1. Inclusive Classrooms is a free TeachingEnglish course that promises to “make your classes inclusive learning spaces by identifying barriers that can affect learning and (suggesting) practical strategies to overcome them”. Totally free; enrol before 21st September!
More info and registration here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training/teachingenglish-inclusive-classrooms
2. This one’s from The PIE, An ELT phenomenon – who is Dong Yuhui? https://thepienews.com/an-elt-phenomenon-who-is-dong-yuhui/
Talk about clouds having silver linings and necessity being the mother of invention!
3. Who else feels guilty about not finishing a book they’ve started? Here’s Calum Bains on the topic in The Guardian, I couldn’t put a boring book down. Now I take pleasure in saying enough is enough https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/15/why-i-quit-having-to-finish-reading-books-games
Thanks to Maja Mandekic for that one!
4. I’ve just discovered the EF Teach Online Library https://www.youtube.com/@efteachonline thanks to a LinkedIn post from Ian McMaster – who many years ago commissioned an article on ‘English Cheese’ from me for the magazine he was then editing, Anglo-American Spotlight – about a talk he gave for the 3rd EF Online English Teacher Conference this summer.
Ian’s talk, ‘Language, communication, behaviour and culture: What are we trying to affect?’ is in the ‘Videos’ section https://youtu.be/O-ou92daxZA?feature=shared
5. And, finally, a Spanish proverb that I stumbled across the other day which I hope someone from Spain can vouch for: “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.“
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