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Bank of online observable lessons

by Carmen

Hi, thanks Daniel Barber for fb sharing Sandy Millin´s bank of observable lessons from her blog designed to help time-short teachers observe and learn from other teachers’ lessons.

Sandy has divided the videos into loose categories, with a sentence or two to help us decide which are the most relevant to us. Within the categories, they’re just in the order she´s found them! If you find any broken links she´s happy to hear from you to fix them.

Feel free to comment on any real gems or any particular focus that interests you.

Miscellaneous Professional Development Skills

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Carmen´s Growth Mindset Talk at ACEIA 2017

by Carmen

Here is a link to my presentation at ACEIA 2017 : an introduction to growth mindsets. Although it might not make much sense on its own there are live links to videos that explain the basics and how they affect our student´s learning. Any questions, just ask!

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Miscellaneous

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Tefl del Sur Saturday 28th October!

by Carmen

Here´s Steve O´s very stylish poster for the upcoming Tefl del Sur event.

Fabulous sessions, good fun: a great local Conference.

Only a week to go until Tefl del Sur! Here is some information about our sessions next Saturday:

Chris Johnson from St James Language Center in Seville will be talking about Creating and Exploiting Learning Opportunities in a workshop that is relevant to teachers to students of all ages.

Kasia Kepka will be doing a session called “Now, this is interesting! – giving teenagers a reason to read” which looks at ways of engaging teenagers – always a tricky task!

For more details about these talks, visit the event page.

Finally, our third session will be a bit of a surprise… to find out more, come along!

We hope to see all our old members and lots of new faces

Miscellaneous

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Footprints Language Overview PDFs -useful!

by Carmen

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These scope and language summaries are available on the Macmillan Young Learner website for printing out. I might experiment this year with keeping language/vocab objectives up on a wall and in plain sight this year!

Footprints

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Macmillanelt.es

by Carmen

Here you´ll find a wealth of downloadable resources such as flashcards/wordcards/Audio Cds/Teachers book for each of the Footprints levels. To download the files you need to be a Macmillan Advantage User so don´t forget to register on the website first.

Footprints

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First Day Icebreakers

by Teresa Bestwick

Amy posted a link to this fabulous free ebook by Graham Knox on the facebook page – it’s got 40 great ideas for icebreakers…just what we need to start the term!

First Day Activities

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Back to School

by Teresa Bestwick

Well, we’ve done Day 1 and all survived…hooray! I hope everyone’s first day was a success – if you’re looking for more ideas for First Day Activities (either for classes today or those which will be starting in October), check out this fabulous list by Lizzie Pinard which Ceri posted on the facebook page.

First Day Activities

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First lessons

by Teresa Bestwick

It’s amazing what you can find when you rifle through old documents on your computer! I found some notes on a First Lessons session from many moons ago and also a checklist to help you think about what’s important in those first classes.

First Day Activities

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