10 ago 2016

by | in Classroom Management, Lesson Ideas, Skills

A lot can be found in ELT books about how to use a range of different tasks and activities in order to make lessons more engaging and the promise of making learning fun has certainly spawned generations of resource books. Yet, although words on our role of selecting and designing activities are ubiquitous, little is usually written about how to use TTT in order to make activities more relevant and effective. In this three-part series of posts, I’d like to share some of my thoughts about how different stages...

10 maio 2016

by | in Teacher Development

It seems such an obvious concept and such an easy thing to do, but then, you set up a task, or ask for an action, and it does not come up as imagined. Sometimes, students just understand or get partial information on what they are supposed to do and so, undesired behaviour comes to play. For me this is a constant struggle and I see lots of teachers in the same situation. Instructions are not something to be overlooked, in fact, giving the right sort of instruction is crucial to...