Behind the numbers: Ending school violence and bullying

This UNESCO publication provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of global and regional prevalence and trends related to school-related violence and examines the nature and impact of school violence and bullying. 

It reviews national responses, focusing on countries that have seen positive trends in prevalence and identifies factors that have contributed to an effective response to school violence and bullying. 

(Source: UNESCO)

Download it from:

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000366483/PDF/366483eng.pdf.multi

Seeking Safety

Seeking Safety is an Amnesty International UK human rights resource on asylum and refugee issues.

It encourages students to draw parallels with their own lives. Many of the activities build on an empathetic understanding of situations to develop knowledge and skills for approaching the subject of asylum. Pupils are encouraged to expand their understanding beyond themselves: to think globally and to think about human rights.

It can be used in stand-alone lessons or in projects.

(Source Amnesty International UK)

Download it from:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2017-06/Activity%20-%20Seeking%20safety.pdf?QEgP75_LXPGt0d91YCDXgx0efPQ4Sl3u=

News in Slow English

Weekly intermediate English language learning program. Real conversations about current events, grammar and idiomatic expressions, delivered at a slower pace to enhance comprehension.

The website includes a comprehensive catalog of grammar and expressions lessons.

A useful resource if you are learning English as a Second Language

https://www.newsinslowenglish.com/?switch_lang=-1

Atlas Obscura

Atlas Obscura is a global community of explorers, who have together created a comprehensive database of the world’s most wondrous places and foods. 

They publish articles about hidden places, incredible history, scientific marvels, and gastronomical wonders.

Website:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Simple English Wikipedia

Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages.

The Simple English Wikipedia uses simple English words and grammar. This allows people to understand normally complex terms or phrases. Its more than 150,000 articles are very interesting for children and adults who are learning English.

Visit it on:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Scientific work- Research project

Recurso educativo abierto (REA) desarrollado por el profesorado de biología, geología e inglés del IES Antonio de Nebrija de Zalamea de la Serena como proyecto de investigación para el alumnado de Biología y Geología de 4º de ESO de la sección bilingüe en inglés.

El recurso combina el objetivo de familiarizarse con el método científico con el uso de TIC y la utilización del inglés como lengua de trabajo desde un enfoque AICLE (uso de la lengua extranjera como medio de aprendizaje de contenidos de áreas o materias curriculares no lingüísticas.

Podéis ver una descripción del material en el siguiente enlace:

https://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/285-proyecto-crea/3327-scientific-work-research-project

Acceso al recurso:

https://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/crea/mentorizados/scientificwork/scientificwork/index.html

UNESCO Observatory on the Right to Education

Education is a fundamental human right of every woman, man and child. Nonetheless, it is still not a reality for millions and it is violated every single day. 

The Observatory on the Right to Education provides documentation and information concerning the implementation of the right to education at every level. It provides different options to browse its database: country profiles, a library with about 1.000 documents, and search tools to find information within the country profiles. 

Visit it on: 

http://www.unesco.org/education/edurights/index.php?action=home&lng=en

Teaching and Learning with Twitter

With this resource, Twitter and UNESCO hope to draw on their respective expertise in information, technology, media, and MIL to offer practical advice that informs pedagogical methods and outcomes.

If you want to design lessons around media and information literacy and how it relates to global citizenship and digital citizenship education it will be useful for you.

You can download Teaching and Learning with Twitter from:

https://about.twitter.com/content/dam/about-twitter/values/twitter-for-good/en/teaching-learning-with-twitter-unesco.pdf

Google Tools for English Language Learners by @ericcurts

Tips to help you improve your English skills with Google tools: translation tools, speech-to-text tools, text-to-speech tools, dictionary tools, summarization tools and more. 

A post by Eric Curts on his amazing blog Control Alt Achieve.

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2018/08/google-ell.html?spref=tw

NeoK12.com

Watching educational videos and animations is a great way to learn because it allows kids to build a visual model in their mind. 

NeoK12.com offers educational videos for school kids. NeoK12 website also features innovative tools for learning and teaching: Quiz Games, Interactive Diagrams, Flow Chart Games, Vocabulary Games and other educational games & puzzles

Visit it on:

https://www.neok12.com/

National #AIDS Trust. Educational resources

World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December each year. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day.

The National AIDS Trust (UK) offers free educational resources to have a better understanding of the realities of living with HIV and to know how to protect yourself from infection. Good practices, World AIDS day Resources, ideas, lesson plans and activities...

Visit:

https://www.nat.org.uk/teachers-resources

Douglas Wise Education Blog

The Douglas Wise website was created to provide educational commentary and teaching resources. Douglas Wise is a teacher of English and assistant principal (teaching and learning) at a secondary comprehensive school in Northampton.

Amazing blog with many educational and ELT resources.

Visit the website on:

https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/DoWise

Flashcard Stash

Created by David Lynam in 2009, Flashcard Stash (originally WordStash) allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can easily add images to your flashcards from Wikipedia and Flickr.

Flashcard Stash is built on top of a dictionary and contains over 200,000 English words and phrases. This helps when creating vocabulary flashcards by allowing you to select existing definitions.

Flashcard Stash has been designed with a game element. It has an integrated points system that rewards you with points as you learn. (Source Flashcard Stash)

Visit:

http://flashcardstash.com/

Audio Joiner

Audio Joiner is a free online tool you can use to combine multiple audio tracks into one. There is no limit on the number of tracks you can join. Audio Joiner supports more than 300 audio formats and converts them to mp3.

Visit:

https://audio-joiner.com/

The Great Thanksgiving Listen

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States (4th Thursday in November), Canada, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia. 

The Great Thanksgiving Listen is a national movement that empowers young people and people of all ages to create an oral history of the contemporary United States by recording an interview with an elder, mentor, friend, or someone they admire using the free StoryCorps App. (Source: The Great Thanksgiving Listen)

If you want to know about it visit: 

https://storycorps.org/participate/the-great-thanksgiving-listen/

Humanising Language Teaching

Edited by Hania Kryszewska and published by Pilgrims, Humanising Language Teaching is a free online magazine for teachers of English. Since 1999 it offers ELT articles and ELT resources, lesson plans, book reviews, CLIL resources and more.

Visit this magazine on:

https://www.hltmag.co.uk/

Fall of the Berlin Wall

It's been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall For many years, the Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany, acting as a barrier that symbolised the political divisions of the time.

On November 9, 1989, the East German government announced that all East Germany citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. When the Italian reporter Riccardo Ehrmann asked Günter Schabowski, the spokesman for the SED Politburo, when this would apply, Schabowski seemed unsure, but then said "immediately". Within minutes, crowds gathered at the border demanding to cross.

Some educational resources about the rise and fall of the Berlin:

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2216&context=gradreports
https://study.com/academy/popular/berlin-wall-lesson-plan.html

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:berlin%20wall%20activities

https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/spr/unt/kum/-frv.html?forceDesktop=1

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/berlin-wall/11657754

https://www.gale.com/intl/archives-explored/berlin-wall

Expresso

Expresso is an interactive tool to analyze, edit and compare text styles in English. You can use Expresso to monitor changes in your writing style over time or to highlight weak parts of a text which can benefit from stylistic changes.

It will teach you to express yourself through writing more efficiently and help make your texts more readable, precise, and engaging. Expresso does not save entered texts to protect privacy.  

(Source: Expresso)

Discover it on:

https://www.expresso-app.org/

Educandy

With Educandy you can generate 8 types of engaging activities in minutes. You enter your words, questions and answers and this service turns your content into interactive games.

You can also share those games through a unique code that is generated when you create the activities.

https://www.educandy.com/

On Twitter @educandydotcom

https://twitter.com/educandydotcom

On Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/educandydotcom

App on GooglePlay

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.educandy.student

App on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/educandy/id1436579473

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