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.
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World Teachers' Day web conference
Join us on Saturday 5 October for our World Teachers' Day web conference in collaboration with IATEFL. This year, World Teachers’ Day will celebrate teachers with the theme, 'Young Teachers: The future of the profession'. The day provides the occasion to celebrate the teaching profession worldwide, to take stock of achievements and to address some of the issues central for attracting and keeping the brightest minds and young talents in the profession. Register now.
Eight Ways To Help English Language Learners Feel Motivated To Read and Write
In this post, Larry Ferlazzo shares a few ideas on how to specifically create conditions to promote student interest in reading and writing. He identifies four ways to nurture intrinsic motivation and suggests a number of practical strategies to help every student in your class feel motivated to read and write in English. Read more.
Star stories
This lesson for learners aged 9–12 years and at level A2 and above features a text about how the starless spaces in the sky were used to identify objects by two cultures. Students learn the key vocabulary, complete the text with the missing words, look for other patterns in the night sky and invent explanations or stories to accompany them. Read more.
Habit formation: 5-minute tips for improving your English
Sandy Millin writes about how making language learning a part of her daily routine marked the biggest change in the amount of progress she was able to make. In this post she shares a variety of techniques that she's found successful for learning languages and which she shares with her students, while encouraging them to find what works best for them.
AILA ELL ReN Conference – call for proposals
The next AILA ELL ReN Conference will take place at Nova University Lisbon, from 12 to 14 November 2020, in collaboration with the Primary English Education in Portugal Network. The conference title is 'Teachers and teacher educators: Education and professional development for early language learning', and the purpose is to take a closer look at how teacher education fosters multilingual spaces in the early years of formal education. The deadline for proposals is 28 February 2020. Find out more.
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