Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Last November, Carolyn Graham did a workshop at the JALT National Conference in Shizuoka, Japan, on how to make a Jazz Chant. I taped her workshop, and with her permission am sharing the part of it where she demonstrates her technique. One of the many [...]
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Never under-estimate what your students can teach you! (by Berni Wall)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know As an EFL teacher with a long career, I’ve been around the block a few times! I’ve taught all levels from kindergarten to mature adults and I think I’ve learnt one or two things along the way. However, for me, I think the lesson that [...]
Love and Respect (by Melania Paduraru)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know A few days ago, a much younger colleague of mine in her first teaching year was complaining about how difficult it is to be a teacher and how stressed she feels when entering a classroom full of 14 year-olds who sometimes give her a really [...]
Music and Movement for Young English Learners (by Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Matt Richelson makes some excellent points about the power of music in the EFL classroom in his recent article, “Teaching Young Learners With Songs.” I use music and movement daily with young learners in the English classroom. Let me add a few more suggestions that [...]
Children are Always Cute (by Esra Girgin Akiskali)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know “A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” Forest E. [...]
The Wonder of Contact! (by Hadley Ferguson)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know More on Hadley’s adventures in online collaboration. If you’d like to read the beginning of this adventure, check out “New Friends” It was a marvelous day for my students when we got to share the learning that went on in our classroom with people living [...]
Teaching Young Learners with Songs (by Matt Richelson)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Barbara was so kind to ask me to write about how to use songs with young learners. I have learned a lot from teaching English using songs, and I am happy to share what I know. I have a background in music, and bringing music [...]
Individual Differences Count (by Mike Harrison)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family” Virginia Satir, author and psychotherapist (1916-1988) My experience as [...]
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