How to deal with quiet students?
Quiet students It is heartbreaking to see that some language teachers favor confident, outspoken students and see with a critical eye students who prefer to sit back and be quiet. These teachers think that...
Category: Class management
Ten Tips for Motivating the Unmotivated
Motivating the Unmotivated For those teachers looking for tips to deal with unmotivated students, this is a presentation by Ken Wilson in which he suggests ten ways for motivating the unmotivated. It is a...
Teaching large classes: problems and suggested techniques
Teachers often complain, not without reason, about teaching large classes. These unlucky teachers not only suffer from the pedagogical shortcomings of large classes, but also from the stress these classes produce. This post will...
Teaching techniques
Here is a presentation that focuses on techniques to manage your class and to teach different language skills. Teaching Techniques from Lucy Castanon
2011 Best Posts
This is a list of 2011 best posts. They are mainly about lesson plans and teaching methods. Some readers were also interested in class management and student-teacher relationships. Situational Language Teaching The importance of...
Why Stop Teaching?
Stop teaching! That’s what I say to myself when I feel I’m too invasive in my teaching, when I interfere too much in the classroom activities, when I jump at every hurdles that my...
Reflective teaching and action research
Reflective teaching is a kind of action research, a reflective process of progressive problem solving led by teachers to understand their practice and improve the way they address issues and solve problems. It helps...
Five mistakes new teachers should avoid
Mistakes new teachers should avoid New teachers might be busy thinking about what they should do to manage their first year in the profession like how to prepare lesson plans, how to involve students...
Difficult Classes
Difficult Classes Have you ever had a difficult class? How was it? What makes a class difficult ? How do you define it? Well here are some of the answers you may come up...
Instilling discipline and disciplinary action in the classroom
This article is about instilling discipline and disciplinary action in the classroom. For a definition of discipline and the causes of indiscipline visit the link below: Definition of descipline and the causes of indiscipline...