Thought-provoking articles and classroom ideas for English teachers who never stop learning.
Helpful hints for better reading comprehension
Reading 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 postA third of today’s jobs require public speaking. However, the idea of expressing oneself in front of an audience is terrifying for most people! You can give your students a vital life skill by integrating presentations into your English class.
Read this postThis blog presents ideas on how you can assess your students in face-to-face and/or digital learning environments. We may not be aware of how much information we receive from our students when we are physically with them, but these subconscious or semi-conscious formative assessments are lost the minute we see our students through a computer screen. There are ways to compensate for this loss, and this blog will give you concrete tools that will help you to realise effective evaluations of your students' progress.
Read this postThis blog presents ideas on how you can redistribute the materials you give in either face-to-face or online classes to take more advantage of synchronous classes with your students. Assigning lower-level thinking activities outside of class is beneficial to everyone, as during synchronous classes your students are more prepared to participate in higher-level cognitive activities, and your lessons on the whole become more meaningful.
Read this postThis blog examines the importance of routines, norms and consequences in creating strong learning environments. With these essential educational elements, students feel supported and secure and are able to learn more deeply and fluidly.
Read this postA challenging start to the new term can be made easier with the Richmond Essential Start materials.
Read this postWhy are the positive or negative messages we repeat to ourselves so powerful? In this blog, we’ll consider concrete ways to reprogram our beliefs in our own potential and that of our students. We’ll see how science illustrates exactly how we can achieve virtually anything we want through effort and determination.
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