Articles tagged ‘Lesson Plans’
Saving A Lesson Gone Bad
By Katie | January 24th, 2008 |
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With experience I get better, but I don’t get perfect. What do you do when a lesson starts to go sour? This could mean that students really don’t catch on to the task or language point, or just don’t like the activity.
If students seem not to get it, it could be that my instructions [...]
What’s Involved In Planning A Lesson?
By Katie | December 10th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Start here for the background please.
Vocabulary can be considered a lesson of its own: see how to teach a box of words (coming soon!)
I’d start by deciding what I’d cover and what my aims were. When you are working with a syllabus / from a book, this is pretty straightforward.
I would read the text [...]
Substitute Teaching: Covering Classes
By Katie | April 11th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
It’s bound to happen sooner or later: your colleague is sick and you have to teach his class on short notice.
In some larger schools (at least one that I worked at), full time teachers may even have time in their schedule where they are required to be on the premises in case someone is sick. [...]
Webquest At Grammarmancomic.com: Get Your EFL Students To Create Their Own Comics
By Katie | April 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Do you need a project to keep your kids’ class busy til the term ends? My own experience teaching kids is rather limited, but it’s not hard to notice that kids everywhere like drawing and cartoons. Exploit this natural interest and use English in the process with the comic-creating Webquest: Awesome Comics activity from [...]
Online EFL Resources?
By Katie | April 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Do you find and use activities online? When I started writing the TEFL Logue, I thought it was time for me to get acquainted with much of what’s available online for EFL teachers – not just other blogs but sites with lesson plans and advice. Despite my experience teaching, and generally being an [...]
Sharing ESL Classes
By Katie | February 25th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Sharing classes – when two or more teachers switch off teaching the same group - has pros and cons. If you have a group for a long time, it means you won’t tire of each other as quickly, and you have longer to go before using up your stock of activities. If you’re [...]
One More Reason To Get A TEFL Certificate
By Katie | February 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In Is A TEFL certificate “enough”? I explained my thoughts on this, specifically that a one-month intensive course, no matter how good it is, is not going to make or break a teacher. But here’s the thing: language school-type teaching is usually quite different from the teaching most of us experienced in our foreign [...]
Signs Of A Bad School, Part 2
By Katie | February 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
What’s not so spot on: This is part 2 of my thoughts on Consider Your Teaching Job Carefully: Bad English Language Schools Can Happen To Good Teachers at Transitions Abroad. Find out what I think is spot on and also what you can do if you find yourself working for a school that treats [...]
TEFL Tip: Setting Time Limits
By Katie | January 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
When you give your students a task, it often makes sense to give a time limit with it. Like other things in TEFL, this rule doesn’t need to be set in stone, but there are a few reasons why it’s useful:
It gives students “warning” about how much time they have and also gives them [...]
Stress In And Out Of The TEFL Classroom
By Katie | January 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My latest EFL read is the July 2006 issue of Modern English Teacher where I found an article on reducing teacher stress. Paul Bress points out that nowadays people expect more from their jobs – so not only do employees, including EFL teachers, put more pressure on employers, but also, I think, on themselves.
Paul [...]
