We are continuing our ‘how to’ guides series to support teachers working with our course books and digital resources in a virtual classroom. This post focuses on a guide on how to teach remotely with for one of our American English courses for adult and young adult learners, Touchstone.
Teaching the Touchstone course in an online English classroom
This guide demonstrates how the course can be taught online. It includes suggestions for how to use the Touchstone Student’s Books and offers other supplementary materials to support your online classes.
This guide is based on a mixed model of remote teaching. We suggest using online platforms that allow:
- live lessons online
- discussion forums moderated by the teacher
- collaborative group tasks without the teacher
- individual self-access study
It is based on the principle that live lessons give students the chance to speak and ask questions about issues they’re encountering. Students can complete other tasks such as reading, listening and controlled practice exercises on their own and use the classroom to check answers.
Downloadable how-to guide for online teaching support
Take a look for yourself using ISSUU below, where you can download the guide and read at your own leisure. Just click on the download icon.
If you would like to find guides for other products or read articles to help you teach online from the Supporting Every Teacher series, click here.