Methodology: Tips for Teachers
Home » Professional DevelopmentThese resources include suggestions from ELT experts on topics ranging from classroom management to creative teaching.
Lesson Share: Classroom management: Alternatives to whole class feedback
Amanda Gamble offers some practical tips and advice on giving whole class feedback.
Classroom management: Pair and group work in EFL/ESOL
This article discusses the challenges and benefits of using pair and group work in monolingual classes.
Classroom management: Teaching mixed-ability classes
Tim Bowen offers practical advice and suggestions on teaching English to students in mixed-ability classes.
Minimal resources: DIY grammar
Lindsay Clandfield and Adrian Tennant give us some great tips and ideas for creating do-it-yourself grammar lessons.
Minimal resources: Pub quiz
Create a pub quiz with your class
Minimal resources: Everyday objects
Jonathan Marks gives us some ideas for activities that make use of everyday objects that people carry around with them.
Digital tool selection: Introduction
The opening video and accompanying lesson idea in this series help you get to know your students’ digital lives.
Digital tool selection: Stimulating interaction
This lesson idea looks at how to stimulate interaction using collaborative writing.
Digital tool selection: Learner autonomy
This lesson idea looks at how to stimulate autonomy in your classes.
Debate: Classroom management
Adrian Tennant examines a number of areas often lumped together under the umbrella term 'Classroom Management' and suggests an approach to dealing with these issues and problems.
Debate: Is it possible to teach grammar?
Jim Scrivener has twenty-five years' teaching experience and if he's still unsure of how to teach grammar, is it possible at all?
Debate: The end of reading?
The full debate in response to Scott Thornbury's three-part article on the apparent paradoxical relationship between teaching reading and teaching language.
Teaching Practice
This indispensable classic helps you cope with different teaching scenarios when you are preparing to become a teacher of English or if you are preparing others to become English teachers.
Learning Teaching
The revised and extended edition of the ever-popular 1994 edition addresses the most important, challenging and interesting situations of the English classroom and provides assistance to coping with them.
Sound Foundations
This new and updated edition is a real help for teachers to feel comfortable when speaking and teaching pronunciation. The CD contains demonstrations of the activities with author's commentaries.
Advancing Teaching: Mental Health and Learning
Learn how to help and accommodate students going through difficult times or suffering from mental health issues.
Advancing Teaching: LGBTQ+ Visibility and Inclusion in ESL Classroom
Support and make your LGBTQ+ students feel more included and respected.
Advancing Teaching: Autistic students in ESL Classroom
Learn how you can help autistic students thrive in your classroom.
Introduction to Survival Guide
We’re Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord; two language teachers, teacher trainers and writers based in Spain. With more than forty years’ experience between us, we also consider ourselves survivors.
Survival Guide: Teacher’s survival kit
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord give a run-down of the ten most important tools in a teacher’s locker, plus five survival tools for mobile devices.
Survival Guide: First classes
Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.
Using Cuisenaire rods with young learners
Olha Madylus tells us what Cuisenaire rods are and why they are useful for teaching English to young learners.
Teaching materials: Teaching with the help of songs
This article by Paul Ashe suggests grammar activities and project work based around listening to music in the classroom.
Teaching materials: using readers in the EFL/ESL classroom 1
Advice and suggestions on using readers in the English classroom.
Imaginative materials: teaching with authentic materials
Catalogues, shop brochures and leaflets are a type of authentic material often available free and in quantity. Here are some ideas for using these, whether printed in English or another language.
Teaching creatively: What is creativity?
In the first article in this series, Chaz Pugliese explains what creativity is and looks at how we can develop our creativity.
Teaching creatively: The impact of creativity on students
In the second article in this series, Chaz Pugliese examines the impact that creativity can have on students.
Grammar: putting adjectives in order
Many higher level coursebooks include a focus on adjective order. Here are some tips for providing practice in this confusing area.
General: teaching with coursebooks
If your relationship with your coursebook is going a little stale, here are a baker’s dozen of ideas to inspire and provoke you.
Methodology: absolute beginners
An article offering suggestions and advice on teaching absolute beginners.
Skills: assessing speaking skills
Teachers are often asked to evaluate learner progress during courses, maybe by preparing progress tests. Teachers often feel unsure as to the best way to do this. Here are some ideas.
A third way
Hester Lott gives us some useful tips and suggestions for how to teach grammar.
From paragraph to poem
Steve Buckledee employs a poetic strategy for getting students to examine language in greater detail.