General Teaching

Likes and Dislikes English Battleship

This is an activity designed for intermediate or upper-intermediate EFL/ESL students. This activity is constructed around a battleship style information gap. The game is played between two students. Each student chooses up to ten spaces on the board. Students use a Do you like/ Do you dislike.. question pattern to try to discover which ten [...]

Speaking Rubric for Performance Assessment

Here are tools for teachers that can easily be adapted for classroom use. When possible I’ve included the .pdf for you to preview and a document file that you can download and personalize for  classroom needs. This is a rubric designed to provide guidance on test based speaking assessments. In this rubric the student, pair [...]

Particpation Rubric for Hetrogenous Classrooms

Here are tools for teachers that can easily be adapted for classroom use. When possible I’ve included the .pdf for you to preview and a document file that you can download and personalize for  classroom needs. This is a rubric designed to provide details on what a grading scale or score means based on certain [...]

Rubric of Classroom Participation Standards

Here are tools for teachers that can easily be adapted for classroom use. When possible I’ve included the .pdf for you to preview and a document file that you can download and personalize for  classroom needs. This is a rubric designed to provide details on what a grading scale or score means based on certain [...]

PPP Lesson Plan Template

The Present, Practice, Production (PPP) lesson plan has three core parts. New language, such as grammar, pronunciation, or vocabulary, is given to students during the Present stage. In the second stage, Practice, students are then allowed to work with the new language they were just given. This can be accomplished in the form of individual, [...]

Countdown Classroom Timer

Sometimes it can be hard to keep students on track during team working times. I created this countdown timer. It can be set to start anywhere with a maximum countdown time of 10  minutes. This can be a great way to get students back on track towards the end of an activity or sessions. This [...]

End of Semseter or Grading Period Comments

Here are tools for teachers that can easily be adapted for classroom use. When possible I’ve included the .pdf for you to preview and a document file that you can download and personalize for  classroom needs. Often teachers are asked to give comments on student performance in the classroom. It can sometimes be difficult to [...]

Late Poster

Here are tools for teachers that can easily be adapted for classroom use. When possible I’ve included the .pdf for you to preview and a document file that you can download and personalize for  classroom needs. This is a poster I would place on the bulletin board in my classroom to reminds students not to [...]

Rules Posters for Teachers

Here are tools for teachers that can easily be adapted for classroom use. When possible I’ve included the .pdf for you to preview and a document file that you can download and personalize for  classroom needs. Presenting the rules to students is extremely important. To help my students understand the rules, and remind students of [...]

End of the Year Report Comments in English and Korean

Here are tools for teachers that can easily be adapted for classroom use. When possible I’ve included the .pdf for you to preview and a document file that you can download and personalize for  classroom needs. Often teachers are asked to give comments on student performance in the classroom. It can sometimes be difficult to [...]