Teaching Methodology and Best Practices
Stay up to date on the latest teaching strategies and trends to keep your lessons fresh, engaging, and effective. Explore innovative methods and pedagogical practices in teaching grammar, tackling pronunciation, correcting errors, materials development, curriculum design and other core topics. ELT methodology is constantly evolving – make sure your teaching practices are too!
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Learning paths: Industry Insights (ELT News) and Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Using Corpora to Correct Errors in the ESL Classroom
People often intuit what is correct in their first language simply by whether or not it sounds natural, but how can you develop this same intuition in a second language? How can students know if a phrase is formal or informal? How can they choose the right synonym? One shortcut teachers and students can utilize are corpora – large bodies of text – to analyze language and find patterns in order to correct vocabulary and grammatical errors. Join us for a discussion and demonstration of using corpora from English-Corpora.org to correct your students’ errors and help their language sound more natural.
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Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Tips for Finding Engaging Materials from Ellii (formerly ESL Library) and Beyond!
Are you looking to engage intermediate or advanced learners in meaningful conversation? Whether you use authentic materials as inspiration or find ready-made materials and add your own twist, there’s a whole world of exciting topics out there for you to discuss. Our expert panelists are excited to share their sources of inspiration and concrete methods for developing and expanding lesson plans, as well as techniques for facilitating conversation. Join Bridge and Ellii (formerly ESL Library) as we focus on helping English teachers discover materials to generate interesting conversations with intermediate and advanced level learners. For great conversation resources you can use with your students, explore Ellii’s Discussion Starters, Mini-Debates, or a Detective Series. https://esllibrary.com/courses/72/lessons https://esllibrary.com/courses/73/lessons https://esllibrary.com/courses/79/lessons
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Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Think Outside the Book: Developing Dynamic Materials for Your ESL Classes
Do you often feel bored or constrained by the limits of the textbook? Do your students? Would you like to better engage your learners with richer, more diverse material that’s specifically relevant to their interests or matched to their particular learning styles?
Join Bridge’s expert panel to learn about the process of developing unique materials (including authentic, digital, and multi-media) that will excite your students. Panelists will discuss how to find or develop materials and how to creatively integrate them with textbook content to create tailored, targeted lessons that still align with your school’s curriculum.
To prepare for this webinar check out this related Bridge blog post: Top Tips for Creating Materials for the EFL Classroom.
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Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
The Power of Teaching Pronunciation in ESL
A key contributor to Bridge’s new Micro-credential course on teaching pronunciation discusses the need for specialized training in this area, how pronunciation skills affect the speech habits of learners, and how to address student issues.
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Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Teaching English Pronunciation: Understanding and Utilizing the IPA Chart
Pronunciation materials and lessons often show IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols but what do they mean? And, how can you use them to improve your pronunciation instruction? Join our expert panel for an intro and overview of the International Phonetic Alphabet as well as practical applications to your English language classroom and teaching. We will be reviewing the sounds of both North American and British English.
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Learning paths: Jobs, Career Advice, and Professional Development, Teaching Methodology and Best Practices, and Testing and Assessments.
Tackling Student Anxiety: Test-Taking Strategies to Help Students Succeed on High-Stakes English Exams
You’ve held grammar drills, incorporated speaking activities, and given practice essays, but are your students really prepared for the big test day? High-stakes English language proficiency exams can often leave test takers feeling anxious, which can lead to more mistakes or freezing altogether during the exam. What leads to test anxiety, and how can you train your students to overcome this hurdle? Join Bridge and a panel of representatives from three leaders in the English testing industry – Pearson, IELTS, and PrepMyFuture – to learn about the best resources and strategies teachers can use to help students conquer anxiety and succeed on the test!
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Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Optimize Your ESL/EFL Lesson Plans to Improve Efficacy and Save Time
Do you find yourself spending too much time on lesson planning? Do you feel that your lesson plans are not working when put to the test in the actual classroom? Don’t let lesson planning make you sweat!
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Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Oops, They Did It Again! Error Detection and Correction Strategies for the ESL Classroom
What happens when language students make errors in the classroom? As a teacher, can you recognize the nature of that “error,” and do you know when it’s appropriate for students to self-correct or peer-correct versus when they need your help? The teacher’s ability to determine whether a student has made a mistake, a slip, or an error directly affects how to correct it. Properly executing these techniques can ensure that students avoid anxiety in speaking and feel comfortable putting their language skills to practice!Join Bridge’s expert panel to learn more about the different types of errors in learning English and strategies on how to correct them. -
Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Making Grammar Interesting, Interactive and Inclusive
Grammar lessons have a reputation for being dry or boring…but they don’t have to be! You can make learning English grammar exciting by including interactive activities featuring topics that are relevant to your students. Join us to learn how you can make grammar lessons more engaging, and see our expert panelists demonstrate specific activities that you can implement in your classroom.
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Learning paths: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) & Bilingual Education and Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Guiding Your Students From LOTS to HOTS: Bloom’s Taxonomy in the ESL Classroom
As you’re developing lesson plans, how can your learning objectives and desired outcomes for students be mapped to create “scaffolded” lessons that challenge them to move from lower- to higher-order skills? And how can you check that students are achieving the objectives you’ve set forth? Join Bridge’s expert panelists for answers to these questions and more about Bloom’s Taxonomy in the ESL classroom.
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Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices and Young Learners & Teenagers.
Free and Low-Cost Games for Intermediate English Language Learners
Everyone loves to make learning English fun, but can you play games and still teach your lesson with older, more advanced students? Whether online or in-person, learn to make it fun and conversational!
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Learning paths: Teaching English Online and Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Focusing on Your Students: Effectively Using Ready-Made ESL Lesson Plans
Whether you teach online or in person, time spent preparing lessons could be time spent in a better place – with your students. The need for quality ESL/EFL lesson plans has inspired growth in the ready-made lesson plan industry. Today’s lesson plans come in multimedia formats, covering all skill levels and a range of topics. How can purchasing ready-made lesson plans save both independent teachers and school-based teachers’ time, creating space for potential income growth? What options are available for lesson plan formats and delivery methods? Are there customizability options? Join Bridge and a panel of representatives from some of today’s leading lesson plan providers for a discussion about the benefits of ready-made lesson plans, where to find high-quality lesson resources and much more.
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Learning paths: Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Creating Custom Courses: Leveraging your Teaching Experience into Instructional and Curricular Design
You’ve honed your English language teaching skills and know your participles, phrasal verbs and clause structures, so what’s next? Why not leverage your experience into creating custom courses! This is an excellent way to meet the needs of niche English language learning audiences. Plus, once you become proficient, there are opportunities to offer your course design services to companies as a side gig. Join our expert panel to learn about instructional design, curriculum design and the differences between them, and how you can develop and employ your course design skills.
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Learning paths: Jobs, Career Advice, and Professional Development and Teaching Methodology and Best Practices.
Breaking Down TESOL’s Top Methodologies: Busting the Myth that One Fits All
Teaching methodologies have evolved over time, with some touted as “the best” and others falling by the wayside. But is there a teaching method or practice that is better than the rest? Our expert panel will dive into some of the most popular teaching methodologies – new and old – and explore their applications to the online and in-person classroom. Tune in to learn which methodologies may be most effective within certain contexts or with specific learners and find out how to integrate multiple methods to improve learner outcomes and inspire a lifelong learner mentality in your students.