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Tag Archives: classroom coaching
A lesson in coaching
At its heart coaching is about helping students realise their own power; power to make choices about where, when and how they learn. Where before the challenge for students was finding access to ways of learning, the challenge now is … Continue reading
Posted in Organising learning
Tagged classroom coaching, homework ideas, innovateELT, lesson idea, study outside class
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The SMART Goals Evaluationator
In a talk we gave at IATEFL last week, we unveiled three coaching contraptions to help teachers encourage successful learners, not just successful classes. You can see an interview about the talk we gave here. The tools illustrate aspects of … Continue reading
Giving your Coursebook the Coaching Twist
I’m an ELT materials writer as well as one of the authors of this blog, so I was interested to find some research looking at the compatibility of coursebooks with notions of learner autonomy. In it the authors conclude by … Continue reading
Good Learning Questionnaire
A big thanks to our friend Carmen Plaza this week for this guest post, as well as an accompanying activity which we’ll be adding to the collection. Carmen teaches adults and kids in Cadiz, Andalucia. Like Mark did in his … Continue reading
Posted in Organising learning, Speaking, Uncategorized
Tagged classroom coaching, coaching activities, elementary, pairwork
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Classroom coaching activity – Talking about your notes
I tried the following bit of classroom coaching with my upper intermediate class last week. There are 12-14 of them, we don’t use a course book but all of them have a note book. This is a simple idea for … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom coaching, recycling language, reviewing language
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