Effective classroom management is an essential skill for Young Learner (YL) teachers. This post provides some of my top tips for developing positive classroom management strategies that you can incorporate into your routine.
Every teacher knows that without…
The teaching of English as a second or foreign language industry has not only grown in numbers all over the world over the past three or four decades, but has developed in different directions, catering for different needs and teaching situations.
Looking specifically at the…
Tamara Jones, co-author of Q: Skills for Success Second Edition, joins us on the blog today to review her TESOL talk about flipping the classroom using content aligned videos. I think we can all agree that while teaching is rewarding and most of us love what we do, it can…
Recordações de uma professora de inglês Fui criada no meio de pessoas que sempre viram o estudo como fonte de prazer e entretenimento. Mesmo diante de dificuldades, nos ajudavam uns aos outros e a lição de casa ou a preparação para uma prova tornava-se uma…
Have you asked yourself lately if you are challenging your students enough? Are you giving them opportunities to think for themselves, learn by doing and even make mistakes? After all, this is also part of the learning process.
In this blog post, I am going to reflect on…
Making the shift from being a general English teacher to Business English Teacher - Louise Potter
27/06/2017
Many English teachers today feel terribly intimidated about teaching Business English since they are not expects in business studies and business vocabulary. I can understand their fears, however, what teachers need to understand is that their main role is to guide their…
Professional development demands making choices, sometimes very hard, sometimes very easy ones. The first choice is deciding to follow the path of growth in the career we decided to pursue in education. As Wallace (1991) mentioned, development has to be done by the teacher…
The earliest grammars of English were, for obvious reasons, based on written models of the language. In the absence of any way to record everyday speech, written texts provided a solid base upon which scholarly works could be built. In addition, both grammarians and…
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Together we stand, divided we fall” Perhaps the ELT world was not exactly what Mr. Waters bore in mind when he wrote this song for Pink Floyd. Nonetheless, I do believe that the message is meant for all of us, citizens of the world, language…
