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Creating a positive learning environment

Discover strategies for creating a positive learning environment with this self-access development resource.

Setting up in the young learner classroom

This article looks at the techniques involved in setting up tasks in the young learner classroom with suggestions of how to implement them.

Establishing the ground rules

Good classroom management skills are essential to the smooth and efficient running of any classroom.

Reluctant talkers Part 2

This second part of the tips for reluctant talkers focuses on your skills as a people manager.

Monitoring

When your students are on-task and engaged in a speaking activity where are you and what are you doing?

Group discussion skills

Group discussions occur in many different formats – from very informal ones between friends to highly structured and challenging discussions included as part of a selection process.

Stirrers and settlers for the primary classroom

Teaching in the primary classroom is very different from teaching teens or adults because of the amount of energy children have! Knowing how to channel this energy, or when to ‘stir' and when to ‘settle' children will help you achieve balanced lessons without children becoming over-excited on the one hand or bored on the other.

Asking questions

Asking questions is a natural feature of communication, but also one of the most important tools which teachers have at their disposal.

Strategies for keeping attention

Keeping students' attention and stopping them from getting distracted is a big challenge.