5 Tips for Building Positive Relationships with Your Learners
To have a successful year with your class, you want to create a solid foundation from the very first day. That foundation paves the way…
Category: Teacher Tips
Offline Interactive Learning Platform Launches in South Africa
Education in South Africa is moving in a digital direction at an extremely fast pace. With the improvements of internet connectivity, lowering of data costs…
Using Games to Teach an Additional Language
If you want your learners to be engaged in a language lesson, get them active in a game. Games are not just to relieve boredom…
Direct Instruction Done Well: Does it Work?
Direct instruction, a teaching method centered upon teacher-directed explicit instruction, often gets a bad rap because it is misunderstood. Â However, when it is done well,…
Gaming and Maths: A Teacher’s Perspective
It is no secret that maths is a daunting subject for many students and causes them anxiety. Only teachers know just how difficult a task…
Move over Millennials: Gen Z has taken over the classroom
By Nicolas Matthee Defining the birth and decline of a generation of people is not a precise science by any means. An academic article by…
How to Improve Classroom Discipline! 5 Tips for Better Discipline!
Maintaining discipline in your classroom is probably the most important and in the same breath the most difficult classroom management skill. In this episode…
What are 21st Century Skills, and How Can I Start Teaching Them?
What are 21st Century Skills, and How Can I Start Teaching Them? The 21st century world is like none we have ever seen. Driven by…
Christopher Emdin: Teach teachers how to create magic
What do rap shows, barbershop banter and Sunday services have in common? As Christopher Emdin says, they all hold the secret magic to enthrall and…
Differentiation: Practical Tips to Start Doing it Today
Your classroom has learners of differing abilities and understanding levels. Differentiation can help you meet the learning needs of each individual learner. While learning how…