5-Min Pro · Dealing with Disruptive Learners: Three Strategies
The idea — Most classroom disruption is unmet need: boredom (task too easy), confusion (task too hard), or social need (task not engaging enough). The behaviour…
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5-Min Pro · Assessment for Learning: Quick Tools
The idea — Assessment for learning means using information about what learners know to adjust your teaching in real time. It is not a test at…
Read5-Min Pro · Managing a Mixed-Ability Class
The idea — In a mixed-ability class, the same task reaches different learners differently. Rather than designing three separate tasks, design one task with variable challenge…
Read5-Min Pro · How to Plan a 45-Minute Lesson from Scratch
The idea — A lesson without a plan is a sequence of activities. A plan answers: what will learners be better able to do at the…
Read5-Min Pro · Reflective Teaching Journals: A Practical Start
The idea — Reflective journals become abandoned documents because people start too ambitiously. Three paragraphs per lesson is not sustainable. One question per week is. In…
Read5-Min Pro · Peer Observation: Giving Feedback That Lands
The idea — Peer observation feedback fails when it is vague (‘great energy’), when it is a list of everything, or when it arrives without an…
Read5-Min Pro · How to Write a Lesson Aim Learners Can Actually Understand
The idea — A lesson aim is a promise to learners, not a note to the observer. If learners can’t read it and know what they’ll…
ReadELT365 · Day 181 — Month 6 Review: Receptive Skills Quiz
Quick check — no notes. Answer from memory, then compare with a colleague or the recap below. What is the difference between gist and detail listening…
ReadELT365 · Day 180 — L1 Interference in Listening
Idea — L1 phonological systems can interfere with listening in English. Learners may systematically mishear phoneme contrasts that don’t exist in their first language, no matter…
ReadELT365 · Day 179 — Connected Speech and Listening
Idea — Native speakers link, reduce, and swallow sounds in ways that standard pronunciation syllabi don’t cover. Learners trained only on careful speech are unprepared for…
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