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Gestire una classe include diversi aspetti:clima di classe,la leadship del docente,tipo di autorità,le dinamiche della classe Il clima di classe puo essere influienzato d aatteggiamenti che danneggiano la relazione educativa,mentre la leadership del docente può essere inesistente,autoritaria,autorevole,democratica,distaccata.Si deve propendere per la figura dell’insegnante assertivo,attraverso la osservazione sistematica delle dinamiche della classe. Se la leadership nel tempo ...
Text Chat Activities is self-published resource book from Mark Oliver. The book, published in late 2015, provides 29 ICT-based lesson tasks focusing on pair and group work. It is available as an e-book only. The introductory section gives an overview of text chat, explaining what it is and how text chat activities can benefit learners. Here’s Oliver’s ...
Thank you to Yvonne Dagan for this month's IH Journal blog post on job hunting in the TEFL market, a topic which will be continued in the upcoming summer edition of the IH Journal... Job Awareness, Apply Responsibly Part 1 People often ask me where I am going to work next and are enchanted when I say ...
What do oven gloves, life-size cardboard advertisements, aliens and puppets have in common? This month, Alex Zagorac of BKC-IH Moscow looks at how using what was at hand in the classroom changed the way his young learners and adults alike interacted and engaged with an activity. Puppets in ELT – The Ace up Your Sleeve Puppets ...
This month's blog post is by Anthony Ash - many thanks for his contribution. Flipping the Lesson in ELT Flipped Learning is a lesson framework whose goal, as its name suggests, is to flip or invert the traditional lesson procedure. It has been growing in popularity over the last decade not only in general education but also in English Language Teaching. What started ...
This month's blog post comes from Glenn Standish, DOS at IH Toruń. Thank you Glenn! Postcards From IH: Motivating Teenagers to Write It’s mid-term in a long, tiring but productive academic year. You’ve just finished writing the endless stream of reports, the parents meetings are planned and you as a teacher are starting to feel rather burnt ...
Welcome to issue 39 of the IH Journal and our first edition of 2016. It’s been the usual busy start to the year for everyone involved in teaching and we’re no different. We have a larger than normal issue for you this time and there have been some changes to the Special Interest Columns, so ...
1) When a publisher looks to recruit a writer, what kind of profile are they looking for? There’s no one profile that will meet the requirements of every project, but there are a few key attributes that all ELT writers need to possess. The ability to follow a brief and work to a deadline are ...
Mainstream ELT publishing has been stuck in a rut for several years now. Major publishers are still churning out the same old books; lots of glossy covers and sales talk, but it’s the same kind of material. It is difficult for new talent to get published – safe names sell books, conferences, and webinars. The ...
Are your worksheets the envy of your friends? (Get some friends who aren’t teachers!) Could you write the next Cutting Edge? I certainly haven’t and probably couldn’t, but I’ve written some other bits and pieces, and it’s a peculiar sort of job. If you think you might be peculiar enough to join the fold, the ...