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We've selected a range of practical resources to help you in the classroom and ideas to help you with your professional development, which we hope you find useful.
The TeachingEnglish team | | In this lesson, children learn about the United Nation’s Mother Earth Day, celebrated on 22 April each year, however it could be used at any time. Students brainstorm ideas about the things our planet gives us and make their own drawings with text or posters to share their ideas. The lesson is suitable for primary students aged 6-8 years at all levels. | | | Innovations in education: Remote teaching | Remote Teaching is a collection of articles, research papers and case studies that offer practitioners and policymakers insight into live online language teaching and teacher training. Many of the chapters focus on Ceibal en Inglés, an innovative programme teaching primary children in Uruguay. Others take a more general view. It is free to download and of interest to anyone involved in language teaching via videoconferencing. | | | Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching | What is language? How do we learn meaning in a new language? What is easy and hard about learning another language? And what is the best way to teach other languages? This free online course, developed by the British Council and University of Southampton, suggests some answers to these questions. Start date: 29 April. Find out more. | | | How to measure the effectiveness of your lessons if nobody controls you | Freelance teachers can easily fall victim to their professional freedom if they do not reflect on the effectiveness of their work. For any teacher working freelance it might be a serious challenge to evaluate the effectiveness of their course without peer supervision and control. It is vitally important to develop methods enabling them to see whether they are leading the students in the right way or may have already gone astray. Find out how one online teacher has managed this by developing a list of rules. | | | Check out our section on stories and poems to use in the secondary classroom with your learners aged 13-17. You may be especially interested in stories to develop the pyschosocial behaviour of your students, using such stories as The Ex-footballer, Sewing Day, or The Guitar. | | | Gender and sexuality in ELT – inclusive education vs. queer pedagogy | 'After more than half a century of profound social change and legislative reform across much of the world, issues of gender and sexuality remain problematic in English language teaching and in education more generally.' This IATEFL plenary talk looks at some of the reasons behind the continued reinforcement of heteronormativity in ELT materials, tests and teacher training, as well as possible ways forward. | | | | | | | |
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