During your CELTA course, you will be given teaching practice points from a coursebook. You tutors will certainly help you with guidelines and suggestions on how to adapt and use it in class. Still, you might want to go the extra mile and impress them by choosing some alternative – and, hopefully, more creative ideasContinue reading “Ideas for Using and Adapting your Coursebook”
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It is a truth universally acknowledged….
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged’ that some structures are more trouble to acquire than others. A classic example is the Present Simple, which, according to morpheme acquisition research is one of the last grammar structures to be acquired fully by foreign language learners. In this article, written a very long time ago but recentlyContinue reading “It is a truth universally acknowledged….”
Teaching Assessments Online during the CELTA
In this second blog post contributed by Sara Katsonis, a trainee on the same online/blended CELTA course which was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing restrictions, lockdown and inability to complete the teaching practicum part of the course which was under way at the time. Sara started with tech issues even with simple things likeContinue reading “Teaching Assessments Online during the CELTA”
How to Make Things Fall Apart – a PK on Classroom Management
Originally posted on Profesorbaker's Worldwide Bilingual Blog:
This Pecha Kucha, by Marisa Constantinides, should be required viewing for all EFL teachers. As hilarious as it is, there is a message lurking between the fits of laughter, the mirthful moments, the tears rolling down your cheeks, your sides hurting, as you laugh totally uncontrollably. If…
Overcoming observation anxiety
Whether you have been observed by colleagues in a more or less unofficial setting, by your DOS as part of a job appraisal scheme or process, or as part of a teacher training course such as the CELTA or the Delta, being observed can be extremely stressful for most teachers. The topic of classroom observationsContinue reading “Overcoming observation anxiety”
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