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Tech Tools for Teachers: Managing class interaction in online learning

By using a  variety of interaction patterns, online learning can become much more dynamic. This article lists the advantages and tips of a key part of online learning: breakout rooms.

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Business Spotlight: Your plan for 2020

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, offers 20 tips that can help everybody further their career. 

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Business Spotlight: Manna from heaven?

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about quantitative easing (QE) and what effects it could or might have on individuals and industry.

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Business Spotlight: How to deal with imposter syndrome

This lesson based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the psychological phenomenon of imposter syndrome and how it can affect people in their work.

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Advancing Learning: Developing real conversation skills

What is ‘conversation’ and how can teachers improve students’ conversation skills?  This article, by Kateryna Protsenko, looks at the different ways to improve this skill.

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Advancing Learning: EMI: English as a medium of instruction

What are the challenges of teaching curriculum subjects through English at Primary level? Liz McMahon looks at some of the issues.

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Business Spotlight: Communication to arrange communication is now normal

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how our ways of communicating have changed over the past few years, as a result of electronic communication.

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Advancing Learning: Confessions from an obsessive language learner: what I have learnt from continually studying languages for 32 years

Russell Stannard details how his own language learning has given him insights into how to better teach his students.

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Business Spotlight: Your workplace’s best friend?

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about taking pets into work.

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Advancing Learning: How to approach essay writing

What different approaches to essay writing are there and how can they help your learners? Academic English specialist and teacher trainer Kerry Boakes explains three different approaches to essay writing and offers practical tips on how they can be used in the classroom.

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Advancing Learning: Helping very young learners improve their collaboration skills

Introducing collaborative tasks in a preschool setting can be daunting. Young learner expert Sarah Hillyard offers her tips and advice for teaching young learners how to collaborate, as well as suggesting activities that can help them learn through collaboration. 

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Advancing Learning: Multisensory learning in the inclusive classroom

Maria Byrne, Affiliate Trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) and lead tutor on the NILE Learning Differences and Inclusion course, shares her experience of working with dyslexic teens and suggests some simple, multisensory learning techniques that can help learners with dyslexia in the classroom.

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Advancing Learning: Guilt-free teaching – how your students learn more when you plan less

Teacher and polyglot Katie Harris explains how you can save time and increase student engagement when lesson planning, so that you can lighten your workload without feeling guilty.

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Business Spotlight: Good for business

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about diversity at work.

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Advancing Learning: The challenges of speaking

Why is speaking a foreign language so difficult, and how can we help our students do it better? Teacher and editor Emma Fox explains why speaking is so challenging and offers a range of activities and techniques you can take straight to the classroom.

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Advancing Learning: The fifth skill – 'viewing'

We all know about the traditional four skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. But what about the fifth skill of ’viewing’? Kieran Donaghy, expert in the use of visual arts in language teaching, explains what viewing is, why it’s important and how you can implement it in the classroom.

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Advancing Learning: Teaching mediation

‘Mediation’ is the latest ELT buzzword. But what exactly is it, and why should you teach it? Thom Kiddle, Director of Norwich Institute for Language Education and Vice Chair of Eaquals, explains all.

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Business Spotlight: Sound design

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about noise in the workplace.

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Advancing Learning: Making blended learning useful and effective

Getting the blend right between face-to-face and online learning and technologies can be a challenge. Award-winning educational technologist and teacher trainer Russell Stannard reveals how to approach it for best results.

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Advancing Learning: Five strategies to help students cultivate a growth mindset

What is a ‘growth mindset’, and how can it help your students? Teacher trainer and author Chia Suan Chong explains all and offers five strategies you can employ.