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Free teleprompter. Free teleprompter. Activities for Learners. Reading lesson plans: Mobile phones. English news and easy articles for students of English. ESL Lesson Plan on the Burka - Breaking News English Lesson. 1.

ESL Lesson Plan on the Burka - Breaking News English Lesson

WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words... 'bank' ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ and 'robber'. ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ Teaching English online: opportunities and pitfalls. Sylvia Guinan, online English teacher, website editor and winner of the British Council TeachingEnglish blog award, walks us through the opportunities and pitfalls of teaching online in one of our top five articles of all time, illustrated by artist Jamie Johnson. There are many different things to consider when it comes to online teaching. The good news is that online teaching opens up new levels of creativity and opportunity for you as a teacher. In a way, it drives you to surpass yourself and focus more on best practice as well as innovation.

7 Secrets for ESL Learners FREE ebook. Online courses from British Council. Free resources to learn English. TeachingEnglish. TeachingEnglish. Action Research - Stop, Start, Continue. I get students to brainstorm all the kind of things I as a teacher do and things which we do in class. Some examples might be: speaking in pairsplaying gamesexplaining grammarsetting homework. Willy Cardoso: Classroom based teacher development. About the webinar Recorded in 2013, this webinar with Willy Cardoso looked at several aspects of classroom-based teacher development: Approaches to teacher development that start from inside the classroom How to involve learners in our development Self- and peer-observation tools How to increase the validity (and currency) of our classroom-based knowledge Critical teacher development (or ‘beware of TEFL slogans’) About the speaker Willy Cardoso has taught English for 12 years in Brazil, UK and Spain, written hundreds of articles on language education in his blog Authentic Teaching, and recently co-authored Real Communication: Culture Reading (Macmillan China).

Willy Cardoso: Classroom based teacher development

TeachingEnglish. Схема анализа урока. Observation Tasks. Classroom Observation Tasks: A Resource Book for Language Teachers and Trainers by Ruth Wajnryb. 13 TEFL Observation Tasks. It’s amazing how much you can learn from observations.

13 TEFL Observation Tasks

Unfortunately, in my experience, many language schools use observation primarily as an assessment tool rather than for professional development purposes. This post describes a range of simple but useful TEFL observation tasks. They can be used by a Director of Studies, teacher trainers on TEFL or professional development courses, and by teachers observing their peers. Also, some of them could also be used by teachers who record and then analyse their own teaching. 70 Humorous Stories and How to Tell Them. NOTE: There is some R-rated language in this area.

70 Humorous Stories and How to Tell Them

Before reading further, please be aware of this! I am not a comedian, but I am a professional ex-salesman and teacher. Crazy animals and other activities for teaching young learners. Creativity in the English language classroom. Using students' first languages in the classroom. Summary: Using students' first languages in the classroom Whether it is better to use the students' first language (L1) in class or have an English-only policy is something that has been much debated and that has seen many changes of fashion over the years. It seems, therefore, that the only sensible reaction an individual teacher can take to this controversial subject is to neither accept nor reject the use of L1, but simply to search for an ideal level of its use in each individual class- maybe changing its use as the class progresses in level or changes in other ways.

Here are some tips to help you spot if you have found your own perfect level of L1 use in your classes and how to adjust the level if you haven't reached that point yet. Why are so Many of our Teachers and Schools so Successful?: John Hattie at TEDxNorrkoping. What makes a good teacher great? 30 Ways to Arrange Students for Group Work. Students participating in group work is a key ingredient in student learning.

30 Ways to Arrange Students for Group Work

When students are able to verbalize their ideas, listen to one another, share authentic discussion, and create common products, they are much more actively engaged in the learning process. However, there is a multitude of ways that a teacher can arrange students for group work, and the effective teacher may choose to implement different strategies for different outcomes. Football World Cup.

Nine out of ten parents worry about kids online − yet few act. The internet is arguably the new frontier for communication, collaboration and business but, with criminals also using it for ill-gotten gains, it does have its bad parts too. And this is making life difficult for parents struggling to keep up with their child’s technology obsession. In bygone eras, parents’ concerns over their children were relatively simple: they worried if they were healthy, happy and socially adept at school and other challenging environments.

As they got older, they considered too the challenges of new relationships, new careers and living quarters. However, while these issues are still valid, today’s parents find themselves facing a whole host of new issues, many of which arise from their son or daughter’s use of the internet such as social media and privacy. All of these services have many good qualities, but they’ve also given rise to cyberbullying – suffered by as many as one in four students in the US – revenge porn and financial and ID theft. Myths about child bullying, school bullying, school phobia, no blame etc. This is the original Bullyonline website developed by the late Tim Field.

Myths about child bullying, school bullying, school phobia, no blame etc

It is provided as a testament to his pioneering work. Visit our new website. Bullying In The Classroom: The Ultimate Guide To Stopping It. Chances are one of your students is being bullied.

Bullying In The Classroom: The Ultimate Guide To Stopping It

And if you’re like most teachers, you’re either unaware of it or you don’t know how to stop it. This is why bullying has become epidemic. The teacher is the only one in position to put a stop to it, and he or she is ill-equipped to do so. This isn’t another article about teaching manners or preaching respect. Resources to Fight Bullying and Harassment at School. Bullying Prevention Curriculum Visit the websites below to find videos, activities, and lesson plans you can use in the classroom: For more planning tips, the following Edutopia posts are good to reference: Student Voice and Leadership.

Resources to Fight Bullying and Harassment at School

Shaping Tech for the Classroom. The biggest question about technology and schools in the 21st century is not so much "What can it do?

Shaping Tech for the Classroom

" but, rather, "When will it get to do it? " We all know life will be much different by 2100. Tools for Educators - Dice Maker. From Tools for Educators: Create your own custom dice with pictures, text or both images and text.

Tools for Educators - Dice Maker

You can make dice with just your text or choose an image category below to make dice with those images. (See below for some ideas on how to use the dice.) Make dice with text only. RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms. Structured Groups: Using Structured Groups In The Classroom Video. Register Now and join a community of a million educators. Take 30 seconds to register (it's free!) And: TeachThought: We Grow Teachers. The Reading Life: Short Stories. Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future.

Первые шаги учителя в школе. Cross cultural communication. Cross Cultural Communication. Вход - Почта Mail.Ru. Ideas for songs to teach English grammar - TeflTunes.com. BBC Voices - Accents and dialects. British Accents and Dialects. Culture - the fifth language skill. Culture - the fifth language skill. American vs. British English - Vowel Sounds - Pronunciation differences. English Pronunciation Lesson. Differences between British and American English. Завтрак. What to consider when teaching English in large classes. Whole Child Development Is Undervalued.

School Radio - Nursery songs and rhymes. Music and Movement Activities. 45+ Quick & Easy Kids Crafts that ANYONE Can Make! How to teach children English using illustrated storybooks. Подвижные игры для детей 2-3 лет. Физическое развитие. Занимательное рисование для детей 5-7 летenglishlittle. УРОКИ РИСОВАНИЯ ДЛЯ ДЕТЕЙ. List of 30 Top Environmental Concerns. Solutions To Environmental Problems: Institute of Environmental Sustainability: Loyola University Chicago. B480 Special Need Publication A4 V5 Final MR. I Said I Want the Red Bowl! Responding to Toddlers' Irrational Behavior. Symbolic play and language development. The cognitive benefits of play: Effects on the learning brain.

Why play-based learning? (free article) - Early Childhood Australia. Importance of play for babies & children. How young children learn English through play. ZERO TO THREE.

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