Real Fun and Fake Fun
The InnovateELT 2018 conference theme was: Fun?! Delight and Struggle in ELT. In this post I will reflect on some key points which emerged for... Read More
Plenary: Do students really want fun in the ELT classroom?
This is the transcript of my plenary ‘Do students really want fun in the ELT classroom?’, which I gave on Saturday 12 May 2018 at... Read More
If I’m not suffering, am I learning?
Bindi Clements is Instructional Design and Efficacy Manager at Wall Street English, and will be exploring some interesting discrepancies between what teachers and students think... Read More
Trouble and Strife in Teacher Observation
From my earliest foray into Teacher Observation on one side of the desk when I was a budding ELT teacher to my more recent experiences... Read More
How authentic video can add classroom ‘fun’
Elena Deleyto is a scriptwriter and producer at Digital Learning Associates and will be talking about how video can add to the fun at iELT18.... Read More
The Conversation Experience
Jędrzej Stępień will be doing a demo lesson with real students at #iELT18, where attendees will get a better understanding of what are good, educative questions,... Read More
Fun & Challenge in the YL Classroom
While fun is an important element in the young learner (YL) classroom, it’s not just simply colouring, playing games and singing. Teachers of this age... Read More
Getting Better at Listening: Just for the Phon of it.
Oxford Tefl Dip TESOL tutor Shaun Sweeney will be doing a live lesson at iELT. In this video he talks about the background to planning... Read More
Loose parts in the young learner classroom
Loose parts play refers to the use of materials that can moved, put together, taken apart and used in any way children desire. This post... Read More
Visualise this!
Teresa is a course tutor on the Trinity CertTESOL in Active Language, Cádiz. She’ll be presenting a workshop on guided visualisation at the conference this... Read More
Exploring group dynamics
Oxford TEFL Director Duncan Foord will be presenting the Pre-Conference Training Session ‘Exploring Group Dynamics’ at the upcoming InnovateELT conference. In this blog post he... Read More