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Join National Geographic Learning at TESOL 2018!

27 March 2018 National Geographic Learning Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

We hope you can join us at TESOL 2018! Check out the videos below to hear National Geographic Learning TESOL presenters speak about their upcoming sessions at TESOL 2018 in Chicago. Make sure to sign up for email notifications for daily reminders from National Geographic Learning during TESOL and stop

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creative

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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Pre-intermediate

How to integrate critical thinking at lower levels

7 March 2018 John Hughes Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 7 comments

Critical thinking is often associated with teaching students at higher language levels. Perhaps it’s because the kinds of problem-solving tasks which are associated with critical thinking require a level of English at Intermediate or above. Maybe it’s also that the kind of language used to describe critical thinking skills includes

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growth

Growth Mindset and Why Failure is a Positive word

27 February 2018 Katherine Stannett Teaching Teens, Young Learners One comment

Failure is a word and a concept that our students often fear. In today’s society, with its focus on success, celebrity, fame and wealth, failure is linked with a sense of not being good enough. But actually, failure is a hugely important part of learning. By failing, we see where

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photos

Bring the World into Your Classroom Through Photography

23 February 2018 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens, Young Learners 4 comments

For over a century, students have had opportunities to learn about far off places through pictures brought back by intrepid explorers venturing across the globe. The world learned about the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu through the images of explorer Hiram Bingham and saw the view from Mount Everest after

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Choose the perfect TED Talk for your students’ needs-try it!

14 February 2018 Lewis Lansford Teaching Teens 2 comments

According to the internet, video is processed 60,000 faster than text – an amazing, but seemingly unfounded claim repeated over and over online. Still, the old proverb A picture’s worth a thousand words isn’t wrong, and as teachers, we understand that one of the great things about video is the

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real

Using Real Life Topics in your Classroom

22 January 2018 Katherine Stannett Teaching Teens 2 comments

In this month’s blog post I want to look at why and how we can use real life topics to engage our teenage students. As teachers and materials writers, I think we can sometimes fall into the trap of thinking of language as a set of structures and lexical sets

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Talk

You can use a TED Talk without looking at the picture – try it!

21 December 2017 Lewis Lansford Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 4 comments

In my previous post, I wrote about playing TED Talks without the sound as a simple hack to control language level. But what happens if we leave the sound on and turn off the pictures? Does that have the opposite effect and raise the level of the input? Not necessarily.

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cultural

Capturing Culture in your Classroom

13 December 2017 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

Music, food, language, dance, stories and decorations. These are just a few of the ways that people express their cultural heritage. As a photographer, one of the most exciting parts of my work is discovering and photographing different cultural traditions around the world. When I visit a new place, I

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emotion

Making learning last: emotion, personalization and the unexpected

6 December 2017 Paul Dummett Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 2 comments

In my last blog post, we looked at the effectiveness of images and stories in helping to make learning more memorable. In this post I want to look at the role of emotion – both in the learning environment in general and in the content that we include in our

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