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In this section, you will find a number of blog posts, which have been written to help you develop your skills and knowledge as a teacher in the professional practice 'Promoting 21st century skills'. From primary-aged students to adult learners of English, the blog posts you will find here are practical, insightful and full of ideas to support your teaching and planning for all kinds of classrooms.

Disclaimer: All content written for our magazine is produced independently by teachers working in the English language teaching profession around the world. The views and opinions expressed in the content produced by these writers does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the British Council

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World events - Do they have a place in the ELT classroom especially with younger learners?

Gone are the days when language teaching was confined to using text books and prescribed course content. With the changing times, needs and rationale of language learning, teaching has undergone tremendous change. The transition from old methodologies to more liberal ways and use of authentic material can be seen in many classrooms.

Global Citizens

To educate, empower and add value to life

Teaching presentation skills to promote inclusivity

How lessons on presentation skills bring different people together.

Life Skills at A0 level

Learning to be a learner is a part of successful learning.

Critical Thinking Skills

Critical thinking skills, according to the many existing definitions, include observation, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and metacognition. This last one, as defined in The Free Dictionary, means thinking about one's own mental processes. The notion is widely used in psychology.

"Extensive Reading" a gate to promoting critical thinking

Reading is one of the targeted skills to be taught in class. We all familiar with reading for gist/specific info/ inferring and deducing the meaning. Yet how much in-class time do you allocate to reading novels or stories to introduce critical thinking?

Gamifying the reading

To what extent do you use realia and real-world tasks to develop reading and writing skills? How does this help motivate your students?

Ceri Jones - This is just to say...

This is one of my favourite ways in to using poetry in the classroom.

Research and insight

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