by Olha Madylus | May 1, 2020 | All posts, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
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...
by Sandy Millin | Apr 10, 2020 | Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
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...
by Ila Coimbra and James Taylor | Mar 6, 2020 | CPD, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
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...
by Troika | Feb 8, 2020 | CPD, Lower Secondary, Primary, Upper Secondary
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,...
by Susan Holden | Jun 12, 2019 | All posts, CPD, Early Years, Lower Secondary, Primary, Upper Secondary
PCE memories – what remains? In many ways, a Pre-Conference Event (PCE) acts as a bridge between its participants’ ‘outside’ lives and what they are about to experience in the coming conference. In the days after that conference, it can often be forgotten, overlaid by...
by Dirk Lagerwaard | Apr 1, 2019 | All posts, CPD, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Picture this scene: thirty teenagers, no coursebook and equipped only with a board marker… “Just make sure they all end up speaking in English” said the head teacher of the school where I was working in Spain. I was tasked with teaching communicative language lessons...
