CamTESOL 2016

Weekend past, Phnom Penh played host to the 12th annual CamTESOL Conference: Promoting autonomy in language teaching and learning. A hot theme for a sultry city, the conference boasted a huge number of speakers, workshops and papers along with around 1500 attendees. Cambodian teachers from county-wide were present, as were professionals living and working in countries all over Asia, as …

Effective Classroom Management Idea for YLs and Teens

After experimenting with all kinds of bribery, this 1-hour procedure sets up a CM system that: is motivating forces young learners to think about their own and their teacher's behaviour expectations is based around an cummulative goal that the students decide upon involves and implicates all students in the overall goal appeals to gamers can …

First Lesson Ideas: a continuing class of YLs with all / mostly the same students

It can be hard to have a good first lesson of a new course because: You don't put the effort into it because of some mental note that this lesson is not that important as "it's only the first lesson" But you don't want to use the coursebook so there is even more reliance on …

Tutorials reports 1

Tutorials : Low-Intermediate Adults Having reached the half-way point in the course, we had one-to-one , teacher – student tutorials this evening. In the previous lesson I had given students a list of questions to respond to and bring with them to the tutorial. The questions focussed around the class, the teacher, the activities, vocabulary …

Sustained Silent Reading with Young Learners: an experiment

I'm in the middle of the iTDi Advanced course: THE path to Academic English with Stephen Krashen (http://itdi.pro/stephenkrashen.php) What does this have to do with doing self-selected reading in class with my class of 8-10 year olds? You need to have read some of Krashen's papers or be familiar with his ideas to understand. This …

Process Writing with High Level 8-10 Year Olds

I have been teaching this class for a year or so. They are now in J7 (technically B2 but there is plenty of discrepency in level. And I am not sure if the CEFR applies that accurately to 9 year olds. I decided on a mainly project approach to teaching this class, with the use …