TeachingEnglish newsletter 18 January 2017

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 18 January 2017 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter This week we announce two new moderated courses starting on 26 January - Primary: Discovering language and interaction and Discovering classroom management. For the classroom we have an interesting blog post on using Instagram with high and low-level students to encourage interaction and communication. For younger learners we have a lesson plan on the topic of weather, and some tips and activities to get your students using English in the classroom. We also have an interesting post about an alternative method of teacher collaboration and observation that benefits both the teacher and the learners. And finally, if you would like help with identifying and working with dyslexic learners, watch a recording of Sally Farley's seminar. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids In this lesson, learners sing a song, do a series of activities to practise weather vocabulary and make a weather chart to practise question forms and short answers to talk about the weather. For homework they record the weather for a week and then talk about it in the following class. Go to the lesson Teaching teens Getting students to use English in the classroom is one of the biggest challenges of teaching. This article gives some useful tips and ways to create opportunities for simple communication in English lessons, as well as activities to encourage English in the classroom. Go to the article Teaching adults Research, information exchange and collaboration are common in most EFL lessons. Sometimes the key focus is a new grammar point, a theme or area of vocabulary, Instagram can cater for two aspects at the same time: sharing the students' production visually and their engagement, data and point of view in the comments. Read Raquel Gonzaga's post to find out how to use Instagram to encourage students to research, interact and share content. Read more Development We are pleased to announce that our two new moderated courses 'Primary: Discovering language and interaction' and 'Discovering classroom management' start on 26 January. Each course takes 15 hours to complete and consists of 4 modules. Find out more about these courses Don't forget that we also offer two free modules to help you on your CPD path - 'Getting started' and 'Understanding Special Educational Needs (SEN)'. Read more Events In this seminar, 'Identifying and working with dyslexic students', Sally Farley debunks several myths about Dyslexia and shows how, through the right teaching strategies, dyslexic learners can become successful language learners.    Watch a recording of this seminar Magazine 'Successful teacher collaboration - Two teachers - Two roles - One class' is a post about an alternative method of teacher collaboration and observation that benefits both the teacher and the learners. Find out how two colleagues decided to collaborate to combine classes in a context where there is no mentoring or coaching system and little peer observation, and how they benefited and developed from the experience. Read more You have received this newsletter because you registered on our website or previously showed interest in British Council news. If you wish to opt out of future newsletters please unsubscribe here.

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