All posts – Page 2

2 February, 2018 Zahra Zuhair All posts Lower Secondary

Literacy Lessons for Lower Secondary Learners

Zahra Zuhair The right approach When I first started teaching literacy for lower secondary Arabic speakers, one of my biggest challenges was lesson planning. Literacy learners usually work at a slower pace but lower secondary...

2 January, 2018 Efi Tzouri All posts Primary

Teaching without Borders – Developing Strong Bonds with Refugee Children

Efi Tzouri I have always believed our choices are predetermined by our past. Not as a kind of superstition or destiny, but as a footprint that has been marked in our DNA. I am convinced...

5 December, 2017 Sarah Findlay All posts Early Years Lower Secondary Primary Upper Secondary

Dealing effectively with challenging parents, care-givers and home contacts

Sarah Findlay For the most part, parents / care-givers and educators share a common goal. We eye-roll at the silliness, smile at the creativity, take joy in the successes and marvel when expectations are exceeded....

4 October, 2017 Bruno Andrade All posts Lower Secondary Upper Secondary Comments (1)

Exploratory Approaches with Secondary Learners & Teacher Well Being

Bruno Andrade What have you been pedagogically pondering about recently? What actions could you take to improve your own teacher well being? I am one of the co-founders of BrELT, a community dedicated to professional...

13 September, 2017 Amanda Davies All posts Comments 2

Six key questions for Early Years providers

Amanda Davies Parents / caregivers increasingly seek to start their children on the road to learning English at a younger and younger age, and to meet the demand, providers are responding by offering Early Years...

3 August, 2017 Emily Herd All posts Early Years Primary Comments 4

Creating high-quality materials for early years and primary learners

Emily Hird I’ll let you into a secret. Many people in the ELT profession think writing materials for early years and primary learners must be a doddle. There are so few words on the page...

1 July, 2017 Jennifer Dobson All posts Primary Comments 4

Online Safeguarding in Primary ELT – Why you shouldn’t post a child’s face online

Jen Dobson ‘Safety first’ should be a familiar mantra for all who work with primary learners. Making the most of educational technology and online tools in the primary ELT classroom brings considerable responsibility as regards...

1 June, 2017 Virginia Parker All posts CPD Lower Secondary Upper Secondary

Preventing Plagiarism in Secondary ELT – A Case for Learner Training

Virginia Parker Plagiarism is, unfortunately, a part of just about every secondary English language course, no matter in which country you work, and no matter if your context is a language school, an international school,...

1 May, 2017 Shay Coyne All posts CPD Lower Secondary Primary Upper Secondary Comments 6

IATEFL YLTSIG Pre-Conference Event: 21st Century Values Education in TEYLs (Glasgow, 3rd April, 2017)

Shay Coyne The theme of the 2017 YLTSIG Pre-Conference Event (PCE) was Values Education, an area increasingly in the spotlight as we become more globally interconnected. The YLTSIG PCE did more than just showcase Values...

31 March, 2017 Rachael Pooley All posts Lower Secondary Upper Secondary

Raising Secondary Learners’ EDI Awareness in Closed Contexts – Challenges & Opportunities

Rachael Pooley In this blog post, I share experiences of teaching secondary young learners in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Having taught in various contexts in Asia for 15 years, these two particular learning and teaching...