Year 7 read John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas this year and some of my EAL lessons focused on the novel in order to provide language for understanding and expression of context, characters and themes. I taught most of these lessons online this year, so there are often questions and varied tasks for... Continue Reading →
Building in interaction to online lessons in an international school context
Last week I shared some ideas with my school about building in interaction into online lessons combining my experience from ELT and E-moderation, alongside a few webinars I've watched recently. The first suggestion was simply to think of building in tasks to any text which was being presented making tasks active rather than passive. The... Continue Reading →
EAL, ELT and all that jazz.
Ever wondered what EAL is? I have found out it's a bit like a cousin of ELT - they've got a lot in common, but aren't quite the same. Here's what I've discovered so far after a couple of months in EAL and this post is as much as about me getting it all straight... Continue Reading →
The Teacher Trials 