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Assessing Writing Blog Post

Using course book material to assess young learners’ writing skills

11 January 2021 Elaine Boyd Young Learners Leave a comment

Young learners have a very different learning profile to adults and function at different levels cognitively, socially and emotionally. This suggests we should assess them by reflecting their specific ways of learning and learning needs. The writing skill can often be one of the most challenging skills for young learners,

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Lessons for english language teaching from “Clickbait”

11 December 2020 Christien Lee Academic Skills, Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

Top doctor reveals the 3 worst things most people eat every day 12 unbelievable pet rescue stories. You’ll cry when you read #9! We’ve all seen online links like these, often accompanied by an eye-catching photo of an attractive person, a load of cash, a cute animal, or perhaps something

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Maximizing Learning in the Synchronous Classroom with Classroom Presentation Tools

18 November 2020 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 2 comments

With a move to online learning, the value of the digital coursebook represented through classroom presentation tools has never been higher. While many teachers will have used them in their real-world classroom, they perhaps weren’t seen as an essential component of the classroom, rather a luxury. In contrast, in the

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Engage, Build, Consolidate: An Effective Framework for Lesson Planning

11 November 2020 Andre Hedlund Teaching Teens Leave a comment

Lesson planning is key when we aim at attaining positive student learning outcomes. However, teachers’ task of anticipating different situations while considering every student’s individual needs, the resources available in the classroom or online, as well as how to help students stay on task is an enormous challenge. In this

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What if? Motivating students in all classrooms with critical incidents

23 October 2020 Chia Suan Chong Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

It can be tricky motivating learners even in a face-to-face classroom. Each learner has their own interests, their own personalities, their own reasons for being in class, and sometimes, finding an activity that gets everyone engaged and talking can be difficult. This problem is compounded in a virtual classroom where

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Blended Learning Webinar Playlist

12 October 2020 Alex Warren Academic Skills, Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

With schools, colleges, and universities back in classes, the educational landscape is very different to what it was the last time teachers were in the comforting physical confines of their classrooms. However, a return to the physical classroom does not simply mean going back to the way things were before.

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Bridging the Gap: Creating Community and Supporting Students in Any Classroom

25 September 2020 Carmella Lieske Teaching Teens One comment

As teachers, we want to create environments where our students feel connected with each other and us. We also want students to be motivated and feel empowered to fully participate in our classes. There are many ways to do this, but I’d like to discuss several practical strategies for creating

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Reading and Literacy for Young Learners playlist

14 September 2020 Andrew Tiffany Young Learners Leave a comment

Welcome to this webinar playlist by National Geographic Learning, featuring content from some of our expert authors and content developers.  In this course, you will watch several webinars on a particular topic and fill in several worksheets with your thoughts and ideas.  As a result, you should learn a number

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Using an Image as a Springboard for online work: Imaginary Instruments

3 August 2020 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners One comment

As many teachers around the world have moved from face to face teaching to online teaching, we’ve decided to change the focus of these blog posts too. For the next few months Look author Katherine Bilsborough will be sharing ideas of how to use an image as a springboard for

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Inspiration, Courage and Creative Writing

22 July 2020 Margaret (Malgorzata) Bryndal Academic Skills, Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

As I stare at my blinking cursor, stuck on the opening sentence, I’m trying to give myself a pep talk to create my very first blog entry….’just do it, just do it already’.  Two minutes later, I am still at the opening sentence.  Why is this so hard?  I mean,

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