Twee offers AI-powered tools for teachers. All tasks generated are aligned with CEFR levels. Create questions for any YouTube video. Choose to create multiple choice questions, open questions, or True/False statements. Twee can also help you brainstorm and generate dialogues, stories, letters or articles on any topic and for any level. It’s basically like ChatGPT, but it’s customized for teachers, and the guesswork with prompts is removed. Use my Coupon Code ENGLISHWITHJENNIFER to receive a 20% discount on your first purchase. (Disclosure: I earn commission from sales.)

Blue Canoe is a self-study app that helps non-native speakers improve their spoken English. There’s a heavy emphasis on pronunciation. The exercises and videos teach why stress and vowel sounds are so important in spoken communication. There’s a speech recognition feature, so you get feedback on what you can do to improve. The app guides you by giving you a short study plan each day. The people who designed Blue Canoe are all teachers with experience. They developed the Color Vowel® System, which is a helpful way to understand and remember new sounds by noticing their colors. Your brain learns to associate sounds with colors, and this will help you say vowel sounds correctly in words. The app also teaches you a hand-movement technique to help you become more aware of stressed syllables. If you’d like to work on your own awareness and accuracy with word stress and vowel sounds, you can use the app as a learner. You can also get a lot of teacher resources from Blue Canoe and even more from their sister company, colorvowel.com, which focuses on teacher education. You can learn techniques for teaching and practicing pronunciation with your students. They offer free bimonthly workshops that go beyond teaching pronunciation. You can visit their site colorvowel.com. Please use my affiliate link to sign up. iOS users can use this link. Android users may use the code JENNIFER20. (Disclosure: As an affiliate, I earn commission from sales.)

The selection of recorded conversations is large enough that you can choose speakers and topics that match you learners’ needs and interests. Just forewarn students that sometimes there are typos in the transcripts, but all is forgiven since the site is such a treasure.

Many teachers are familiar with Randall’s wonderful work, which he has generously been sharing for over a decade. On his well-maintained site, you’ll find a large collection of listening quizzes for general and academic study at all levels. The quizzes come with transcripts.

TED stands for Technology, Education, and Design. TED describes itself as “a nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading.” The project that provides a resource for English language teachers and learners is the award-winning TEDTalks. Many high profile people, such as Bill Gates and Michelle Obama, have given a TEDTalk. Topics range from innovations to the environment. Their YouTube channel TEDTalksDirector features these inspiring lectures. Closed captions and translated subtitles are available on their site.

The University of Texas at Austin has compiled professional development modules for foreign language teaching. From grammar to assessment, they cover the essentials. Through video and text, different teachers address 12 aspects of teaching.

TESOL has a number of certificate programs, including Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate.

The CALL Interest Section of TESOL holds 5-week professional development workshops every year starting in January. The sessions are free and open to all practicing teachers. TESOL membership is not required.