How can you develop reading and writing skills in your learners as a TEYL teacher? Read this academic essay to discover new, efficient methods for TEYL, or specifically, teaching reading and writing to young learners. It is often considered that the reading and writing activities are very passive and even redundant for language learning. Many …
Conducting academic research and writing articles or papers is another way for educators to have quality professional development and close their own learning gaps. Our research focuses on CLIL, Theme-Based Instruction, and 21st-century skills. First, let’s dive into how we can use the Multiple Intelligences theory in ELT! My colleague Nevena Marković and I conducted our …
How come the lessons are free? Well, not everything in this world needs to cost money. I volunteer a lot, and since Halloween is my favorite holiday, I decided to open up my virtual classroom to the world and have children from various countries have fun online. Unfortunately, 2020 hasn’t been kind to us, so …
Hello, my dear colleagues! Storytelling, ICT and digital tools, preschool in the cloud™, young learners, and professional development are some of my favorite education words. So many people ask me about the professional development trainings I conduct. They ask how did I start, how they can begin their teaching training journey, and more. It takes …
Hello, my dear colleagues! This post will shed some light on how you can use Facebook for networking and share some great groups for teachers on Facebook. Why should you join teacher groups on Facebook? The quality of your teaching can improve by sharing your knowledge or by asking other teachers to share their knowledge. …
It is known that early language acquisition has to happen naturally, but how exactly can TEYL teachers help young learners learn a language? The situation in the past decade Over the past decade, many things have changed in the global education system. One of the most significant changes for us, as ESL teachers, is that …
Hello, my dear colleagues – this post is my official teacher review of Preply! As many of you already know, I am a teacher (duh, it’s pretty obvious based on my website?), I have been teaching online on Preply for years, and I will tell you all about it in this review. I love the …
Big holidays always leave enormous piles of garbage behind them, and teachers need to reduce the ELT footprint in any way possible. So keep reading this post to see how you can make a low-waste Halloween Zombieland lapbook! I love creating lap books, and I make them from many recyclables – I desperately try to promote low waste …
Hello, my dear, spooky colleagues & parents!This short post will share some ideas on how you can use the 30+ Page Interactive Halloween Quiet Activity Book in your classroom or home! Activities in this quiet book include Matching colors; Matching geometrical shapes; Matching sight words & shadows; Washing Dracula’s teeth; I spy with my little Halloween eye; …
How does inclusion in the ESL classroom happen? Is it even possible? The basic principle of inclusion states that all children have equal rights to education, regardless of their characteristics, cultural, or religious background. Let’s talk about the activity theory model! ? Savić (2009b: 11) adds that “humanistic teaching principles can be used asguidelines for respecting …