Ammon Shea, a 37-year-old former furniture remover in New York, spent 12 months conquering what he describes as the Everest of dictionaries, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), by ploughing throug...
I describe it as the ability to seek-out, elicit, and consider different information and various perspectives of situations, fairly weigh the evidence on all sides and how it all connects to existing background knowledge, and then use that process to come to an independent conclusion.
I have been teaching mainly older students (from about 55 to 85 years of age) for several years now. I love teaching them because of their enthusiasm, motivation, positive attitude and kindness. I’ve recently produced a short film about some of my older learners at UAB Idiomes Barcelona. You can watch the film below. …
Back in the late 90s, in the process of reading for my MA dissertation, I put together a collection of hundreds of sentence frames that I felt could help me
Today is necessary the change in the teaching English. Some years ago the only resources that teacher used to related students with the real life were focus in songs of Beatles, videos of Mr Bean, or british newspapers, but now exist a lot of resources to give students another view of English teaching and learning, and blogs are one of them. This tool hepl students in the interaction, searching and knowing of new things, and also the acquisition of vocabulary, proficiency of language and fluency because in blogs we can found a natural and contemporany English similar to the language native people use everyday.
Teaching English online independently is a way for you to earn more, teach the way you want to teach, and work from anywhere in the world. You can choose your schedule, target learners who you love working with, and scale your business over the long-term. Sounds great, right? The problem is this: without online marketing …
Does a prepared teacher always have detailed lesson plans? This week, Chia looks at what it means to be a prepared teacher and considers ten ways of doing so.
New teachers describe being a new teacher as terrifying, overwhelming and nerve-wracking. Mentorship is a way to move new teachers from surviving to thriving.
Chia Suan Chong, winner of the British Council's Teaching English blog award, offers three strategies to help students use English in international environments.
Sources of Feedback.One of the most important things to a positive career in education is professional development—essential to maintaining a high standard.
From the moment you become an online teacher, email marketing never leaves you. At first you realize that finding students online isn't as easy as those websites tell you, and regardless of their
Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat's insight:
A must-follow training session for ALL independent online teachers.
When I worked in a private language school in London, I had a colleague - let's call her Paulina - who stayed late every evening. I would see Paulina preparing lessons and grading papers as if her life depended on it. She was always the last to leave the school and often the first to arrive…
In her blogpost this week, Chia Suan Chong provides a handful of strategies that native speakers can use to facilitate more effective international communication with non-native speakers.
I know the feeling. I have been there. You have studied English really hard this year. You have been willing to go the extra mile a thousand times because you knew it was going to be worth your while. You have even burnt the candle at both ends staying up too late and getting up too early when stud
The second pre-conference event at the BESIG annual conference 2016 was on Creating excellent ELT materials. In this session five experienced ELT authors who have written teacher training modules published by ELT Teacher 2 Writer gave 15 minute workshops related the topics of the modules they'd written. This was a whirl of brilliance: a fast-paced but at…
The Dead Hand of The CEF The Common European Framework was designed for language teachers, so that levels and grades could be equated across different languages. It's based on the original work which led to The Threshold Level. It is NOT a progressive syllabus and does not claim to be such, but is rather a list…
I've created this video for my students and anyone who struggles with the system of English tenses. This is a very basic overview of how English tenses wor
As a teacherpreneur you might get occasional job offers that will look so luxurious and promising. Here's how to weed them out and focus on what you want.
Movie Lesson Plans Based on Films that will Inspire and Motivate Students; 425+ Movie Lesson Plans for High School, Middle School, Elementary and Home School
As usual, the world is in crisis. Ecological catastrophes, wars, corruption scandals, financial meltdowns, and politicians with bad hair. Do we keep our classroom insulated from these issues or do we incorporate them? For those inclined to the latter, here are some ways to do it. 1. Show & tell (who, where, when, what,…
This week we are very happy to share a post by a new guest blogger on the BELTA blog – Victoria Landa. Victoria reminds us of why we love being English teachers. Can you think of any more way…
When Sugatra Mitra introduced the ELT world to his concept of the SOLE (self-organised learning environment) at IATEFL 2014, half of the audience stood up and walked out while the other half were s…
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