Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know November 6, 2011 Teaching High Level Kids (by Randy Poehlman) Teaching high-level children can be a challenging endeavor, fraught with various drawbacks and difficulties for a teacher. Students who are returning from an English speaking country, who have become bilingual through intensive children’s language... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know October 20, 2011 Choice in the EFL Classroom (by Vicky Saumell) I have been teaching teens for 20 years and finding effective strategies to motivate them is something that I have always been interested in since it has really helped me with my teen classes.... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know July 13, 2011 How to plan an exciting EFL museum trip (by Lesley Ito) As a teacher in an English language school with a strong cross-curricular focus, I always try my best to bring authentic materials into the classroom. Humans learn more when they can experience the real... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 25, 2011 Proactive Discipline–Tend to Your Garden (by Eric Kane) Creating a positive learning environment with few discipline problems is a goal of any teacher. We all want to give our young learners the best opportunity to succeed, but sometimes we forget that building... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 22, 2011 The “Reading Pictures” Strategy (By Naomi Ganin-Epstein) It’s Wednesday, 11:00, just a regular day at the high school. Two English teachers are sitting in the teacher’s room marking exams during their “free” period. Every now and then you can hear each... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 17, 2011 Rice in Japan and Rice Around the World (by Bob Middleton) Bringing food topics into the language classroom is one way to stimulate language learning as well as hungry appetites. 9 and 10 year old students in the 5th grade of our elementary school in... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 15, 2011 Creating a Buzz in Teens’ Classrooms (by Mari Nakamura) “Aren’t teenagers too self-conscious to speak English?” “Do they care about the contents that do not appear in their school tests?” “Well… I wouldn’t want to get into that area…” I have been teaching... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 1, 2011 Images à la Dogme (by Chiew Pang) I must admit that when Barb invited me to submit a guest post, I felt I wasn’t worthy of such an invite. Later, I thought… if she’d felt that I had something to contribute,... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know May 31, 2011 Moving Beyond “Do you like?” (by Randy Poehlman) Getting students to express preference and to make choices is as easy as holding out a red pencil and a blue pencil and letting them choose, then providing practice and drills based on the... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know May 29, 2011 How culture matters If you walk into a neighborhood in my part of Japan, you’ll see a display like this somewhere near the entrance. It’s a map showing all of the houses in a neighborhood, and the... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket