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Sarah Longfield of Cambridge University Press has published a free white paper entitled ‘Effective professional development: Principles and best practice’. Have you always wanted to know how best to approach your own professional development, or that of the teachers in your institution? Silvana Richardson and Gabriel Diaz Maggioli have created an Effective professional development: Principles and… Continue reading Effective professional development: Principles and best practice [Free whitepaper]

I am sure you are going to find this BusyTeacher article ‘How to Become the Best Teacher’ helpful. If you want to become the best teacher for your students, you’d better not ignore what they say. Let Your Students Help You Be a Better Teacher for Them 1. A good teacher is an assertive teacher Your students… Continue reading How to Become the Best Teacher

Here is a useful article ‘7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Your Virtual Classroom’ from Edutopia. Pen-and-paper pop quizzes are no more: thumbs-up/thumbs-down, hand signals, online polls, discussion boards, and chat boxes have become the new mainstays of formative assessments in virtual classrooms. These quick pulse checks help teachers make sure that students are grasping key concepts—and… Continue reading 7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Your Virtual Classroom

COVID-19 has meant huge disruption to learning. The best way to get learners back on track and rebuild their motivation and sense of purpose is to give them goals to work towards, whether they are back in the classroom or learning online. Preparing for a Cambridge English Qualification means that a learner knows where they… Continue reading How preparing for Cambridge English Qualifications can help motivate learners through lockdown

Here is an interesting article from Global OUP ELT Blog. You can find trailers on YouTube or sites like iTunes Movie Trailers. A typical trailer will be between 2 and 3 minutes long, although teaser trailers – those released sometime before the movie’s planned release – will be shorter, and typically give less of the plot… Continue reading 5 Easy Classroom Activities Involving Movie Trailers

Challenges of Creating Teacher Presence in the Remote Classroom [ELT Summit Video] Present Simple and Present Progressive by Nick Shepherd Using Foreign Language as a Bridge to Learning in the Classroom [Video] The Benefits of Dual-Language Immersion [Video] 6 Fabulous Games to Get Your Students Speaking Teaching in the socially distanced classroom What’s Your OALD… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 13 | September 2020

“I have lunch”, or “I’m having lunch”? Which is good English? That’s an easy question: they’re both good, but they have different meanings. But then it gets more complicated, and here lies a problem for teachers. Do we offer a simple explanation which is true up to a point, or a full explanation which (like… Continue reading Present Simple and Present Progressive by Nick Shepherd

A partial-immersion K-12 Japanese-language program teaches students that it’s easy to make friends if you speak the same tongue.

Here is a video from Edutopia. Research shows that students can benefit cognitively, socially, and academically from instruction in two languages.

SUSAN VERNER’s article on BusyTeacher features some useful tips on engaging your students in speaking activities using games. Many ESL teachers find that their students are timid speakers or reluctant to participate in class discussions. It’s only natural. After all, they are trying to talk in a language they are still working on learning. Still, silence can… Continue reading 6 Fabulous Games to Get Your Students Speaking