Thought-provoking articles and classroom ideas for English teachers who never stop learning.
Send your Students into their Cambridge Exams with Confidence: Exam Strategies and Activities
Exam season is upon us once again and many of our students will be taking Cambridge exams to demonstrate their level and consolidate the learning they’ve built up throughout the year. Secondary students might be taking the A2 Key or B1 Preliminary, or one of Cambridge’s higher-level qualifications such as B2 First for Schools or the C1 Advanced.
Read this postWe left this first part of this blog post facing a difficult issue: you can’t expect students to read extensively until they have a reasonable vocabulary; yet the best way to expand one’s vocabulary is by reading extensively. Here’s how we solve this enigma.
Read this postA third of today’s jobs require public speaking. However, the idea of expressing oneself in front of an audience is terrifying for most people! You can give your students a vital life skill by integrating presentations into your English class.
Read this postThis blog examines the importance of routines, norms and consequences in creating strong learning environments. With these essential educational elements, students feel supported and secure and are able to learn more deeply and fluidly.
Read this postWhy are the positive or negative messages we repeat to ourselves so powerful? In this blog, we’ll consider concrete ways to reprogram our beliefs in our own potential and that of our students. We’ll see how science illustrates exactly how we can achieve virtually anything we want through effort and determination.
Read this postDuring the pandemic of 2020, teachers all over the world had to prioritise their choices in order to be able to connect with their students. In this blog we will look at the conclusions they reached and how, after deep reflection, their students’ emotional well-being was determined to be most important of all.
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