Managing the Lesson

This booklet helps teachers identify areas for development and provide ways to improve their knowledge and develop the skills they need in and out of the classroom. Teacher educators can use the materials with developing teachers to help assess and address their learning needs.

Teachers can explore lesson management skills, including:

• how to use the classroom space and classroom equipment 
• putting learners into different groups
• giving clear instructions and checking that learners have understood 

The booklet also includes how to manage learner behaviour and how to respond to what’s happening in the classroom by making small changes to the lesson plan. Finally, teachers are encouraged to think about decisions after the lesson and use that experience to improve ideas and techniques for future lessons.

Source British Council Teaching English https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/managing-lesson-self-study-booklet

Download it from:

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/J105_04_Managing_the_lesson.pdf

Skills Workshop (English) @skillsworkshop

Owned and maintained by Maggie Harnew, skillsworkshop dates back to the year 2000. The site has been hosted and developed by Fonant Ltd since 2011.

Adult Literacy, Functional English, and GCSE Resources selected by subject area, level and type. From any list of resources, you can click on the resource title or thumbnail image to go to the individual resource page. Here you will find full details for your selected resource, including a description, links to related resources and the downloadable files.

Website:

https://www.skillsworkshop.org/english

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/skillsworkshop

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/skillsworkshop.org

The History of English Podcast

Created by Kevin Stroud, The History of English Podcast: The Spoken History of a Global Language is a collection of approximately hour-long podcasts that explore the development of the English language from its roots. 

An amazing resource for word and language lovers.

Episodes can be listened to online or downloaded.

Webpage:

http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/englishhistpod

Make Me Genius

Free science videos for kids. Tons of engaging videos to support or enrich your science instruction, cool facts, educational PowerPoints, jokes for kids, science test & quiz... 

Videos are arranged into different categories and grades

Website:

http://www.makemegenius.com/

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/MakeMeGenius

On Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/makemegenius

Estancias formativas en el Reino Unido e Irlanda y de inmersión lingüística

Recientemente se ha publicado la RESOLUCIÓN de 6 de febrero de 2019, de la Secretaría Autonómica de Educación e Investigación, por la que se convoca la realización de estancias formativas de inmersión lingüística y estancias formativas en el Reino Unido e Irlanda para el profesorado de Educación Infantil, Primaria, Secundaria y Formación Profesional de centros públicos y concertados ubicados en el ámbito territorial de la Comunitat Valenciana

Se ofrecerán un total de dos mil plazas para la realización de las estancias, distribuidas por grupos, en función de la etapa educativa y del área en que el profesorado imparta la docencia.

El plazo de presentación de solicitudes empezará a partir del día siguiente de la publicación de esta convocatoria en la pagina web de la Conselleria de Educación, Investigación, Cultura y Deporte y finalizará el 4 de marzo de 2019 a las 23:59 horas.

Instrucciones:

http://www.ceice.gva.es/documents/162880217/167522484/Instrucciones+Convocatoria+Estancias+2019+pdf.pdf/e60589f1-4484-4fb9-b46c-a66137875c67

Texto de la resolución:

http://www.ceice.gva.es/documents/162880217/167522484/RES_ESTANCIAS+EXTRANJERO_2019DEFpdf.pdf/57add27c-93f7-4043-b8d3-14745d39045a

Happy birthday Mr. Dickens!

Charles Dickens was born on February 7th in 1812 in Portsmouth. He left school to work in a factory when he was just a child. Despite his lack of formal education, he began his literary career as a journalist and became the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

Remembering him on his birthday, we have compiled a list of interesting resources about Dickens and his works:

Charles Dickens Teaching Resources (TES)

https://www.tes.com/articles/charles-dickens-teaching-resources

Charles Dickens Teacher's Resources (BBC)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/charles_dickens/teachers_resources.shtml

Charles Dickens (Teaching English. British Council)

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-teens/uk-culture/charles-dickens

Charles Dickens (British Library)

https://www.bl.uk/people/charles-dickens

Charles Dickens (Teaching Ideas)

https://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/authors/charles-dickens

Dickens (Victorian Web)

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/index.html

An Introduction to Design Thinking

Design thinking refers to the cognitive, strategic and practical processes by which design concepts (proposals for new products, buildings, machines, etc.) are developed by designers and/or design teams. 

Many of the key concepts and aspects of design thinking have been identified through studies, across different design domains, of design cognition and design activity in both laboratory and natural contexts. Currently there is a growing interest towards Design Thinking as applied in education.

This guide is an introduction to Design Thinking provided by the Institute of Design at Stanford:

https://dschool-old.stanford.edu/sandbox/groups/designresources/wiki/36873/attachments/74b3d/ModeGuideBOOTCAMP2010L.pdf

900 Free Audio Books

If you are interested in literature, you can download more than 900 free audio books in English language to your MP3 player or your computer from this website:

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

Creating an inclusive learning experience for English language learners with specific needs

This collection of case studies aims to share some experiences in promoting positive attitudes and thinking around specific needs. It also aims to describe teaching and classroom management strategies to create an inclusive learning environment and positive experience for English language learners with specific needs.

Each case study is followed by a reflection activity that can be used for training.

Free to download publication on:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/B480_Special%20Need_Publication_A4_V5_Final_MR.pdf

JCT English resources @jctEnglish

Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) is a dedicated continuing professional development (CPD) support service of the Department of Education and Skills (Ireland). 

Their aim is to support schools through the provision of appropriate high quality CPD for school leaders and teachers and the provision of effective teaching and learning resources.

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/JCTenglish 

https://www.jct.ie/english/english

Five Components of Effective Oral Language Instruction

This manual has been compiled by members of the Professional Development Service for Teachers (Ireland). Its purpose is to enhance teaching and learning in Irish primary schools and will be mediated to practising teachers in the professional development setting.

It is available as a free downloadable resource on:

https://pdst.ie/sites/default/files/14.%20Five%20Components%20of%20Oral%20Language.pdf

YouTube Channel for VR and AR Education by @steve_bambury

Steve Bambury, currently the Head of Digital Learning and Innovation across the JESS Dubai school group, shares this amazing YouTube Channel for VR and AR Education and Training content with one of the largest collection of 360º videos on YouTube, curated into subject-specific playlists.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzhIRzWVoFXM-Hdf5PUVJ_g/playlists

Visit also VirtualiTech, his non-profit website dedicated to AR and VR in Education on:

https://www.virtualiteach.com/

BBC Sound Effects

More than 15,000 sound effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under these terms:

https://github.com/bbcarchdev/Remarc/blob/master/doc/2016.09.27_RemArc_Content%20licence_Terms%20of%20Use_final.pdf

The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes.

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

Christmas Time

When the Puritans banned Christmas

In 1659 the Puritan government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned Christmas. This religious minority considered that such celebration was unnecessary and that it distracted from religious discipline as the daily celebrations often led to drunkenness, promiscuity, gambling and other forms of excess. They also felt that celebrating Christmas would be idolatry due to this holiday's pagan origins.

Pixabay (@pixabay)

Since Pixabay was launched in November 2010 a growing community (over 100,000 peopel from allover the world) has turned this project into the greatest, high-quality source for free images and videos. 

With a total of 1.5 million free images, most of them photos (1.2 million) and several hundred thousands of illustrations, vector graphics and clip arts, Pixabay is the largest collection of free quality images.

You can search public domain images by using keywords or by browsing through the libraries. You can download them in different sizes.

Pixabay is one of the best choices to find free quality images for classroom projects avoiding copyright violations.

Webpage:

https://pixabay.com/

Blog: https://pixabay.com/es/blog/

Forum: https://pixabay.com/es/forum/

App on GooglePlay:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixabay.pixabayapp

App on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1178021455

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/pixabay

A Christmas Carol: A Reading by Monica Dickens

Lilu's House. Language Skills through Experiments

For children, everyday life is full of questions. Inspired by this, an international teacher team from seven countries developed specific ideas and practical advice on how to promote the basic scientific knowledge of primary school children while simultaneously training their skills in reading, writing and speaking. Available in English and German. (Source Science on Stage)

Brochure in English.

https://www.science-on-stage.de/images/downloads/ws17233_SonSDE_Broschuere_SpracheGS_EN_WEB.pdf

Additional materials:

https://www.science-on-stage.de/page/display/en/7/126/0/102/lilus-haus-zusatzmaterialien/

Other free of charge teaching materials developed by European STEM teachers and offered by Science on Stage:

https://www.science-on-stage.de/page/display/en/7/7/0/unterrichtsmaterialien/

DeepGrammar

DeepGrammar is a grammar checker that integrates deep symbolic processing and deep learning (artificial neural networks). It uses deep learning to learn a model of language, and it then uses this model to check text for errors in three steps:

- Compute the likelihood that someone would have intended to write the text.

- Attempt to generate text that is close to the written text but is more likely.

- If such text is found, show it to the user as a possible correction.

The following page demonstrates a prototype of DeepGrammar.

http://www.deepgrammar.com/

Grammar Gamble

Grammar Gamble is an English grammar test that helps you learn English faster.

Simply log in, answer 10 questions and build the highest score you can. At each question you can bet some of your 'money' on the answer. If you choose right, you win the money. If you choose wrong, you lose it.

Grammar Gamble is aimed at Intermediate English learners, although all learners will enjoy it. (Source Grammar Gamble).

http://www.grammargamble.com/