IH DoS Conference 2009

Here are the slides from my presentation -

Teachers TV

Teachers TV continues to grow. For those of you interested in behaviour issues have a look at their behaviour matters page.

NTTI

The National Institute of Teacher Training has lots of useful resources on its website www.thirteen.org

The Concept to Classroom Workshop series is particularly interesting - The topics include

Why the Net? An interactive tool for the classroom

WebQuests

Tapping into Multiple Intelligences

Assessment, Evaluation and Curriculum Redesign

The workshops include mini-videos, quizzes, buzzwords, etc...

Tutor2u

If you are teaching business English you might find Tutor2u a useful resource. The site offers a range of free and subscription-based materials. There are articles, blog entries, videos, quizzes and links on a whole range of business and education-related subjects.

Time Management

One of the most important skills for a teacher to manage is time management - Here are some links to articles you might find useful -

MindTools Time Management

MindTools Beating Procrastination

MindTools Effective Scheduling

Teachers' TV - Time Management

Suite 101.com

Suite101.com offers lots of advice for pre-service teachers.

Here are some of their articles on classroom management and motivation:

Motivating Students

How to motivate students

Classroom Management Tips

There are loads of articles on this useful site.

Correction and Feedback

Have a look at these articles on Heads up English for tips on correcting and giving feedback.

Four ways to handle mistakes

Mistakes, errors and correction

Mind Maps

Tony Buzan created mind maps as the ideal tool for memorising and organising thoughts, to do lists, etc.

Here's Tony explaining the basics of mind-mapping -

David Crystal

For lots of interesting insight into the English language, keep an eye on David Crystal's blog - DCBlog.

Obama

Few can match Obama's skills on the podium - Here's his victory speech -

For David Crystal's analysis of the speech, check out his blog DC blog.

Discipline tips

712educators.about.com has lots of tips about classroom management and discipline.

Top 10 tips for classroom discipline and management

How to handle discipline problems

Top books for discipline

The Dos and Don'ts of Tween Discipline

How to discipline without stress, punishment or rewards

What makes a great teacher?

Have a look at this article from Greatschools.net about what makes a great teacher.

What makes a great teacher?

Learning Difficulties

Greatschools.net offers some useful advice on dealing with children with learning difficulties. There are lots of articles and tips - Greatschools.net

Great Teachers

Here's a link to a video on teachers' TV. Watch Philip Beadle - 2004 Secondary Teacher of the Year - in action.

Teachers' TV

Baruch College

Baruch College offers access to video of some of its Master Teachers series via iTunes (search in iTunesU). Teachers and presenters run workshops offering tips and advice about teaching and learning.

Baruch College

TED stands for technology, entertainment, design. It started as a conference in 1984 that brought people together from these three worlds. The TED conference invites the world's best speakers to give presentations that represent some of the World's most exciting ideas. The only catch is that speakers are limited to 18 minutes for a talk!

The TED website, www.ted.com, gives you free access to over 200 of these talks (you can also subscribe through iTunes).

It may not be about Teaching English but there is plenty to inspire on this great site.

Discipline and YLs

Kaboose is a website aimed at parents but contains some useful info and tips on child development and behaviour.

Have a look at the following articles -

Kids without a conscience

Understand your child's temperament

Stress and teens

Peer Pressure and Grade Schoolers

Teaching Speaking

There is a great new online video series available from the British Council giving you tips on how to teach speaking to children. Here's a link to the first video in the series:

Introduction

There are other videos on rapport, feedback, activities, pronunciation, etc.

Log in and Learn

Here are the slides for my presentation at IH Milan's "From Good Practice to Better Practice" conference, 26 September 2008.

Behaviour website

Louise, YL co-ordinator here at IH Milan, has asked me to blog the following site on behaviour.

The site is Behaviour Needs

The site has some interesting articles about classroom management with provocative titles such as "If pupils misbehave, it's the teacher's fault!"

There are also inspirational posters and lots of useful tips.

Aisli Presentation

Here are the slides for my Using the Web for Teacher Development presentation (Aisli, Rome, 08 Sept 2008).

Aisli Presentation

Here's part two of my Learning by Moving Presentation at the Aisli Conference - 8 September 2008.

Aisli Presentation

Here are the slides for the first part of my Learning by Moving presentation at the Aisli DoS Conference, Monday 8 October 2008, Rome.

Podwatch1

There are lots of interesting podcasts you can download using iTunes. Here's a brief update on some of the most interesting ones:

EFL

BBC World Service – 6 Minute English Podcast

30 July Stress and work
20 Aug What does credit crunch mean?

BBC Talk about English

21 Aug – discuss cloning
31 Jul – human rights
24 Jul – big brands

BBC Grammar Challenge

22 Aug Present continuous
01 Aug – Present perfect
25 July – Time prepositions

BBC World Service Real English

22 Aug – looks at phrase ‘What an airhead’
1 Aug – ‘bark worse than his bite’

ESL Aloud

20 Aug – 2008 Olympics

Splendid Speaking –

23 Aug – structuring a short talk
16 Aug – responding to questions
2 Aug – Using anecdotes

Podcastsinenglish

21 Aug – cocktail party at the Italian embassy
14 Aug – rats – pests or pets
7 Aug - 2008 Olympics

ESL Pod

04 Aug – Dealing in the black Market
01 Aug – Watching the Olympic Games

METHODOLOGY

ESL Teacher Talk

26 Aug – Total Physical Response methodology

GENERAL

National Geographic - Video Shorts Podcast

Recent – 5 min videos of exploration in S. America

Discovery Channel Video Podcast

Short videos

English heritage

22 Aug – series on Hadrian’s wall (6 ten minute videos) started

Screenrush Movietrailers

Trailers for new and classic films

BUSINESS

London Business Schools Podcasts

26 Aug – 10 minute look at marketing fundamentals
08 Aug – A brief look at decision making

Learn Business English – Podcast

24 Aug – presentations – analysing trends
17 Aug – presentations – describing trends
10 Aug – business vocab – The office manager
3 Aug – Job interviews – HR review of candidates

Harvard Business Video IdeaCast

11 Aug – social intelligence and leadership
25 Aug – What is personal Leadership brand?

Dealing with difficult behaviour

Here are some more videos from Teachers' Tv about challenging behaviour:

Changing challenging behaviour

This looks at the National Programme for Specialist Leaders of Behaviour and Attendance in the UK.
Policing Challenging Behaviour

We follow a teacher as she is trained by the police in how to deal with challenging behaviour!

Mind Tools

The mind tools website is a nice resource for articles regarding leadership, time management, problem solving, decision making, memory tips, using creativity, stress management, information skills, etc.

Some example articles:

How good are your motivation skills?
Weighing the pros and cons of a decision.
DO IT - A simple creativity process
The Golden Rules of Goal Setting
Mind Maps
Active Listening
Using Mind Maps as a memory tool

More Time Management

Feeling the pressure of a busy timetable? See if you can squeeze a few spare moments out of your hectic day to check out some of these resources regarding time management.

Teacher's TV has several videos about time management and teaching:

Video 1 - (Aimed at new teachers)
Video 2 - (Aimed at Admin staff)
Video 3
Video 4 - (Aimed at trainee teachers)
Video 5 - (John Bayley advises a teacher)

You can download some articles about time management in PDF format from Mind Tools

History of English

The British Library website has some interesting stuff on the way English has changed.

British Library

The site includes a timeline of the English language.

Tefl News

Keep updated with TEFL news via The Guardian's TEFL page.

Discourse Analysis

If you're interested in discourse analysis, have a look at this article.

Teaching with Bayley: Discipline

Behaviour management guru, John Bayley, visits school and helps teachers improve their classroom management techniques. There are lots of videos featuring John Bayley on Teachers' TV.

Some of the highlights:



MOTIVATION

Making pupils feel special and important - Video
Different learning styles - Video
Being more dynamic - Video
Giving praise - Video

GREAT TEACHERS

Motivating science teacher - Video
The Children's Champion - Video
Outstanding New Teacher - Video

STRUCTURING LESSONS

Time management - Video
Lesson structure - Video

DISCIPLINE

Dealing with disruptive pupils - Video
Dealing with short attention spans - Video
Controlling difficult pupils - Video
Dealing with unresponsive pupils - Video
Being assertive - Video Video 2
Dealing with attention seekers - Video

Best Practice

There is a series of videos on Teachers' TV that follows a team of experts attempting to turn good teachers into outstanding teachers. Have a look at the first episode by clicking on the link below -

From Good to Outstanding

SEAL

What's seal? SEAL is an approach that examines the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning.

The five touchstones of SEAL are -

Self-awareness
Empathy
Managing feelings
Motivations
Social Skills

For an in-depth look at SEAL in UK secondary schools look at the SEAL website. You can download a huge amount of material from this site - PDF guides, slides, videos, training guides, etc., etc. Information for primary level is also available on the SEAL website.

Have a look at this video from the William Howard school to see SEAL in action:

Teachers' TV:Seal

Connected Speech

Slides from the connected speech training session (Mike Riley)

Pronunciation - Underhill video part 1

Here is the first part of a presentation by Adrian Underhill on teaching pronunciation. This comes from the MacmillanELT YouTube page.

Pronunciation - Underhill video part 2

Part 2 of Adrian Underhill's presentation.

Pronunciation - Underhill part 3

More from Adrian Underhill (Macmillan YouTube page)

Pronunciation - Underhill video part 4

Here's Adrian Underhill talking about pronunciation.

Business Result Training DVD (OUP)

The OUP 'Result' teachers' books come with some teacher training DVDs (plus worksheets). These could be used by new teachers or during training sessions.

The videos are closely linked to the Result series and contain clips from lessons using the books. Managed well, the DVDs could be used to create further discussion and may be an interesting addition to training sessions. For example, the English Result Pre-Intermediate DVD shows clips from a whole unit and highlights different stages of a lesson, such as giving instructions, concept checking, explaining grammar, setting up activities, etc.

Business Result - Upper-intermediate - DVD

• Presentations
• One-to-One teaching
• Using case studies

Business Result - Intermediate - DVD

• Needs Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Telephoning

Business Result - Online worksheets

English Result - Pre-Intermediate - DVD

• Author's introduction
• Classroom footage - Unit 4B - warmer, concept check, listening strategies, setting up a game, a game, Can do
• Teacher feedback regarding English Result format
  

English Result - Online worksheets

CAE Result - DVD

• Overview and examples of CAE Paper 5 Speaking
• Assessment criteria
• Tips on giving a good performance
• A complete test
• Complete test assessment
  

Time Managment

Watch Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management via iTunesU or via his website:

Randy Pausch

iTunes University

iTunesU, Apple's on-line University, is a wonderful resource. An increasing number of universities allow their lectures to be downloaded for free via iTunes. Here are a few selected lecture series about education. You will need iTunes to access them:

Swinburne University of Technology: Learning and Teaching

UMBC: Teaching and Learning

Vanderbilt University: Center for Teaching

UMBC: Child Development Psychology

Discipline

Here are three articles on dealing with discord by Rose Senior from the ETP magazine.

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Russell Stannard Website

This is one of the most useful websites I have found. You can watch a series of videos in which Russell teaches you how to make the most out of technology (downloading podcasts, creating blogs, using wikis, etc.) He also has some videos about his favourite ELT sites.

Have a look - Teacher Training Videos by Russell Stannard

Teaching Teens

Trouble with teens?

Have a look at these articles on the BBC'S Teaching English website:

Project work with Teens

Teen angst

Motivating Teens

The Lexical Approach

Do you want to learn more about The Lexical Approach? Why not have a look at these two articles on the BBC's Teaching English website?

Part One

Part Two

Teaching Children

The following articles from the BBC Teaching English website look at children as learners.

Part One

Part Two

There are other articles dealing with

• children who have additional education needs

• managing young learners

• Storytelling
  

The Internet

You can listen to two podcasts on using the Internet in the classroom on the BBC Teaching English Website.

Using Dictionaries

The BBC Teaching English website has a podcast about using dictionaries. Click on the link below and choose 'Reference Revolution' from the menu.

BBC Teaching English

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

The BBC Teaching English website contains some podcasts explaining the basics of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).

BBC Teaching English

There is also an article offering a framework for using CLIL in the classroom.