Building fluency with Upper Primary and Secondary EAL learners
If there is one thing that EAL learners struggle with, it is fluency. They find many of the different aspects of it difficult: speaking English doesn’t come easy to them,… Read more »
Category: Remote Teaching Ideas
In-class support vs Cognitive Load Theory
We started the academic year online. As you can imagine, virtual learning doesn’t easily lend itself to providing effective in-class support to EAL students. Nevertheless, we need to find a… Read more »
Open book assessments
I often hear my students say how anxious they are about Assessment Week, which is usually the last but one week of the term in my school. I find that… Read more »
My favourite online tools for virtual lessons
It’s almost been a year since we very suddenly had to make the transition from brick-and-mortar to online schools. I personally think that the teaching community worldwide has done incredibly… Read more »
Back to school speaking lesson ideas
I’m so excited to be going back to school! Like most of you I haven’t seen my students face-to-face for over 5 months. Thankfully, virtual learning worked out well for… Read more »
Visual storytelling with EAL students
I work in an international school in Malaysia, but my context is unconventional in that the majority of students in the school are EAL or Second Language students. Many learners… Read more »
Show-and-tell: 5 ways to make it work with EAL students
Covid-19 has undeniably changed the educational landscape. Whether that change is short- or long-term is to be seen, but being stuck at home and teaching online has been difficult in… Read more »
How I use the Zoom chat to support reading
I’ve recently been back to my physical classroom and it was a strange experience. My board still had the date on – March 17. My desk still had photocopies that… Read more »