It’s easy these days to get carried away with all the talk about advances in educational technology and what the latest, coolest web-based resource is. The truth for many teachers and students around the world is that they are lucky to have one computer and a projector in class and even luckier to have internet [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’
PALAYOK: Reinvention of a Traditional Game for EFL Classrooms (by Marco Brazil)
Cultural Background Ask any Filipinos about Pukpuk Palayok or Hampas Palayok, and chances are they played it or saw it played at least once during their childhoods. The game is so immensely popular that any celebration or town fiesta is not complete without children (oh yes, sometimes adults) playing it. Having been colonized by the [...]
The Star Festival: Teaching Tanabata in English
Part of the series: EFL Makeovers July 7th is Tanabata, or the Star Festival, in Japan. Legend says that Orihime (a weaver, represented by the star Vega) and Hikoboshi (a cowherd, represented by the star Altair) are allowed to cross the Milky Way to meet each year on the seventh evening of the seventh month [...]
Digital Digits: Creative Ideas for Finger Plays (by Shelly Sanchez Terrell)
I teach students between the ages of two- and six-years-old. When you teach young learners you discover how much they love finger plays. The children memorize the English quickly and are able to repeat the words and actions on their own. Introducing the Finger Play Finger plays are best used in the classroom with the [...]
Formative Assessment (by Matthew Spira)
I was thirty-two years old the first time I stepped into a kindergarten classroom as an English instructor. Because I previously had fairly extensive leadership experience as a military officer, the general manager of a multi-million dollar software company, and as an operations manager within a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, I just didn’t think teaching children [...]
Siklot: Reinvention of a Traditional Game for EFL Classrooms (by Marco Brazil)
“Flick a card. Flick a card. Start the game, And let’s have fun!”
Music and Movement for Young English Learners (by Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina)
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 can assist you in using these powerful tools to teach [...]
Children are Always Cute (by Esra Girgin Akiskali)
“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. Witcraft Children are always cute and eager to learn but [...]
Teaching Young Learners with Songs (by Matt Richelson)
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 into the classroom has been very natural for me. What [...]
Moving Your Kindergarten into Web 2.0 with 5 Different Tools (by Özge Karaoğlu)
“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow” John Dewey Kindergarten has always been the place to make friends, paint pictures, tell stories, play games and have fun while learning. Wooden blocks and legos have always been favorites in kindergarten classes. Today, the world is undergoing a digital change, [...]
