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10 Pros And Cons Of A Flipped Classroom

flippedclassroomMany of us can recall instances in our lives where we found ourselves idly sitting in a classroom, eyes glazed over, half listening to our teacher as they lectured in front of the room. These scenes are all too familiar in today’s schools, as the traditional model of learning has primarily revolved around a teacher-centered classroom, where instructors...

Register transfer: Sadly, a skill no longer required by exam boards

Register transfer  One of the criteria used by examiners when marking the writing paper in examinations is the so called “register transfer” i.e. whether a candidate’s answer is written in the appropriate style, if it has the right degree of formality or informality or even whether it is too personal, or not personal enough. The fact that most, if not all, C2-level...

Don’t be this teacher!

gettyimages 97864091I have this new hobby. I torture myself by visiting teachers’ fb groups, I read terrible things they write and I collect gems for my next workshop, “Don’t be this teacher”! No joke. It sounds presumptuous but honestly, I’m seriously fed up with the nonsense I read. Not only because I read a bunch of unscientific claims about language teaching but mainly...

7 Ways to Maintain Relationships During Your School Closure

online teaching jobsSuddenly, you’re not in the same physical space as your students. We asked teachers to share strategies for maintaining relationships—both peer-to-peer and student-teacher—when everything’s gone remote. By Sarah Gonser On any given day in schools, many students exchange warm greetings with a smiling teacher, then move on to a morning...

L2 Learning: Help them do it alone

L2 Learning Help them do it alone    Teaching junior, pre-junior and nursery L2 classes can surface specific challenges, oxymorously fabricated by the mindset, the approaches and the methodology professed and employed by the dominant TEFL pedagogy. Nursery, preschool, early school L2 learners constitute formative learning stages that entail teaching the young child...

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