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Doing Projects with Secondary English Classes

Doing Projects with Secondary English Classes

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...
Online activities that really work with teenagers

Online activities that really work with teenagers

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...
Bringing diversity into the secondary English classroom

Bringing diversity into the secondary English classroom

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...
Primary and secondary English teacher education in Brazil

Primary and secondary English teacher education in Brazil

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,...
IATEFL Liverpool YLTSIG PCE: Building bridges and finding common ground in TEYLs

IATEFL Liverpool YLTSIG PCE: Building bridges and finding common ground in TEYLs

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...
Through others we become ourselves: guiding mediation in secondary ELT

Through others we become ourselves: guiding mediation in secondary ELT

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...
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