Inspiration and ideas to encourage educators to expand the possibilities when it comes to any genre they teach.

We all know about chatbots and Artificial Intelligence; most times they are used for advertising (sometimes for nefarious purposes). However, Grow with Google's Interview Warmup utilizes both chatbots and AI to help users get to practice being interviewed for a job. The program asks simple interview questions and then the user can use either their microphone or keyboard to answer the questions and get feedback on their answers to improve their interviewee skills. Great for students who are learning about resumes and the workforce to see how they could improve their interview skills.

This article provides guidelines for teaching, modeling, and practicing the basics of effective speaking.

This digital experiment, co-authored by Google's Wellbeing Lab and Johns Hopkins, is a digital wellness online app that allows users to do a mindfulness activity with a digital plant. It is a simple, but effective way to connect students to mindfulness activities and nature in our digital world.

Provides strategies to improve the quality of discussion in online as well as in-person formats.

An English language skills textbook to help ESL students acquire communication skills in the community (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) The book is aimed at CLB levels 5/6 focusing on intercultural skills and essential skills: reading text, document use, writing, oral communication, thinking skills, working with others, and computer use.

Let students present about themselves as a get to know you activity in Google Slides!

Learn about Google Classroom's newest feature, practice sets, which will be coming in August 2022.

Inverted Pyramid Representing ACTFL Rating Scale with Major Ranges and Sublevels including Distinguished

Inverted Pyramid Representing ACTFL Rating Scale with Major Ranges and Sublevels including Distinguished

This website and professional texts by Jeff Zwiers offer a variety of resources (tools, research, videos, etc.) for strengthening the quality and quantity of productive academic conversations.

A high school teacher describes an assignment in which students study the histories and social reception of words (in some cases considered obscenities) used to insult people of various social categories. Students come to recognize the powerful, sometimes damaging effects of language, enabling them to fight those effects intellectually. Many derogatory terms are cited as examples in this essay.

In this Cult of Pedagogy podcast, Jennifer Gonzalez defines three different approaches to designing rubrics to assess student work and provides examples of each, while discussing the benefits and drawbacks of the different models. Teachers may find these resources useful as they consider how they use their rubrics for response to and/or assessment of student writing.