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Missoula Childrens Theater will present Rapunzel in Bahrain on July 11.

EL Specialist Bob Schoenfeld completes the first week of the English Teachers summer professional development training with 25 Bahraini secondary school teachers.

Join American English for Educators on May 1st for the first session in American English Live Series 5. During this event, “Practical Applications for Critical Thinking in English Language Teaching and Learning,” presenter Leslie Opp-Beckman will share ways to determine how much critical thinking is already incorporated in your existing ELT materials and offer practical tips for weaving even more critical thinking into your courses.

Did you know that today was Earth Day? Have you done anything to help keep our environment clean lately? Check out this graphic for some fun and meaningful Earth Day idioms.

The podcast can be a tool to help English language learners use stories as a means of developing English language and critical thinking skills.

This Week: Salma Oubkkou – Fulbright Foreign Language Teacher (Morocco in USA). Based in South Carolina to teach Arabic to American university students, Salma Oubkkou found herself in the path of a major hurricane—and completely new weather phenomenon to her. Her experiences, including a full school evacuation, turned out to be a dramatic, but effective, way to cure her homesickness. Check it out here! eca.state.gov/2233.

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The next American English Live series will begin on May 1st! Be sure to head over to American English for Educators to register and tune in to hear from English language specialists!

Right now, it is Springtime in the U.S. and weather all across the country is starting to warm up. As a result, people are starting to go outside more--what are some fun outdoor activities that you like to do, or places that you like to visit? Here is some useful vocab from !

Register today for the American English E-Teacher MOOC on Teaching English to Young Learners! Once registered, be sure to complete the welcome survey so that our Regional English Language Office can follow up with you on other events in our region related to English language teaching! www.aeeteacher.org/Facilitated_MOOCs