Community enhances school academic and business outcomes. — Is your school a community? Or is it just a place where students come, attend class, and leave? Despite what most school managers think, a community is more than a few seasonal events and some half-hearted parent communication. …

Meet your new AI teaching assistant — ChatGPT. — AI can now write lesson plans. Oh, and they can also suggest activities, create teaching materials, give feedback to students, and much more. All for free. Let’s take a look. AI Writing and ChatGPT AI writing has been a trend in the last year or so, and has helped marketers and copywriters write product…

And how to get started today. Have you considered generating and using AI art in your lessons? Using simple text prompts, AI can create beautiful, interesting images to use with your students. You can even ‘feed’ your students’ art to the AI, and it will enhance and customise their images! …

How one tool can make you more efficient and less stressed. — How do you write your to-do list? Teachers have so many tasks to juggle, my to-do list used to be on post-it notes stuck all over my desk, on my monitor, and crumpled in my pockets. It’s hard to explain to non-teachers just how many things we have to do…

Improve their fluency, understanding, and enable faster learning. — It’s not unusual for students to get frustrated multiple times when learning vocabulary. The first is when they’re told to memorise long lists of single words. Second is when they realise just how many words there are to memorise and how long it will take. The third is when they…

Your students’ first language is a valuable teaching tool. — This article was first published as a barefootTEFLteacher newsletter — head over to subscribe and be updated first. On my initial TEFL training course in 2003, we weren’t allowed to use L1 (the students’ first language) in the classroom. If you did, the tutors would lower your mark for that…

One tactic to introduce language, correct errors and build rapport. — This article was first published on barefootTEFLteacher.com — head over to subscribe and get updated first. Emergent language is a fantastic opportunity to improve your students’ learning. Using language that ‘comes up’ during activities can improve student accuracy, introduce new language and build rapport. …

Build resilience, empathy and meaning. — This article was first published on barefootTEFLteacher.com — head over to subscribe and get updated first. Every student that chooses to learn a language is on their own hero’s journey. The hero’s journey is a story outline of someone going on an adventure, encountering troubles and returning successfully. …

Are you using the powerful ‘Pygmalion effect’ in your classroom? — This article was first published on barefootTEFLteacher. Head over to subscribe and get updated first. You can improve your students’ results by thinking differently. Sounds like magic? It seems like it, but the concept is simple. …