| | | | Teaching kids
'Talking topics' is a simple board game which provides an excellent way to give students a bit of free speaking practice. You can choose your own topics based on those you've covered in lessons or topics of interest to your learners. Simply download and print off a copy of the board and fill in the squares. Alternatively, learners could work in groups to prepare boards for each other.
| Teaching teens
Although Assessment for learning, or AfL, is nothing new to mainstream education in the UK, in the world of ELT it remains a less familiar and practised approach. So, what is AfL and why is it important? Can it improve students' results? What does it involve?
And if you would like to try some AfL activities with your learners, you can find suggestions here.
| Teaching adults
'The mystery of the sand' is a lesson based around a 'teacher-less task', a lateral thinking puzzle where students have to work together to first sequence a story and then solve a puzzle. The lesson should help to develop lateral thinking skills (a creative way of thinking which is often considered to be part of critical thinking), improve co-operation between students and provide plenty of speaking practice as well as focusing on sequencers.
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| | | | Development
This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is John Simpson's 'Using multilingual approaches'. The benefits to individuals and societies of being multilingual are increasingly recognised. However, what does this mean for schools and classrooms? John looks at the three main challenges to using multilingual approaches and suggests ways of addressing each.
| Events
As many classes are now sitting down to begin a year of study that will take them off to exam success in June next year, it is worth thinking about what it is that they need in order to achieve that success. The answer to that question will obviously differ depending on the students, but the one thing that none of them will need or benefit from is exam practice. Read David Petrie's blog post 'Exam classes - keeping the balance' to learn more about how to help your students succeed.
| Magazine
After using project-based learning for 6 years and a few trial-and-error takes on project assessment, Vicky Saumell decided to stick with rubrics for assessing project work. Find out more about what rubrics are, how to create them, and some of the benefits of using them by reading Vicky's latest blog post 'Using rubrics to assess projects'.
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