Storytelling in ELT: Writing and Performing Plays Together
Get Your Learners Thinking Creatively in the English Language Classroom: 5 Activities to Use in the Classroom
How to teach English to children and teaching English to teens and early teens.
Get Your Learners Thinking Creatively in the English Language Classroom: 5 Activities to Use in the Classroom
What is the Artists in Schools Project? Many years ago, I worked on a programme to encourage schools to invite artists into the classroom. They… Read More »Artists in Schools Project: Visual Arts and Language
Using Storytelling in ELT to Young Learners: The Hands Up Project Nick Bilbrough has been involved in the field of language teaching for twenty-five years.… Read More »Using Storytelling in ELT to Young Learners: The Hands Up Project
Get Your Learners Thinking Creatively in the English Language Classroom: 5 Activities to Use in the Classroom
Get Your Learners Thinking Creatively in the English Language Classroom: 5 Activities to Use in the Classroom
Ask any teacher to react to the idea of teaching teens and there will be either a shiver of horror or the exclamation of “bring it on!”. We’re going to find out why teaching teens is a not only a deeply important privilege but how it will also improve your own brain health. We’ll look at the hormonal and neurological changes that take place, and the needs of adolescents, that if met, will make for fantastic relationships and effective learning.
Many teachers are daunted by the idea of dealing with the visual arts in the classroom, let alone an English language classroom. They often don’t consider themselves as “arty”. Looking at images created by artists can be confounding. In this article, I’ll offer ideas and activities that can be used when working with the visual arts that empower teacher and learner alike.
What do I Need to Keep in Mind When Teaching Speaking Skills in Children’s English Language Classes (Young Learners)? Listening Skills Develop Before Speaking Skills
Chances are that at some point in your teaching career, you will teach or will have taught children. I had the classic scenario of starting with adults and slowly but surely being given classes with younger and younger students, until one day I realised that I was almost entirely a young learner teacher. Thing is, I never got any clear guidance in all that time as to how that should have been affecting my teaching. How do children learn? Were there any learning theories I should know about?