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Soft skills activities: ideas for your language classroom

For those of your students looking to work or study abroad, reaching a proficient level of English is often just part of the equation. The soft skills that enable successful interaction in a professional environment are equally as important. We can play a pivotal role in developing these skills for our students through innovative classroom activities that go beyond traditional language teaching. Here are some engaging ideas for integrating soft skills...
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How To Evaluate Student Success With Assessment

Young Learners
As teachers, how do we know that our students understand the class material? And how do our students know that they understand it?  Everybody Up has a variety of assessment opportunities that can help your students reflect on their progress and lead them to become successful English language learners. In a recent webinar, Erika Osvath described two common types of assessment: Assessment Of Learning, and Assessment For Learning. What...
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Teaching Values To Very Young Learners

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I vividly remember Oscar, a preschool child in my class, jumping up and down excitedly during an activity as he called out, ‘I’m helping!’ Oscar knew that not only had he learnt that helping others was a nice and good thing to do, but he could also put it into practice. For him, it was like learning any other skill, such as writing his name. As Nobel Economics Prize...
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How To Evaluate Student Success With Assessment

As teachers, how do we know that our students understand the class material? And how do our students know that they understand it?  Everybody...
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Teaching Values To Very Young Learners

I vividly remember Oscar, a preschool child in my class, jumping up and down excitedly during an activity as he called out, ‘I’m helping!’...
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Arts and Crafts Classroom Management for Preschool Projects

If you teach Early Years, you probably love doing arts and crafts lessons as much as your learners do, but they can easily go...
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The Power Of Music In Learning: How Songs Make Education Engaging, Fun, And Effective

Do you use songs in your lessons with young learners? Most teachers will say, “Yes!” But have you ever thought about why we use...
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