Category Powerpoint
Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers are valuable tools, especially for reading lessons, which often require that students comprehend abstract concepts. Students use organizers to visualize concepts, manage information, and recall details. Designs are numerous, making them adaptable to your lessons!
Establishing Classroom Procedures
Ecuador TEFL PCV John Buckner created this PowerPoint to help his teachers get back to school on the right footing.
TOEFL Reading Question Types
Ecuadorian PCV Elizabeth Sypher shares her teacher-training PowerPoint about the TOEFL reading section.
TOEFL Integrated Writing
Ecuador TEFL PCVs Nikki Rowley and Clare MacKenzie created this PowerPoint for a TOEFL writing workshop with local teachers.
Having Fun Writing Poetry
Ecuador TEFL PCV Miranda Duncan shares her intriguing approach to making writing poetry fun using the cinquain poem as a model.
Brainstorming: Part Two
Peace Corps Ecuador Volunteer Kate Barba produced this PowerPoint presentation and workshop for the University of Machala’s ESL teacher candidates. Prewriting is covered in more depth than in the previously posted “Brainstorming” PowerPoint as these prospective teachers have higher English fluency. Volunteers who are teaching college students or advanced speakers will find this resources useful.
Prewriting Brainstorming
Teaching the writing of academic English to Ecuadorian college students who wished to study abroad taught me that prewriting is critical to all successful writing. My favorite prewriting technique is brainstorming and creating cluster or bubble maps. This PowerPoint explains the why and how.
Vocabulary: a powerful weapon
Peace Corps Regional Volunteer Leader Nikki Rowley created two PowerPoints that show the importance of vocabulary and offer games to teach it in the classroom.
Who Knows, Knows Competition
Ecuador promotes school festival weeks, where students have the opportunity to present artwork, theater, dance, sporting events, and English competitions! The game the English department devised this year for the spring festival is called “Who Know, Knows.” Middle school students formed classroom groups and competed with other classrooms to answer the questions on the PowerPoint, […]
Teaching Writing
Peace Corps Ecuador created this presentation for TEFL volunteers to help them teach writing in their classrooms.
Creating a Mini-book
In this presentation, Peace Corps Volunteer Jazzy Osh shows teachers how to plan and design mini-books for a classroom unit project.
Implement Projects in the Classroom
In this presentation, Peace Corps Volunteer Jazzy Osh tells teachers how to implement projects, specifically a mobile, in the classroom that help students meet specific objectives and learning goals. She also discusses the valuable skills student learn as they take on project responsibilities and, in doing so, help teachers manage the classroom more effectively.
Use Dialogues and Role Plays Effectively
Improving students’ speaking skills is one of the greatest challenges TEFL teachers face. We know that communication is a primary goal, yet our students have few opportunities to practice English outside the classroom, making dialogues and role plays essential to our toolbox. This presentation talks about the benefits of using these tools and how to […]
Affixes
The objective of this presentation is to help teachers, and their students recognize and use the most common affixes– prefixes and suffixes– to increase their vocabulary and their understanding of academic texts.
Using Authentic Materials in the Classroom
This presentation discusses the benefits of using authentic materials and realia in different teaching contexts.
Using Songs in the Classroom
Students love songs, and songs can be used to teach the four skills–listening, speaking, reading, and writing–at different learning levels. In this presentation by Peace Corps Ecuador volunteer Emily Aiken, teachers will learn how and when to use songs effectively in their classrooms.
Writing Objectives
An objective is a brief, clear statement that describes what knowledge and skills you expect your students to acquire. Course and lesson objectives help students reach their goals, keep teachers on track, and determine what to assess.
Spice Up Your Dialogues!
Teaching students to communicate effectively is a key goal of Peace Corps TEFL programs. This presentation lists the benefits of using dialogues to reach this goal and provides classroom activities that will help students understand everyday conversations and speak confidently.
More Backwards Design Planning
Regional Peace Corps Volunteer Leader Nikki Rowley created this presentation, which explains why and how Backwards Design planning enables teachers and students to reach their goals and objectives.
Backward Design Lesson Planning
When planning lessons based on Backward Design, teachers begin at the end, which comprises the skills and understandings, Big Ideas, that students are expected to learn. Teachers then work backward to create engaging activities that will help students absorb these Big Ideas.
Classroom Management Tips
Classroom management means more learning. In large classes, it is critical to have rules, routines, and strategies to maintain control of your classroom and provide an environment in which your students want to and can participate, contribute, and learn. This Power Point was created by Ecuador PCVs Cathy Jackson and Shaun Nesheim for teacher training […]
The Write Stuff
This Power Point includes tried and true activities for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels that will make classroom writing presentations more effective and fun. It also has a section on practicing for the TOEFL writing sections.
Teaching Speaking
This PowerPoint offers strategies, techniques, and activities for teaching speaking to beginner, intermediate, and advanced students.
Listening Activities
Language learners need to be able to listen and comprehend conversations before they can join in. This Power Point lists pre-, during, and post-listening activities to help students participate in conversations sooner.
Rubrics
A rubric is a tool that lists the criteria that will be evaluated and describes the levels of performance on the task. Rubrics help teachers clearly communicate expectations and give feedback about students’ performance.
Teaching Vocabulary
This PowerPoint is designed for training teachers to teach vocabulary. It reviews 12 important things we need to know about a word and provides strategies and classroom activities for teaching vocabulary.
Building Reading Skills
This powerpoint gives teachers tips on building reading skills with pre- and post-reading activities.
Kitchen vocabulary powerpoint
A powerpoint on the vocabulary of the kitchen. Works with lessons about furniture and the home, but also good for teaching restaurant staff or lessons about food and cooking. Assembled by Romania PCV Jessica Brookins.
Describing wild animals powerpoint
This powerpoint is for teaching the component parts of animals, words such as “tail,” “fur,” and “scales.” Assembled by Romania PCV Jessica Brookins.
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