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Author: Anna Hasper

Anna Hasper is a teacher, trainer and international English Language Teaching consultant based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Anna’s specialty is enabling teachers within local constraints, such as limited resources, to become the best teacher they can by enhancing all students’ learning opportunities through engagement. She has been working in the ELT industry for over 13 years and has worked on various projects for the british Council, International House, Ministries of Education, private schools, education providers and publishers in primary, secondary and vocational contexts. She loves exploring new places and learning about different cultures and has worked in a variety of countries such as China, Jordan, Iran, Uganda, Senegal, Algeria and Armenia. She currently writes and trains teachers for publishers and delivers a variety of Cambridge accredited teacher training courses (TKT, CELTA, YL Ex & Delta Module 3) around the world.
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Using Images In Our World Readers in The Young Learner Classroom

23 December 2019 Anna Hasper Young Learners Leave a comment

In this post, we are going to look at how we can use the images in the Our World Readers and see how these images can be a stimulus for developmentally appropriate writing work. The Our World readers are available in six levels and are based on original stories, folk

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Flashcard Activities for the Young Learner Classroom

8 November 2018 Anna Hasper Young Learners 2 comments

Welcome to our fifth post in this series. We hope you have enjoyed experimenting with the activities described so far! In this post, we are going to look in more detail at using flashcards, or picture cards as some call them, in the young learner classroom. If you are a very

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Why Images are Powerful for Learning

7 September 2018 Anna Hasper Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

Welcome to the fourth post in this series. In this post, we will be looking at why images are so powerful in the language learning process and at bringing images into the classroom to develop our students’ creative thinking. The Social-Age You may have noticed, with the popularity of Instagram,

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Working Creatively with Images

27 June 2018 Anna Hasper Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

‘CREATIVITY Is intelligence having fun’ (Einstein) Don’t you just love that quote? In previous blog posts we talked about the importance of developing creative teaching and the need to start with ourselves, becoming more creative as teachers. In the last blog post we explored a framework to use with existing

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Two Frameworks for Teaching Creatively in the ELT Classroom

4 May 2018 Anna Hasper Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 5 comments

Welcome to the second post in this series. In the previous post we looked at definitions of creativity and talked about the importance of developing creative skills in our classrooms, not only for our learners but also for teachers! In this post I’ll be looking at a framework you can

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What is creative thinking and why is it important

23 March 2018 Anna Hasper Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners 3 comments

The idea that, as teachers, we need to foster learners’ creative thinking is something I’m sure you have heard before. So why is there so much attention in our current learning and teaching context on ‘being creative’ and developing thinking skills in the classroom? And are we only talking about

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Differentiation in the ELT Classroom

Interview: Anna Hasper on Differentiation in the ELT classroom

28 June 2017 Anna Hasper Young Learners 3 comments

Listen to our interview with Anna Hasper on differentiation in the ELT classroom and her strategies to manage this – to ‘enable not label’. Have you read Anna’s article here?

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Differentiation in the Young Learner Classroom

There’s Only One of You: How to Cater for Differentiation in Young Learner Classes

28 June 2017 Anna Hasper Young Learners 8 comments

On my first day teaching English to a class of young learners I walked into a classroom full of 6-year-olds. As the young teacher I was then I had no idea of how different one 6-year-old could be from another. I mean, from the outside they all looked the same;

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