Back to School: Motivating Learning Online for all Students
While most teachers are now more confident teaching with technology and online, many teachers are still reporting that student motivation remains a challenge. In this interactive webinar, I explore the concept of motivation and highlights the importance of shifting away from teachers motivating learners to student-generated motivation and found ways to ignite the fire from within.
Learning for themselves: putting the learner in the driver’s seat
For teachers of Young Learners I was invited by Macmillan Education to speak about enhancing Learner Autonomy, a key skills for successful learning, in August 2020 when we all returned to our ‘new normal’ classrooms for the year… Back to school or not back to school, that seems to be the question in these challenging […]
Supplementary activities for English language teaching: large classes and low resource contexts
This teachers’ guide is specifically written for teachers of large classes. Because we all know that large classes can be a huge challenge, but we believe that even small changes can make a difference and that, over time, many small changes can make a big positive difference for students. A unique feature of the book […]
How to implement guided reading
This teachers‘ guide introduces you to guided reading. Guided reading is a common differentiated teaching approach used in the young learners’ classroom to develop learners’ reading skills. It aims at helping all learners become confident and effective readers, starting at the level they are at. Guided reading is used to close the gap between shared […]
Vocabulary matters. A talk and vocabulary-focused approach for rich guided reading
This teacher’s guide highlights the importance of explicitly teaching vocabulary in the young learner classroom. The understanding of written text means that we need to move our learners from using social, everyday vocabulary to talk to recognising and using more abstract vocabulary used in writing. Learners need extensivevocabulary building, multiple exposures to the new vocabulary, […]
KEYS to guide your tech choices
Normally, when institutes move to online or blended programs six to nine months of preparation have gone into designing appropriate learning systems (Hodges et. al, 2020) and enabling teachers with technology-enhanced teaching skills. As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, most of us were thrown into online teaching overnight, and herein lies the danger that […]
Reflecting in times of Covid-19: Keep calm and keep GROW-ing
This blog, written for Cambridge University Press series World of Better Learning, explores the benefits of reflective practice. Learn the benefits of reflecting, to promote a self-improving culture of learning and increase your ability to adapt during these unpredictable times. Click on the link below to read the blog, published in June 2020. Reflecting in […]
Engaging teens? It’s not all about technology…
Most teens are more digitally literate then we will ever be, so don’t get hung up on overloading your teens with the latest cutting-edge apps and tools whilst teaching online. Engaging teens online is not all about technology… If you want to read more about my 4Cs, check out this link on OneStopEnglish for my […]
The way forward…
After many weeks of working online, I thought it would be useful to reflect and look back in order to take forward what I’ve learned from this sudden change. The tips below have been written with conducting webinars in mind; I mean, I’ve been conducting webinars for years now but I never had the pleasure […]
Teaching Online- KEYS
As the current situation continues, many of us are coming to the realization that online face-to-face teaching, or rather remote teaching, might well be the new normal for, at least, the coming months. Normally, when institutes move to online or blended programs six to nine months of preparation have gone into designing appropriate learning systems […]