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ArticleAdvancing 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.
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Advancing Learning: Does anyone really need to use a dictionary?
Why use a dictionary when you can Google a word? Dictionary expert Michael Rundell answers this question by looking at the strengths of lexical resources today.
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Advancing Learning: Moving towards learning-friendly teaching
What is ‘brain-friendly’ teaching, and how can it help your students advance their learning? Teacher trainer and author Anna Hasper explains all.
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Business Spotlight: The fear of speaking in public
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, offers tips and practical advice for speaking in public.
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Advancing Learning: The secrets of using learning routines with young children
What are ‘learning routines’ and why should you use them with your young learner classes? Expert author Carol Read explains all, offering tips and practical advice.
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Was it something I said?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the importance of small talk in the workplace.
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Advancing Learning: Gamification
This authoritative report by the President of the Board of Directors of the TESOL International Association, Dr Deborah Healey, examines gamification and its uses in education.
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Advancing Learning: Online Language Teacher Education
This informative research report, commissioned by the Association for Quality Education and Training Online, examines online education for language teachers.
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Advancing Learning: A practical guide to online professional development
How do you choose the right kind of online professional development to suit your budget and your needs? Experienced online trainer Gavin Dudeney gives tips and advice.
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Advancing Learning: Empowering students with paraphrasing strategies
Paraphrasing is a skill that is often assessed in exams. Experienced teacher and assessment writer Judy Alden examines how to teach it, offering practical tips and techniques you can take straight to the classroom.
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Advancing Learning: Top tips for managing your pre-primary classroom
Teacher trainer and author Lorena Peimbert offers tips and advice on managing pre-primary classes.
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Advancing Learning: Long live 'Life Skills'!
What are ‘Life Skills’, and why should you teach them to your language students? David Spencer explains all.
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Advancing Learning: Global Citizenship Education in the ELT classroom
UCL researcher Matthew Hayes looks at why and how to bring Global Citizenship Education into the English language classroom.
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Business Spotlight: Is space exploration a waste of money?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, discusses whether space exploration is a good investment.
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Business Spotlight: Working effectively across cultures
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about intercultural communication within business.
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Business Spotlight: Fit for work
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, discusses whether we sit down too much at work.
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Business Spotlight: (Block)chain reaction
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about is about supply-chain management (SCM) and ’blockchain’.
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Business Spotlight: Protecting valuable ideas
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about patents and how ideas can be protected.
