Teaching Teenagers English #1 Don't wish your lessons away.

Описание: In this series of no-frills videos for teachers, methodology writer Chris Roland talks about teaching teenagers, providing tips, techniques, anecdotes and discussion about the psychological and emotional world of being a teens teacher.

In this clip I talk about not wishing our lessons away, but trying to find a place in them for us to enjoy our teaching too.

The challenge
In each clip, I will also leave you with a task, challenge or point to reflect on. This time, I have asked you to think about the next class you are going to teach and to write down 1, 2 or 3 things that you think you might enjoy about that class. I have found this a very useful technique and it has even helped me out of some bleak times when I felt my teaching was hitting a slump. You may wish to extend the technique to all of your classes on a given day or a week.

Please let me know in the comments section if...
a) You like the idea of having a section on lesson plan pro-formas or templates where teachers write what it is they think they will enjoy about the (observed or not) lesson they are about to teach (as discussed in the video when I talk about my 'salmorejo epiphany').

b) If you try the main challenge and find it helps you focus on the good things going on in your class or classes.

Further reading
Chris' book Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom (2018) is available from Pavilion Publishing & Media as part of their Teaching English series. There's a link to that below.

A companion volume for teaching groups of teens online is also available through Pavilion called Understanding Teenage Language Learners Online (2021).

https://www.pavpub.com/pavilion-elt/t...

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