Returning to the school environment after the summer holidays can engender mixed feelings for both students and teachers. After several weeks of comparative freedom, there is work to be done… Read More »Back To Class After The Summer
What is it like to teach in a bilingual school? In my job as a travelling teacher and teaching consultant, I have the privilege of visiting a lot of different… Read More »Teaching In Bilingual Schools
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence is becoming a daily part of school life. On the administrative side, it can be used to organise and plan the curriculum and collate data giving… Read More »The Impact of A.I. Chatbots in the English Language Classroom
In this final blog in the series on Teaching as Performance, I’d like to focus more generally on our teaching persona, some personal narrative elements we can bring to our… Read More »Teaching as Performance, Part Three: Teacher as Performer
Having looked at the parallels between performance space and classroom space, in this second blog, I’d like to consider the similarities between acting and teaching, and what we can learn… Read More »Teaching as Performance, Part Two: The Elements of Performance
Part of learning English will often involve reference to the history and culture of the places where the English language originated; primarily Britain. Many texts and activities will require students… Read More »Explaining Northern Ireland To Students of English
After reading through Larry’s recent blog on teaching spaces, I was struck by how the physical relationship between teachers and learners in the classroom echoes the types of staging we… Read More »Teaching as Performance, Part One: Using the Space
Alternative ways to organise space in and around the classroom Where is the strangest place you have had to teach a lesson? English Teachers around the world and all those… Read More »Teaching Spaces
We would like to wish all our readers a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. To help you celebrate the New Year as you return to your classrooms after the… Read More »Happy New Year!
How can we as diligent EFL/TEFL/ESOL teachers motivate our students to learn English? This is a question we probably ask ourselves on a daily basis. Many of us will often… Read More »Motivating Learners Of English