Teaching English in Rural Japan: 5 Things That Caught Me Off Guard
Teaching English in Rural Japan: 5 Things That Caught Me Off Guard I lived in Japan for seven years until November 2019 where I started off working in a fishing […]
Multi-Level ESL Classes: Teaching Strategies
Multi-Level ESL Classes: Teaching Strategies When I began my first position teaching English as a Second Language, I hadn’t anticipated some of the challenges I would face teaching multi-level ESL […]
TOEFL Teacher: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores
TOEFL Teacher: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores Whatever a student’s ability, if they are unfamiliar with the strategies required to perform well at a particular examination, they […]
Cambridge University Press: Dedicated Teacher Award
Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, has awarded its 2021 Dedicated Teacher Award to Annamma Lucy, a social studies teacher working in Dubai. Teachers are […]
Constructivist Theory, Connection and Rubrics
Teachers are “vehicles of power”. Teachers must provide circumstances for students to accomplish empowerment. It is only possible when we as teachers take a critical stance to our activities. Most […]
How to Launch and Run English Schools in Japan
How to Successfully Launch and Run English Schools in Japan with Ian Simpson In this episode, Ian Simpson tells us how to successfully launch and run English schools in Japan. […]
Learning Enhancers and Effective Learning Strategies
Learning Enhancers and Effective Learning Strategies Effective learning strategies have always been a part of my professional reflection. I have lost count of the times I have tried to clarify […]
Using Checklists in the Classroom
Using Checklists in the Classroom Explicit teaching is good teaching. The less students have to guess in terms of what they are expected to do, the more brainpower they can […]
How to Use Europeana Collections in Your Classroom?
Are you interested in integrating digital cultural heritage into your English language classroom? Do you think that cultural heritage is an integral part of every classroom? If your answer is […]
Teaching ESL Speaking to Upper-Intermediate Students
Teaching ESL Speaking to Upper-Intermediate Students For teachers involved in the learning and preparatory process with students of upper-intermediate level, aiming at a B1/ B2 degree, the challenge of overcoming […]