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Tips for Using World Link Online to Bolster Students’ Creativity and Communication

1 March 2021 Brenden Layte Teaching Adults One comment

The last year has been a disruptive one for many people, including teachers and students. While the current challenges are hopefully more manageable than they were in 2020, many of us are still searching for best practices for teaching and working online. Perhaps even more of us are still trying

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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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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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imaginary instruments

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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Five things I’ve learned teaching in lockdown

16 July 2020 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

They say a lot can happen in a year. Indeed, a lot can happen in a few months. Cast your mind back to the start of the year when everything was still normal for most of us – schools were open, classes were running, and a fully online teaching world

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Assessing Young Learners Online

13 July 2020 Elaine Boyd Young Learners Leave a comment

How is assessing online different? The learners: Our learners are in a different situation; often at home with parents watching them and without the support of their peer group. We need to be mindful that they may feel uncomfortable or sensitive to their situation. The options: Certain ways of direct

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How Zoom is making classroom recordings a key part of our teaching

9 July 2020 John Hughes Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 3 comments

In traditional face-to-face teaching, there have always been lots of benefits to recording students in class. For example, if you make an audio recording of a role play conversation, then the two students can listen back. Or a student can make a video recording of their presentation, watch it back

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