TEFL Site Awards

The official website for Global, Macmillan’s new multimedia English learning course, is full of useful resources for modern teachers, including elessons, videos, teaching tips and international blogs. Global is an interactive course designed for adult learners interested in engaging with the English language in an authentic, often unscripted, way. (more…)

This EFL Ning, created by David Deubelbeiss in 2007, connects over 11,000 English teachers from around the world. Teachers can create their own web page and build a large online network of support. The site becomes more useful each day as new members join and add their own lessons, links, videos, and stories. As the site’s motto suggests “When one teaches, two learn.” (more…)

This resource site for teachers, developed by Sean Banville (Breaking News English), offers dozens of English lesson plans on a variety of holiday themes. Each month the featured lessons are placed at the top of the site, making it easy for teachers to plan supplementary activities ahead of time. The holiday lessons are popular with students because they extend beyond the usual Christmas and Halloween themes. (more…)

There are a lot of new ways for teachers to create personalized tests and materials for learners online. Lingt stands out for two reasons. Firstly, it is straight forward. Teachers and learners should have no problem figuring out how to use it. All you need to do is give your students the URL to your Lingt classroom (you receive this when you sign up).The activities and quizzes you create are stored on site and you can offer individual feedback quickly and easily. (more…)

If you are thinking about breaking into the TEFL industry, you may want to subscribe to this new blog by a retired TEFLler. Ted of TEFL Newbie offers the “straight scoop” on what it takes to survive what is sometimes described by veteran teachers as the TEFL trenches. While there are many TEFL bloggers with impressive archives to sort through, TEFL Newbie offers a less overwhelming starting point. (more…)

Keeping up with the times is always at the top of a teacher’s to-do list. With technology changing so quickly, however, many teachers find it difficult to stay on top of the new tools and sites designed to make teaching easier. Russell Stannard, an award winning ELT Professional, makes it simple for teachers with his free training videos. As well as offering suggestions for tools and sites for teachers, Russell uses (more…)

Some people are born to make lists. Larry Ferlazzo, a high school English language teacher in California, is one of those people. His blog is full of lists that can save teachers, bloggers, students, and website owners loads of time. (more…)

Published by Macmillan Education Group, One Stop English holds true to its name. The site offers thousands of resources including teacher support, lesson sharing, and competitions. There is a lot to discover but if you are short on time and know what you are looking for you can use the Quick (more…)

This popular blog, created by freelance TESOL teacher Karenne Sylvester, is written specifically for Teachers of English who are looking for tips on how to teach speaking. Karenne’s writing has a conversational tone and her posts offer up-to-date lessons and reflections that (more…)

Lesson Writer is a free website that allows teachers to create customized lesson plans and exercises based on text and readings from the Internet. Teachers simply copy and paste a piece of text into Lesson Writer and the program analyzes the text (more…)