From ABCNews, this short video "What Makes Great Teachers" gives us vivid examples of teachers that talk about their tips for being great teachers. Steven Farr, who has spent 10 years visiting classrooms all over the US trying to unravel the mystery of what makes a great teacher, makes his apparition and talks about in this respect.
How to teach English
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Teaching English requires including writing opportunities for students, teaching grammar and usage rules and making sure students have discussion opportunities. Allow English students the opportunity to learn about group conversation with advice from a writing instructor and former classroom teacher in this free video on teaching English.
Interactive lesson plans with whiteboards
Interactive Whiteboard are not only used to present power points. They offer a heap of opportunities for making a class environment interactive and participative. Take a look at how ICT are enriching the new learning scenarios.
Jeremy Harmer talks about filming teachers
Jeremy Harmer, author of How to teach English and the Practice of English Language Teaching, talks about filming teachers in the ELT classroom. By the way, if you want to see a complete review of his two more famous books, please click on the following links:
The 21st Century Learner
To be born in an epoch where mobiles, computers, video games and Web tools such as Youtube or Facebook are available to be consumed and to be part of our lives since childhood can influence the way people interact in full the beginning of the second 21st Century decade. In this video, education experts join to explain how the new trends of ICT could shape the way kids learn and participate in schools and society.
Using Wikis in the classroom
The Wikis are open and flexible tools that allow to set assignments which include multimedia elements such as links to other WebPages, pictures and videos, but, the best thing is that any of their written contents can be edited by any user, thus fostering cooperative writing. Learn how a whole course can be organised around a wiki as shown in this video excerpt from the upcoming DVD on Richardson's book "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms".
Web 2.0 in education
This video explores the possibilities that "web 2.0" technologies and social networking can offer to young people within the school environment.
What makes great teachers great?
According to "Your voice", latest studies have drawn that the quality of a teacher is a dominant factor in how successful children will at school. It's even more important than money, family circumstances or cultural background. In this debate programme, three experts on the educational field have been invited answer: What makes a teacher great? Where does this greatness come from? Is it innate? Or is it learned? How do parents know if the teacher is great or not? Take a look at this video and find the answers out.
Web 2.0 in education
What makes great teachers great?
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