Khan Academy

Our students and teachers can make use of this site, the resources of which are available to anyone completely free of charge. More than 3.000 videos covering almost everything (science topics, humanities, etc..) Each video is especially purposed for viewing on the computer. Practice exercises are also available. http://www.khanacademy.org/

INEBI and BHINEBI. CLIL approach in the Basque Country

During our last visit to Barakaldo as members of our ARCE project, we have been introduced to these two basque CLIL programmes.

INEBI is a content based approach to teaching and learning second languages in primary education (primary 1 to 6). It provides material (organized by level for quick and easy access), that covers Social Science and Natural Science contents.

http://nagusia.berritzeguneak.net/hizkuntzak/inebi-1-1.php

BHINEBI provides material organized by subjects and level for quick and easy access in secondary education. It covers such contents as Geography, Visual Arts and Design, Philosophy, Religion, Politics, Science, Literature, History and Music.

http://nagusia.berritzeguneak.net/hizkuntzak/bhinebi-2.php

Exam English

This web site is for people studying for an English language exam. It contains Free Online Practice Tests for the most important international ESL/EFL exams: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Cambridge ESOL exams such as CAE, FCE, and PET. If you are not sure of your level, you can take a free level test.

http://www.examenglish.com/

Celebrating World Poetry Day

During its 30th session held in Paris in October-November 1999, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) decided to proclaim 21 March as World Poetry Day. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to "give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements".

UNESCO encourages the Member States to take an active part in celebrating the World Poetry Day, at both local and national level, with the active participation of National Commissions, NGOs and the public and private institutions concerned (schools, municipalities, poetic communities, museums, cultural associations, publishing houses, local authorities, etc.).

You can find many resources (video, blogs and others) to promote poetry in your EFL classroom on this page: http://community.eflclassroom.com/page/poetry-in-the-classroom

What matters in grammar teaching

Hermanamientos con centros de Estados Unidos y Canadá

La Consejería de Educación en EEUU y Canadá facilita, a través de esta página, un servicio de punto de encuentro de centros educativos con el objetivo de poner en contacto aquellos que deseen realizar un proyecto de hermanamiento tanto virtual como presencial. La adscripción de centros se realizará según la oferta/demanda y teniendo en cuenta las características reflejadas en la solicitud y el orden de llegada de las mismas.

Para solicitar un contacto con un centro, bastará cumplimentar la solicitud (ver la página) en el idioma del país de origen y remitirla a los siguientes correos electrónicos:

Programa piloto: Centros educativos con secciones bilingües de la Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia e ISAs (International Spanish Academies) de EEUU-Canadá:

hermanamientos.isas@educacion.es  

Centros educativos del resto del España y de EEUU-Canadá:

hermanamientos@educacion.es  

Los centros que deseen localizar posibles contactos de forma autónoma podrán utilizar los siguientes enlaces para acceder a directorios de centros:

Great Schools www.greatschools.org

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) www.cal.org/resources/databases.html

K-12 Directory of Schools.com www.k12directoryofschools.com

engVid

engVid brings you more than 300 video lessons by experienced native-speaker teachers. New classes are added three times a week, covering grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, TOEFL, and more. Lessons by topic and level (beginner, intermediate, advanced).

engVid on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/learn.english.free

On Twitter: @engVid

Home: http://www.engvid.com/

International Women's Day

On the occasion of 2012 International Women's Day, a beautiful video to promote gender equality in your schools. The UN theme for International Women’s Day 2012 is Empower Women – End Hunger and Poverty.

http://www.lunadreamproductions.com/#!__i-want-to

More about IWD in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day

http://internationalwomensday.com/

UN Women Secondary School Kit 2012

http://www.unifem.org.au/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=109789

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)

FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by contributing federal agencies. FREE was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President of the USA. The site was launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in November 2006. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm

World History & Other Stuff

YouTube channel for historical study curated by a teacher of World History. Playlists of historical significance for the use of his students.

http://www.youtube.com/user/worldhistoryteacher/videos?view=pl