Thought-provoking articles and classroom ideas for English teachers who never stop learning.
What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
Imagine: you’ve got everything planned and prepped for your primary English class. Your slides are ready, bursting with activities to revise earlier learning and take you and the class through today’s lesson. The video listening from the online coursebook is cued up and you’ve found a perfect, interactive online game you can all play together at the end of the lesson.
That’s when the power cut happens.
Read this postDiscover innovative strategies to give young learners more opportunities to speak English in the classroom. From encouraging repetition and multiple answers, to letting students take control and understand what they are saying, this guide provides practical tips to enhance their language skills. Dive in and transform your teaching approach today!
Read this postReading is a superpower that unlocks almost everything in life, from tackling schoolwork to allowing us to escape and explore imaginary universes. Yet, here in Spain, our students' reading comprehension levels are struggling to keep up with the rest of Europe. Let’s take a look at what’s happening and how we as teachers can help to turn things around.
Read this postIn this article, Richard Moon shares some thoughts about using AI in the classroom and how he has been using it to engage learners and cut down on preparation time while also considering some of AIs drawbacks.
Read this postAre you looking for a break from your regular lessons? The calendar is filled with important and quirky dates that are commemorated all around the world. These special days are a great opportunity to plan something different as well as educational for your class.
Read this postClasses have always been, and will continue to be, heterogeneous. In every classroom, educators encounter students with diverse backgrounds, abilities, and interests, readiness levels and learning preferences. Yet, not until quite recently, have many teachers started to admit the importance of finding out teaching strategies and techniques that address heterogeinity.
Read this postIn this month’s blog post, Richard Moon shows us how to use some of the free teacher resources in our Go Beyond ELT hub and develop them into mini-projects with a focus on sustainability. Use your students’ natural curiosity about the world around them to improve their English.
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