Articles

This article explores how you can encourage your students to focus on content in their writing and gives ideas for how to respond to it.

This article is about making the listening experience in the classroom more similar to what we do in real life. It's about giving our students some choice in what they listen to and what they take from it.

When teaching large classes of students year after year it can become very difficult to see each student as an individual with individual needs and abilities.

One of the key issues I've noticed in getting my elementary learners to read is that of self-confidence. 

Every classroom has them, and every teacher has no doubt used them at some time in their career. Many teachers have no doubt cursed them in the darker days of their lives.

This article looks at establishing and maintaining discipline in the teen classroom.

"Motivation is as much an effect as a cause of learning." Ausubel

In this article I will discuss how teachers can aim to improve the motivation levels of teenage students.

This is the second of two articles that deal with the topic of intercultural awareness and learning. The first article - Intercultural learning 1 - sets out the methodological background to this topic, and this, the second article, offers practical suggestions for the classroom.

This is the first of two articles that deal with the topic of intercultural awareness and learning. This article sets out the methodological background to this topic, and the second article - Intercultural learning 2 - offers practical suggestions for the classroom.