[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teacher as Researcher: The Ultimate Professional Development Young Learners and Grammar: How to Do It Right Create a Safe, Kind and Engaging School Climate Where All Students Thrive (McGraw-Hill Education Video) Teaching listening – Listening as Acquisition Craig Thaine’s ‘Maintaining Motivation: Engaging learners… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4
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Teacher as Researcher: The Ultimate Professional Development (Edutopia)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teacher researchers pause each morning as they walk into their classrooms and ask, “What will my students teach me today?” To answer that question, they listen to and watch their students engage in authentic work; collect work samples, photographs, and transcripts to document… Continue reading Teacher as Researcher: The Ultimate Professional Development (Edutopia)
Young Learners and Grammar: How to Do It Right (BusyTeacher)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Of all the things we teach, most would agree grammar is one of the most challenging. The reason is because it is not easy to motivate students, especially young students to learn grammar . Simply sitting kids down and explaining rules is not… Continue reading Young Learners and Grammar: How to Do It Right (BusyTeacher)
Create a Safe, Kind and Engaging School Climate Where All Students Thrive (McGraw-Hill Education Video)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Three leading nonprofits in the field of school climate and kindness team up to provide insight, inspiration, evaluation tools, and practical tips for your school to help encourage collaboration among faculty and staff and motivate students to stay engaged.
Teaching listening – Listening as Acquisition (Cambridge Conversations)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Our discussion so far has dealt with one perspective on listening, namely, listening as comprehension. Everything we have discussed has been based on the assumption that the role of listening in a language program is to help develop learners’ abilities to understand things… Continue reading Teaching listening – Listening as Acquisition (Cambridge Conversations)
Craig Thaine’s ‘Maintaining Motivation: Engaging learners through the course’ Webinar Replay
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Motivated learners are more likely to engage in the learning process both inside and outside the classroom. However, it is sometimes difficult to determine exactly what it is that motivates learners. Is it their individual desire to learn, or is it the… Continue reading Craig Thaine’s ‘Maintaining Motivation: Engaging learners through the course’ Webinar Replay
Encouraging ESL learner independence (OUP ELT Blog)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] The student-centered approach is becoming more common as teachers realize the benefits of being a facilitator in the classroom, encouraging students to take responsibility for their own learning in collaborative tasks and discussions. Of course, as a teacher you decide what happens in… Continue reading Encouraging ESL learner independence (OUP ELT Blog)
Bottom-up decoding: listening (OUP ELT Blog)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] In a previous post I explained some of the reasons why we should focus on bottom-up strategies for listening and reading. In this post, I’d like to show how this might work in practice for the skill of listening. Even learners who have… Continue reading Bottom-up decoding: listening (OUP ELT Blog)
How Teachers Collaborate Online and in School (Edutopia Video)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Budget cuts — you can’t get around them, but you can find ways to reduce the pain. Here’s how to teach lean, make supplies last, and not shortchange your kids. Visit http://www.edutopia.org/stw-different… for more resources from Mesquite Elementary.
ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 3
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 3 | January 18, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] The art of juggling: developing the language learner’s vocabulary The 5 principles of highly effective teachers (TED Video) Perspective, Pace and Passing: Teaching English in a Foundations Programme Cambridge English Webinar: Online video genres and student creation, February 2 Better together – maximising language… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 3