Added by: decabristka | Karma: 67899.11 | Coursebooks, Only for teachers | 21 November 2012
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The three-level course that's in touch with young learners! Four fantastic unit themes in each cycle put students in touch with new friends and experiences.
* Real-life situations* Stories.* Links to the Internet.* Unique In Touch Club magazine for English language learners Thorough and effective language learning.* A structural syllabus with grammar reference in each unit ensures that students get a solid foundation in English.* Songs, chants, projects and games keep students interested all year.* Clear lesson objectives and unit structure make In Touch very easy to teach.* Skills Special units provide a unique step-by-step approach * Regular Revision units
"One World" offers educators a practical curriculum for teaching tolerance and conflict resolution. Fifty hands on activities help students understand how personal values are formed; how misperceptions affect relationships; and how they can communicate effectively. Lessons on decision-making, creative thinking, and conflict management give them the practical skills that foster tolerance. Each lesson plan contains learning objectives, background information, materials needed, activities, activity or resource sheets, discussion questions, and teacher tips.
With so much emphasis these days on making students globally competitive and prepared to beat students of other nations on international assessments, and with so much talk about academic rigor and emphasis on rigid accountability measures, we are in danger of losing sight of the most fundamental element of successful teaching and learning -- love.
If every kid had a laptop computer, what would difference would it make to their learning? And to their prospects? Today, these are questions that all parents, teachers, school administrators, and politicians must ask themselves.
Bob Johnstone provides a definitive answer to the conundrum of computers in the classroom. His conclusion: we owe it to our kids to educate them in the medium of their time.
In this book he tells the extraordinary story of the world's first laptop school. How daring educators at an independent girls' school in Melbourne, Australia, empowered their students by making laptops mandatory.
Debates in ESOL Teaching and Learning: Cultures, Communities and Classrooms
Added by: Anonymous | Karma: | Only for teachers, Linguistics | 21 November 2012
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This unique book provides a lively introduction to the theory and research surrounding the adult learning of English for Speakers of Other Languages. Offering a digest and discussion of current debates, the book examines a wide geographical and social spread of issues, such as: * how to understand the universal characteristics of learning an additional language* what makes a 'good' language learner* multilingualism and assumptions about monolingualism* learning the written language* the effect of recent Government immigration policy on language learning processes.