How can we get learner centredness working in our large classrooms?
Get Your Learners Thinking Creatively in the English Language Classroom: 5 Activities to Use in the Classroom
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CELTA Preparation: What is Learner Centredness in Teaching?
In this article, we’ll have a look at this key concept that you need to understand as part of your CELTA preparation. We’ll also have a look at and some of the difficulties in applying it in English language classroom.
Homo Ludens? Learning and play in the language classroom
Well known author and teacher developer Jim Scrivener spoke to me in an interview a couple of years ago about focusing on where learning is happening. He claims that we devote lot of time as teachers to almost ritualistic teaching acts to engage and entertain students. In this article I go on to explore this idea further.
Motivation in the classroom
What can we do when we are required to complete a coursebook – say for example the learners need to successfully pass an exam – but the content is not relevant to the learner or motivating them to be participative and communicative in class?
The Power of Noticing
Observation is important when thinking about learning in any context – watching how understanding, epiphanies and other learning experiences take place, where and when. Observation in itself, is part of learning.