There seems to be a lot of anti-testing sentiment prevalent in the teaching world at the moment. There's a particular degree of vitriol that seems to be reserved for standardised testing, but which has tapped a general anti-educational zeitgeist and... Continue Reading →
A new initiative from the TED talks team, TED-Ed works with teachers to distill a great lesson into 10 minutes, animate it and put it up on youtube. Watch the introductory video here: And check out the TED-Ed youtube channel,... Continue Reading →
The following email from the British Council just popped up in my inbox - there's a couple of interesting testing related opportunities there: (1) three days work item testing for six hundred pounds (2) being trained up to be a... Continue Reading →
Following the #eltchat on 29th February, Sandy Millin has put together a brilliant summary of web tool recommendations for teachers: Web tool recommendations #eltchat summary Categories that come up include: Voice Recording / Video capture Bookmarking / Link Organisation Ready-Made... Continue Reading →
As part of explaining their approach to "open journalism", The Guardian has just released an advert depicting a version of the classic "three little pigs" story as it might have transpired today. They might as well have hung a banner... Continue Reading →
For all those of you that teach FCE preparation classes - here's a list of the best stuff I've found online for FCE prep. Most of the resources can be classified as either "online practice activities" or "teaching ideas" -... Continue Reading →
If you help learners prepare for one of the Cambridge exams, then you might be interested in their new competition: Cambridge English Teachers’ Competition 2012. All they want is one practical exam preparation idea, succinctly expressed in 300 words, for one... Continue Reading →
I once observed a colleague, also a great friend, who was possibly a little paranoid about running out of material in his classes, particularly the young learner classes. Before the class he gave me a copy of his lesson plan,... Continue Reading →
Well, it had to be written. You can blame the excellent “Behaviour management: what can we learn from Darth Vader and Yoda?” – a post by Simon Thomas on eflresource.com for the inspiration. Simon examines the lessons that the conflicting... Continue Reading →
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