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World of Better Learning. The Top Ten Things I Wish I'd Known as a First-Year Teacher. English: Language of opportunity. David Bish breaks down blended learning ‹ EF Teacher Zone. 70 Pieces of New Teacher Advice The Vets Wish They'd Received. How do you describe to someone all the highs and lows that come with being a teacher?

How it can be the most challenging, baffling, maddening, heart-expanding, and rewarding career in the world? We asked our teacher friends on Instagram for their best new teacher advice, and their recommendations couldn’t be more spot on. Check it out, pass it on and be inspired! THE EXTRA MILE B2. 16 ways to improve your whiteboard work. I had my first lesson observation at the British Council Bangkok the other day. I still have a job, woohoo! I got some very surprising feedback from my line manager: ‘your board work was a real strength’. THE MIGHT OF ELICITATION TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING. Teachers to be efficient and effective, they are in need to be eloquent and articulate instructors.

In addition, the way they set the mood in uttering words and connecting their ideas to make a point should be outstandingly interesting and engaging. Teachers do not talk in the classroom to say anything. They speak for a purpose and there are often meaningful messages that should make students think and improve their level of perceiving themselves and their environment alike. However, what is not recommended from teachers in the classroom is lecturing. Teachers should not play a role of a lecturer. By Teachers, For Teachers... Secondary Education. Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. EFL Magazine - The Magazine for English Language Teachers. Monitoring Student Progress Archives. EdWeb: A professional online community for educators.

Comprehension domains with icons and thinking maps. The Adult Learning Theory - Andragogy - of Malcolm Knowles. Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1913 – 1997) was an American educator well known for the use of the term Andragogy as synonymous to adult education.

According to Malcolm Knowles, andragogy is the art and science of adult learning, thus andragogy refers to any form of adult learning. (Kearsley, 2010). The term andragogy can be supposedly equivalent to the term pedagogy. 9 Tips To Apply Adult Learning Theory to eLearning. Methodology. Social Skills and Emotional IQ. What is an initial situation and how to deal with it? The new generation curriculum came with new teaching terminology.

This latter was a source of confusion to us as teachers. Many items have been inserted including the initial situation. Personally, at the beginning , I didn’t understand what is this situation ? But after several analysis , I discovered that nothing is new , in fact , everything was dealt with before but in a different way. So , nothing is changing just the terminology that sets things clearer . Teaching methods. Learn about :Active learning definition, textbook listening, articles, phonetics,,classroom activities, management and some latins. Appendix C: The reflective practitioner. Signposts: a professional development resource for new teaching staff in the tertiary sector - Ako Aotearoa. This guide for new tertiary teachers is a series of one-page 'Signposts' explaining key ideas of teaching and learning.

It is the result of a project funded by the Ako Aotearoa Northern Hub. 40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies. 7 minutes read 40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book by Terry Heick You can’t watch a video like you read a book; the modalities couldn’t be much more different.

On the surface level a video uses light, color, sound, and moving images, with the potential for adding text and shape and color and light filters as overlays to communicate ideas, while the most basic text structures use alphanumeric symbols, paragraph and sentence structure, and an assortment of text features (e.g., white space, headings and subheadings, fonts, etc.) to convey their message. There is much, much more to it than this. The Interaction Between Video & Text Studies of the effectiveness of video in formal learning environments have yielded some confusing ideas, namely that content acquired via video consumption doesn’t easily transfer to the medium of text (Fisch 2002; Koran, Snow & McDonald 1971).

Why Kids Need to Move, Touch and Experience to Learn. When students use their bodies in the learning process, it can have a big effect, even if it seems silly or unconnected to the learning goal at hand.

Researchers have found that when students use their bodies while doing mathematical storytelling (like with word problems, for example), it changes the way they think about math. “We understand language in a richer, fuller way if we can connect it to the actions we perform,” said Sian Beilock, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. 6 Targets To Teach The Way The Brain Learns. ShareTwittPin Teach The Way The Brain Learns by Ramona Persaud When you’re standing in front of a classroom of students who’re not quite sure they even want to be in your class, much less pay attention to what’s being said, things like neuroscience, research studies, and teaching the way the brain learns are an abstraction.

Yet, brain-targeted teaching can engage and excite students because it taps into factors that stimulate the brain, grab the attention, and set the stage for learning. Dr. Krug continues, “Learning only occurs when the student can connect new information to old information. 20 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Learners. Kathy Perez has decades of experience as a classroom educator, with training in special education and teaching English language learners.

She also has a dynamic style. Sitting through her workshop presentation was like being a student in her classroom. She presents on how to make the classroom engaging and motivating to all students, even the most reluctant learners, while modeling for her audience exactly how she would do it. The experience is a bit jarring because it’s so different from the lectures that dominate big education conferences, but it’s also refreshing and way more fun. Perez says when students are engaged, predicting answers, talking with one another and sharing with the class in ways that follow safe routines and practices, they not only achieve more but they also act out less. “If we don’t have their attention, what’s the point?” Successful Classroom Management. 20 Tips to Help De-escalate Interactions With Anxious or Defiant Students. Anxiety is a huge barrier to learning and very difficult for educators to identify.

“When anxiety is fueling the behavior, it’s the most confusing and complicated to figure out,” Minahan said. Are Your Students Engaged? Don’t Be So Sure. By David Price It might be time we re-thought student engagement. Are we measuring the right things? Are we taking disengagement seriously enough? January is a time for resolutions. Perhaps educators, in 2014, need to resolve to better understand student engagement, challenge the myths around it, and make it a higher priority in their relationships with students. Let’s deal with the issue of the importance of engagement first. Critical Thinking: Basic Questions & Answers.

To think well is to impose discipline and restraint on our thinking-by means of intellectual standards — in order to raise our thinking to a level of "perfection" or quality that is not natural or likely in undisciplined, spontaneous thought. The dimension of critical thinking least understood is that of "intellectual standards. " Most teachers were not taught how to assess thinking through standards; indeed, often the thinking of teachers themselves is very "undisciplined" and reflects a lack of internalized intellectual standards. Question: Could you give me an example? Paul: Certainly, one of the most important distinctions that teachers need to routinely make, and which takes disciplined thinking to make, is that between reasoning and subjective reaction. 5 Common Back-to-School Mistakes Teachers Regret All Year. A Task-based approach. ELT ideas and resources. Language teaching methods. Listed below are brief summaries of some of the more popular second language teaching methods of the last half century.

For a more detailed analysis of the different methods, see Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Richards, J. and Rodgers, T (1986) CUP Cambridge. 6 Targets To Teach The Way The Brain Learns. Top 10 eLearning Content Development Companies For 2017. Obsidianlearning.com. Obsidianlearning.com. ESL Teacher Talk – ESL Podcasts for Teachers. Nik's Learning Technology Blog. You’re Unlikely To Find More Useful Articles To Help With Student Motivation Than These Two… We finished our second day of school yesterday. I’m sure it will be a great year, though even now it’s clear that in some cases I’ll be needing all my skills and knowledge on student motivation. Even though I’ve written three books and a lot more of the subject (see Best Posts On “Motivating” Students), I was motivated to develop my individual student motivation plans this morning by reading two excellent articles on the topic that came out this morning.

The first appeared in The Harvard Business Review. How Are Happiness and Learning Connected? As teachers, we also know that when students' affective filters or defenses are sky high, fight or flight responses will be modus operandi. A room full of defensive behaviors (withdrawn, angry) is a sad, unproductive place to teach and learn. Test Administration and Scoring. The Jigsaw Method. 16. 52 2 5 borzova. Full text of "Action Plan For Teachers English DL.ir" Pub Action Plan. In Search of a New Paradigm for Teaching English as an International Language - Canagarajah - 2014 - TESOL Journal. A framework for planning a listening skills lesson. In this article I intend to outline a framework that can be used to design a listening lesson that will develop your students' listening skills and look at some of the issues involved. The basic frameworkPre-listeningWhile listeningPost-listeningApplying the framework to a songSome conclusions The basic framework The basic framework on which you can construct a listening lesson can be divided into three main stages.

Pre-listening, during which we help our students prepare to listen.While listening, during which we help to focus their attention on the listening text and guide the development of their understanding of it.Post-listening, during which we help our students integrate what they have learnt from the text into their existing knowledge. ContactSummer2014. Mobile Learning and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture. I have jumped onto the Flipped Classroom craze to take the opportunity to propose and discuss an experiential model of education (ala John Dewey and Kurt Hahn), one that has experience at its core and provides learning options for all types of learners. In this model, the videos, as they are discussed in the flipped classroom. support the learning rather than drive it. TEC13 Day 01: Penny Ur - The role of research in English language teacher education. Teaching Tips – Common Core English with Ease. Presentations: Language expert. Learning Scientists Blog. A Note on Note-Taking.

New to Teaching. Untitled. Student Self-Assessment. How To Teach Directions. 6 Tips for Teaching Teenagers. How to Teach Fluency and Comprehension Side-by-Side. First Lesson Magic: How to Introduce Yourself. Teaching Resources: Grow In Your Pedagogy! ESL Teaching Tips and Theory. Teaching for Success: the Classroom and the World.

English Language Teaching Program. TESOL Strategies. Teaching English Online. Teaching Resources - TeachThought. The Digital Teacher. Common Confusions in TEFL. 20 Teaching Tips. The flipping librarian. Themes Literature. Edtech ideas. 8 Classic storytelling techniques for engaging presentations. LEARNING STYLES:Find out in 2 minutes. Teaching strategies. What Keeps Students Motivated to Learn? The Difference Between Praise and Feedback.

What the Future of Learning Might Look Like. 13 Strategies to Improve Student Classroom Discussions. 12 Questions To Promote Self-Knowledge In Students. Do Now Meets CFU: Taryn Pritchard's Notes to Self. Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding. 5 Learning Techniques Psychologists Say Kids Aren’t Getting.

How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies. Classroom Management: 10 Ways to Deal with Difficult Students. Teaching Guide: Using Student Peer Review. Effective Feedback. Encouraging self correction. WHEN LEARNING HOW TO LEARN LEADS TO EFFECTIVE TEACHING. SCAFFOLDING : AN INTERACTIONAL SUPPORT IN TEACHING. INSPIRING TIPS IN TEACHING FOR BEGINNER TEACHERS. First-Day-of-School Surveys: Getting to know your students starts with right questions. Writing was never difficult : Process writing.