Free eBook — ChatGPT for Language Teachers — Just a quick newsletter this week, to announce my new book: ChatGPT for Language Teachers: The Ultimate Prompt Handbook for AI Productivity. As someone who has been using ChatGPT since November last year, I’ve seen firsthand the incredible potential this technology holds for language teaching and learning. Since then, I’ve…

Storytelling for Language Teachers: Story frameworks, techniques and activities — Hi all, Just a short email this week, as I’m excited to release my new book! It’s called ‘Storytelling for Language Teachers: Story frameworks, techniques and activities’, 🐉 Here’s what you can expect: A quick story-planning method to design story-based lessons in minutes. Twenty adaptable story activities for almost any…

Supercharge your students’ learning outside the classroom. — Originally published at BarefootTEFLTeacher— subscribe there to read it first! How long do you spend with your language students each week? Two hours or less is standard for a lot of language schools. If your students study English in their regular school for another two hours, that makes four hours…

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…