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Thinking Skills for Young Learner Sustainable Development Education

23 October 2023 Ellen Setterfield Young Learners 2 comments

As we approach the 2030 target date for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we’re seeing increasing focus on these in our classrooms. As Irina Bokova, former Director-General of UNESCO, explains, “Education is at the heart of our efforts both to adapt to change and to transform the world

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Exploring the SDGs Through Project Work

1 May 2023 Daniel Barber Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

In the first post in this series, we looked at why we should promote the United Nation’s SDGS – Sustainable Development Goals – with our English learners. This post turns to the how, specifically, in the shape of projects. If your teaching normally consists of individual lessons from a course,

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We Love Our Planet: Day and Night Mini Project

13 February 2020 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners 2 comments

In this series of blog posts for 2020, Katherine shares ideas for creative mini-project lesson plans that encourage learners to take an interest in aspects of nature. The series will motivate learners to feel wonder, respect, and love for the natural world. Learners will develop traditional skills of reading, writing,

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We love our planet: ideas for creative project lessons

23 January 2020 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners Leave a comment

In this series of blog posts for 2020, Katherine shares ideas for creative mini-project lesson plans that encourage learners to take an interest in aspects of nature. The series will motivate learners to feel wonder, respect, and love for the natural world. Learners will develop traditional skills of reading, writing,

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Use Projects, and Let Your Young Learners Surprise You

19 June 2019 Joan Kang Shin Young Learners 5 comments

Project work can be the perfect multisensory learning experience to give students the opportunity to make things with their own hands and experience the language and content in a meaningful context. Children are active learners and learn best through concrete tasks and hands-on activities. They learn by doing and will

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Think, Pair, Share

23 January 2019 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners 2 comments

In this blog post, Katherine writes about think, pair, share, a learning strategy that can be easily incorporated into classroom practice as a way of structuring learners’ approach to a task. She explains what think, pair, share is and why it can be useful. She then shares a step-by-step guide to

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Choice Boards

12 March 2018 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners 4 comments

Decision-making is an important life skill that all children need to develop. As teachers we share the responsibility, not only of providing opportunities in the classroom for our learners to make choices, but also to help them understand that the choices they make have consequences. There are lots of ways

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Become a Citizen Scientist

10 October 2017 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens One comment

Become a Citizen Scientist (Using Your Phone!) Did you know that you can contribute to scientific research using only your phone? Scientists around the globe are calling on anyone with a camera or a computer to help contribute to our knowledge of the world. This movement is called Citizen Science

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Projects for Young Learners

29 September 2017 Jodi Crandall Young Learners 2 comments

Why use projects in your young leaner English classroom?  Learning with projects is experiential learning and learning which motivates children, since they get to do what they like and get to avoid what they don’t like. Don’t we wish that all learning would be like that? For us, as well?

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The Power of Projects

26 July 2017 Alex Warren Teaching Adults Leave a comment

I remember the first project I ever did very clearly. It was with a class of intermediate level young teenage learners, and I was a little nervous about how it might go, as with anything you’re trying for the first time. There were lots of questions in my mind –

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