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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.
Primary and secondary English teacher education in Brazil
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,...
Using picturebooks in primary English language teaching
Every year thousands of high-quality children’s picturebooks are published in English. They offer a rich, but often under-used, flexible and motivating resource for primary English language teaching (PELT). The fusion of the best in trade publishing combined...
Weaving Sustainability into the Primary ELT Curriculum
Making sustainability more than an ‘add on’ This is really crucial in my opinion. By embedding sustainability into a wide variety of topics across the curriculum, children better understand its importance and see the links between sustainability and various aspects of...
Activities with Purpose – How I build upper secondary learners’ self-esteem
For the past eight years, I have worked closely with upper secondary learners in southern Italy. It was clear from the outset that the only way I could make an ELT career work for me was if I could make it meaningful. After numerous conversations with teens over the...
Professional Development Programmes for Primary English Language Teachers
Context Setting Primary English language teacher development programmes are as unique and diverse as the teachers who attend them and the teacher educators who deliver them. That said, in this blog post, I will aim to identify some success factors for programme design...
The Thrills of TED-Ed Videos in Upper-Secondary English Classrooms
Using animated TED-Ed videos in upper-secondary English language classrooms is engaging, interactive and enjoyable. As an English teacher in Myanmar, I have been using TED-Ed videos for almost five years. Upper secondary teenagers in Myanmar are rarely taught 21st...
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