In recent years, the use of coaching techniques in ELT has become increasingly widespread. The shift in role from teacher to coach has perhaps been prompted to some extent by the possible financial rewards it can bring, but when working in corporate settings with adult learners, establishing a coach / coachee relationship in the classroom, […]
Educational technologies
Make your own multi-media reading materials
There’s a wide selection of good quality self-access sites available to language learners these days. News in Levels, for example, offers learners reading and video material that is updated on a daily basis. I’ve been trying out a newish web tool that allows teachers to deliver to their learners attractively presented multi-media reading material in a […]
It’s ‘busy work’ getting learners to do homework
The aim of the well-attended pre-conference symposium at the IATEFL BESIG Annual Conference in Bonn – organised as a workshop followed by a panel discussion – was to offer delegates some ideas and strategies for encouraging learners to take their English studies beyond the classroom. In the panel discussion, Marjorie Rosenberg reminded us what homework […]
Moderating the Cert IBET
My first contact with the Consultants-E (TCE) was in 2006 when I took a course which subsequently evolved into the now defunct Trinity validated Cert ICT course. Like many others at the time, I was soon hooked on online training and took a succession of other courses with TCE. Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney, the […]
