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A new class: building a learning environment together
Many of us are starting new terms and working with new groups. We probably already know what the learners are expected to achieve in their time with us, and the pressure is on. It’s tempting to dive...
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Monitoring class activities
Photo Credit: madabandon via Compfight cc Dictionary definitions of monitoring include: To check the quality or content of something. To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting...
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Teacher echo, teacher echo: helpful, or greedy and controlling?
Recently listening to Cecilia Lemos’ great talk on recasting as a form of correction, and how she had decided it was not always very effective, I started thinking again about teacher echo. Recasting...
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Feedback: the most important part of any exercise?
When you’re preparing a lesson you probably give a lot of thought to the tasks and exercises you plan to include. But how much thought do you give to what happens (or should happen) between the...
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A link has been doing the rounds on Facebook, entitled ‘This school replaced detention with meditation- the results are stunning’. According to the article, there have been zero suspensions since they...
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Motivating your students to go beyond the intermediate plateau
Every teacher recognises the concept of the intermediate plateau. Students at intermediate, or upper intermediate level start to feel that they aren’t making real progress anymore. They just don’t...
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Mindfulness, mental set and classroom management
Most spiders have four pairs of eyes, which enable them to see what is happening all around them. And most teachers can only wish they had the same ability. Good teachers do appear to have ‘eyes in...
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