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Each month, we feature a different guest blogger to share their ideas, experiences and reflections of teaching children and teenagers English in diverse contexts around the world.
Six things Michael Jordan taught me about the upper secondary classroom
Sofia Leone After recently being introduced to Netflix due to the current pandemic, one of the first trailers that popped up on my screen was for “The Last Dance”: a 10-part documentary that tells the story of the Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan playing a lead role...
No Reason to Stay Inside – The outdoors as a primary English language classroom, Heidi Haavan Grosch
Outdoor learning in Norway and beyond Learning outdoors has been a natural part of Norwegian society since long before the computer screen took over the classroom. Here, it is very common to bundle up babies and park them outside in the fresh air to nap or take school...
Doing Projects with Secondary English Classes, Olha Madylus
Worlds apart It’s amazing how different an upper primary English class can be to a lower secondary class. Not only is there a lot more movement, songs and play in the primary class, there also seems much more time for extended tasks like projects. Secondary classes in...
Online activities that really work with teenagers, Sandy Millin
At my school, as with many schools around the world, we have had to move all of our teaching online very quickly. As I write this, it’s not even one month since we all became Zoom beginners, but even so our teachers have experimented with all kinds of activities. Here...
Bringing diversity into the secondary English classroom, Ilá Coimbra and James Taylor
A learning environment inclusive of diverse teenage student identities, benefits everyone in the secondary English classroom. Research has shown that a lack of representation and social categorization is linked to bullying amongst teenagers, since students might...
Primary and secondary English teacher education in Brazil – Gabriel Ribeiro, Guilherme Pacheco, Leticia Moraes, Renata Borges
In Brazil, there are 2.5 million teachers who teach 50 million students in 200,000 schools. This demonstrates the magnitude of the educational system. Therefore, we are not claiming that everything in this blog post reflects the reality of the whole country. However,...
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