Students today are increasingly more visual and image-oriented than even those of yesterday, let alone of yester-year. Video-based lessons are appealing to students and advantageous to teachers, and with a little time, thought and attention can provide significant learning and language-practice opportunities.
It's probably a few years since you did Upper Primary / Lower Secondary / Middle School (second cycle) mathematics, but the experience for your students will be more recent. Take advantage of this enthusiasm and make your maths colleagues your friends by reviewing the English of Middle School Mathematics.
Gross Motor development is not the exclusive domain of Physical Education teachers; English teachers can also use these activities for students to blow off extra steam as they practise their English skills. They are especially useful in Active Learning and experiential learning programmes.
Chile's National Curriculum is an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) programme, yet many teachers and students are functionally at an English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) level and so an E2L programme would likely be more appropriate. How about you? What are your E2L skills like?
Online videos provide immediate, relevant and up-to-date content while offering teachers exciting, engaging and useful source material for language and media/media literacy lessons.
This overview is ideal for teachers new to Cambridge English certification for school students or in their first two years of preparing students for these examinations.
Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) for Primary students : Starters, Movers, Flyers
Cambridge English for Schools (EfS) for Secondary students : Key (was KET), Preliminary (was PET) and First (was FCE)
Each stand-alone session reviews the respective genre, what Cambridge English is looking for, how to build a teacher-friendly and student-centred programme. For each level, the relevant introductory "implementing the descriptors" is strongly reommended. These sessions are for teachers new to Cambridge English for Schools, or in their first two years' preparing students for these certificates.
Key to an effective Writing Programme is "Publishing and Feedback", yet for teachers considerations of the how, what, where and when of publishing can be daunting. Join us as we review Publishing, Feedback (and the relationship to evaluation) and Considerations, and twelve publication possibilities. The material covered does not apply only to student work and will be of interest to writers.
Chile's recent constitutional plebiscite prompts the question of how to use news reports on current events in an English class. The answer is that it's easy : task, not text. This session reviews a simple, teacher-friendly and highly-effective lesson structure which provides a language-rich, reading-comprehension and authentic discussion plan.
Research* shows that "round the class" reading (or round robin reading or reading in turns) is ineffective. So what works? This one-hour session reviews four highly-effective, teacher-friendly communicative approaches to unlocking a text and promoting reading comprehension, both explicit and implicit. The prompt is a G4 text on Volcanoes and activities are targetted at that level, although the model and approaches can be used all levels. For EFL, immersion and bilingual teachers, including teachers of subjects other than English.
