This week we have a NEW lesson plan for secondary learners; Valentine's Day activities for learners of all ages; two NEW publications; a blog post from the IATEFL YLT SIG on building teens' self-esteem; a NEW upcoming webinar for primary teachers; and a FREE methodology course.
We hope you find these resources useful.
The TeachingEnglish team
Women and girls in science
February 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In this speaking and reading lesson for teenagers and adults at CEF level B2 and above, students read an article about some of the reasons why there are fewer girls and women interested in working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and what's happening to encourage equality in these fields. Students will have a chance to evaluate ways of doing this, as well as reading about alternative approaches.
Speaking practice in the primary classroom
Join us on 20 February 2020 at 11.00am UK time for our latest webinar, with Tracey Chapelton looking at speaking activities with primary-aged learners. Tracey looks at simple ways to turn any activity into a speaking activity in the primary classroom. You'll also explore fun and motivating ways to help your students improve their pronunciation and expression and build their confidence when speaking.
Champion teachers Mexico: Stories of exploratory action research
The Champion Teachers Programme is an exciting initiative by the British Council to help teachers improve their skills through continuing professional development in the area of research. In this book, you can read about teachers' exploration of skills, classroom management, motivation and much more. These accounts are useful examples of the school context in Mexico, the situations teachers live with daily and how they find the best ways to face them.
Activities with purpose – How I build upper secondary learners' self-esteem
In this latest blog post from the IATEFL YLT SIG, Sofia Leone shares why it is important to build self-esteem, together with a range of practical ideas for building upper secondary learners' self-esteem. Read more.
Valentine's Day
In this primary lesson, learners will play a vocabulary game, review language related to Valentine's Day, read and learn a well-known Valentine's Day poem, and produce their own poem. Valentine's Day activities for teens and adults can be found here.
Starter Teachers: A methodology course for the classroom
'Starter Teachers: A methodology course for the classroom' is aimed at equipping teacher trainers in low-resource contexts with skills and techniques they can use to play an active role in starter teachers' continuing professional development. The publication is free to download in PDF format.
Resilience and language teacher development in challenging contexts: Supporting teachers through social media
This paper by Gary Motteram and Susan Dawson reports on a study into the possible roles social media might play in teacher education in challenging contexts. It focuses on the role of WhatsApp use and developing teacher resilience by forming teacher communities of practice. The work builds on prior activity taking place in teacher associations in three sub-Saharan countries: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Rwanda. It is free to download.
Katherine Bilsborough: Using sketchbooks in the English classroom
This blog post is about how Katherine came across Chris Riddell and how she think his ideas for arming children with sketchbooks could work brilliantly in the ELT classroom. Read about how you could use sketchbooks in an English class, try it and post a comment on the page.
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