Writing Creatively to Learn Adverbs
Writing Creatively to Learn Adverbs When it comes to grammar instruction, teachers often struggle with these questions: Do I teach my students the grammar rules explicitly and give them worksheets […]
Critical Readers in the Misinformation Age
Critical Readers in the Misinformation Age Did you know that Chicago was the most dangerous city in the US in 2014? I didn’t. I would have thought it was some […]
It Never Got Weird Enough for Me…So I Made It Weirder
It Never Got Weird Enough for Me…So I Made It Weirder It can get weird fast, teaching English, but as Hunter S. Thompson said, “It never got weird enough for […]
Using Personal Stories as Pedagogical Resources
Using Personal stories as pedagogical resources What do you do when you’ve been using the same grammar practice activities, worksheets, funny pictures, and PowerPoint games for a long time and […]
Reflections on My Experience of the CELTA Course
Reflections on My Experience of the CELTA Course Why did I complete a CELTA course? Having decided to stop working as an assistant head teacher in a challenging school in […]
Et tu, Brute: A TESOL Tragedy
Et tu, Brute: A TESOL Tragedy Last month I took four weeks to complete one of the more reputed TESOL qualification courses available (no, not that one, the other one…).The […]
Choosing and Using Focus Skills in EFL Teaching
Choosing and Using Focus Skills Recently, I wrote about the importance of having a strong learning objective when you plan a lesson. The learning objective that I described was built […]
Using language notebooks with young learners
Using language notebooks with young learners As teachers, we always want our young students to be more effective at recording language. How often do we feel a sense of hopelessness, […]
Critical Pedagogy – Cultural Capital
Cultural Capital Cultural capital refers to all the non-financial assets that aid social mobility. It’s all those little extras that help people change their position and situation in the socio-economic […]
How To Use A Timer In The Classroom
How To Use A Timer In The Classroom Most instructors want to get better at using technology in the classroom. However, sometimes the best technologies are the simplest ones. One […]