ELT Planning

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• Tips for writing secondary materials, ELTA Rhine

  By Pete on April 29, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Teresa Bestwick tagged me in a tweet about materials writing earlier. ELTA Rhine were looking for someone to drop into a training session for pre-service teachers and chat about writing Secondary resources. Teresa was going to help, I really wanted… Read More ›

• EAL: History / Geography reviews

  By Pete on April 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s another insight into day-to-day EAL planning. Usual disclaimer on the look of the resources – time restraints, okay?! History and Geography were tough for our EAL learners in Term 1. They are so English-heavy and there’s tonnes to cover…. Read More ›

• Get published! Working with Peachey Publications

  By Pete on April 27, 2021 • ( 10 )

  

  It’s about time I did more than just praise Nik Peachey on LinkedIn and in Twitter posts! Another six months has passed, the royalties from ‘30 Role Plays for TEFL’ are in. They’ve covered a dentist bill, a crate of… Read More ›

• 64 online resources I’ve used for teaching English this year (plus 7 others)

  By Pete on April 26, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Here’s a list of online resources I’ve either… a) used in the last year b) observed other teachers use c) been told about very recently and am about to try out Why? I feel like doing a tech vomit today.

• MA dissertation promo cringe

  By Pete on April 20, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  Maria Heron from NILE asked me to record a video about my NILE dissertation. They are promoting the course and are keen to get reflections from alumni. She sent me a bunch of questions and asked for a 5 minute… Read More ›

• EAL: Choosing and using sources (History)

  By Pete on April 17, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  My last post was a quick insight into my day-to-day planning for EAL in Primary. Here’s a day-to-day snippet from Secondary. I mainly work in Year 9 learners at my school. I provide in-class support for EAL learners in most… Read More ›

• EAL: Descriptive writing, fronted adverbials

  By Pete on April 16, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Here’s a very brief insight into some day-to-day EAL planning. I work with EAL learners in Year 4. Planning for my EAL lessons is informed by one of the following: National Curriculum SPaG the Unit of Inquiry for that (half)-term… Read More ›

• Using Stories Without End

  By Pete on April 15, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Here’s a quick follow-up to my review of Stories Without End (Taylor Sapp, Alphabet Publishing). As you may have read, I thought this was great resource which could be easily adapted to my own context. Here is an example of… Read More ›

• Why I work for free (sometimes)

  By Pete on April 11, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  I take on materials development work for free sometimes. I appreciate that not everyone has time to do that, can afford to, or might want to. I choose to do it for different reasons. It might be for a good… Read More ›

• Seesaw for EAL and young learners

  By Pete on April 6, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Someone contacted me last week in a panic. ‘Aaargh, we’re going to start using Seesaw – any tips? Is it easy? Can you do a lot on it?’ etc. I find Seesaw really easy to use as a classroom learning… Read More ›

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