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Projects should be creative, collaborative, challenging and fun!
Olha Madylus, a teacher and teacher trainer specialising in both primary and secondary education, shares her thoughts on what makes a great class project. I visit a lot of classrooms around the world...
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5 Ways to Prepare Your Students for the 21st Century
In the first in a series of blog posts about 21st Century skills, (to accompany our teacher training videos on the same subject), author and English language teacher Charles Vilina provides some great...
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Critical Thinking in your lessons – It’s easier than you think!
In the second blog post in our series on 21st Century skills, (to accompany our teacher training videos on the same subject), Charles Vilina talks more specifically about critical thinking skills and...
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Improving communication skills with online tools
Michael Man, an Online Platforms Trainer at Oxford University Press, shows you how to use messaging, discussions and chats effectively with the new Online Practice and Online Workbooks. You can take...
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‘All together now’: using songs and actions for kindergarten classroom...
Photo courtesy of Gryphon House Margaret Whitfield, co-author of the forthcoming Kindergarten series, Show and Tell, offers some practical tips on using songs and games for Kindergarten classroom...
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Managing the Perfect Classroom
Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina, co-authors of the forthcoming Young Learners series, Oxford Discover, share some classroom management tips. As teachers of young learners, we all know the benefits of...
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Ready to write? Tips on preparing Kindergarten children to write
Margaret Whitfield, co-author of the forthcoming Kindergarten series, Show and Tell, offers some practical tips on preparing kindergarten children to write. Have you ever thought about how complex...
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25 ways of randomly placing students into pairs or groups
There are many benefits to getting students to work in pairs and groups. These range from giving students more speaking opportunities to creating better overall classroom dynamics. There are three...
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Teaching Beyond the 4Cs in the Secondary Classroom | 21st Century Skills
The development of the 4Cs – the skills of Critical thinking, Creativity, Communication and Collaboration – has been around in education and English language teaching for some time now. This has...
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Developing Global Skills in the ELT classroom | ELTOC 2020
In the simplest sense, global skills can be thought of as the skills which are essential to being a life-long learner and to be successful in the rapidly changing and unpredictable world of the 21st...
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Global Skills – Create Empowered 21st Century Learners
The world is changing at a rapid pace and it is hard for educators to even imagine what kind of skills and competences their learners will need 10, 20, 30 or even 50 years from now. What is clear,...
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How can we assess global skills? | ELTOC 2020
We all want our students to develop the global skills needed for modern life and work. We know that our teaching style, our classroom organisation, and what we expect of our students are critical in...
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Combining the Four Cs | ELTOC 2020
Here we’ll discuss the role of creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration in the English language classroom, and suggest some practical ideas for giving students a challenging new...
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