| | | | Teaching kids
'Winter' is a variety of fun activities about how to integrate Christmas and seasonal traditions into your lessons. There is also a winter project that includes Christmas as just one of its many aspects. Other activities include crafts, songs, baking and games complete with freely downloadable resources.
| Teaching teens
'A Child's Christmas in Wales' explores Dylan Thomas' childhood account of a Christmas Day experience and gives learners the opportunity to develop their creative writing skills by incorporating some of the linguistic features present in Dylan Thomas' prose. The lesson is suitable for B1 level learners and comes with freely downloadable resources.
| Teaching adults
Most teachers at some time in their career have to teach one to one classes. They find a very different, challenging and special learning context, with unique possibilities and unique problems. In this article we will look at what exactly makes these classes so different from teaching groups, identify the advantages and disadvantages of learning and teaching in this way, and review some possible approaches and techniques to help effective learning.
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| | | | Development
This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is Edouard Creemers' and Renate Thummler Blum's 'CT and Technology as part of 21st Century Skills'. Edouard and Renate look at on-line learning, blended learning and flipping the classroom, in addition to discussing what a cultivated critical thinker is, how we can become critical thinkers ourselves and how to incorporate Critical Thinking in the teaching/learning process.
| Events
Join a free TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) course, opening on January 9th for those teaching in difficult circumstances in developing country contexts. The five-week experience - 'Classroom-based Research for Professional Development'- will provide a practical introduction to teacher-research, helping teachers to explore challenges by planning and carrying out small-scale classroom investigations. Registration starts on 1st January 2017.
| Magazine
In ELT, and in education in general, there are many terms and phrases that seem to be 'in fashion' at a particular time. Lately, one such term that seems to get thrown about to oohs and aahs in educational discussions is '21st Century Skills'. We are told that our learners must develop them, we as teachers must be aware of them, they are necessary for an ever-changing world of work and study... and yet, I have rarely heard definitions of what they are exactly. Read David Dodgson's latest blog post '21st Century Boy' to learn more.
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