Teaching English to Adolescents: An alternative platform if you are having trouble with youtube: Teaching teens: the teenage brain The teenage brain: why it’s important for teachers to understand it. During adolescence, the teenage brain and particularly the prefrontal cortex are undergoing massive development. Picture a massive and busy building site with cables and wiresContinue reading “The teenage brain: what we as teachers need to know.”
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Teaching English to Adolescents Online Teacher Training Course
Teaching English to Adolescents: An alternative platform if you are having trouble with youtube: https://vimeo.com/427723364 Online Course Teaching English to Teens and Pre-Teens When we’re teaching English to adolescents, creating an effective learning environment for our kids is like building the perfect nest. Without the right conditions, healthy development of mind, body, and spirit willContinue reading “Teaching English to Adolescents Online Teacher Training Course”
Why Everyone Should Teach Teens and Feel Lucky to Do So
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.
Teaching Young Learners to Think
Coetzer (IHJournal June 2017) calls them “chubby questions”. Questions that get people, and importantly our learners, drilling down deep for answers. If you’re aware of HOTS and LOTS, you’ll know they refer to “Higher Order Thinking Skills” and “Lower Order Thinking Skills”. We want learners to move beyond LOTS, that include activities like memorising, applying and answering short Yes/No answers into the challenges of HOTS: investigation, interpretation, analysis, manipulation, critique and creation.