn a ton from Liam Day’s website with hundreds of free TEFL resources, including videos, lesson plans, blogs and advice from a veteran English teacher who has taught English abroad in Spain, the UK, South Korea and the Czech Republic for 10 years.