Teaching Resources
Teacher’s Block: How To Make a Lesson Plan From a Blank Sheet
25th November 2020Especially at the beginning of your teaching career, right after you take your TEFL qualification, writing a lesson plan can be a scary thing. It is […]
Read More Teaching / Teaching English Online / Teaching Resources / Work and EmploymentHow to Make a Class Website with Google Sites
23rd November 2020Not many industries have changed in a very short period of time like Education, and this change is especially true for TEFL professionals. In some […]
Read More Multimedia & Digital / Teaching ResourcesOh boy, the beauties of teaching in Italy!
16th May 2018Before moving to southern Italy, I’d only ever taught Italians at summer schools in England, with the last occasion being at a medical university in […]
Read More Teaching ResourcesThe Power of English and the Chinese New Year
13th February 2018Chinese New Year is a truly magnificent period in the world calendar, bringing people together from all walks of life to unite in ceremonial festivity. […]
Read More Teaching ResourcesImprove Language Education With These 7 Tech Tools
6th December 2017Learning has taken a real jump forward, thanks to the tools created online for students and teachers alike. Aspects of learning are much easier, now […]
Read More Teaching / Teaching Resources / Teaching Writing SkillsMind Mapping to Engage Learners with the Textbook
27th November 2015Web tools and apps help teachers animate the content in textbooks and present the material in ways that every student can learn.
Read More Teaching ResourcesThe Oceans
20th October 2015In my first blog, The Night Sky, we considered language in terms of recognition. The examples we used were constellations, and the learning analogy was word maps. In this post I want to use a different space, the oceans, to reflect on the idea of boundaries...
Read More Teaching ResourcesStudents as Virtual Tour Guides
20th October 2015When we take our students on fieldtrips to visit a site, they often are curious about what they observe. We can foster this curiosity by getting students to use their mobile devices to...
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