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In October, 2014, I did a short presentation for Teachers' Day in Angeles, Pampanga, the Philippines on ideas for engaging students. Although I am an English teacher, I tried to present ideas that work across the curriculum, based on what we know from both neuroscience and from positive psychology.
This webpage has support handouts. They deal specifically with ways to add the ideas to EFL/ESL classes, but many of the specific strategies and activities can be adapted to other disciplines. I hope you find the downloads useful.
This webpage has support handouts. They deal specifically with ways to add the ideas to EFL/ESL classes, but many of the specific strategies and activities can be adapted to other disciplines. I hope you find the downloads useful.
Go for emotion. This handout is from my Do-It-Yourself NeuroELT page. Particularly note the ideas under "Go for emotion", "Personalise", "Let learners create" and "Challenge." Download handout. On another page of this websites, there are more resources (handouts, video, etc.) on using brain science in ELT. Click here.
Challenge Learners. If we aren't challenged, we get bored. Too much challenge and we give up. One of all teachers' most challenging tasks is to get the balance right. This hand out suggests ways languages activities can be modified to be easier (more fluency-oriented) or more challenging (more accuracy-oriented). Download handout.
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Move. We were not designed to sit still all day. Humans need to move. Here is a handout of 5-minutes activities that involve movement. Download handout. There another page on this website with more movement ideas. Click here.
Teach across the senses. When learners get "multi-modality instruction", they learn and remember more. Here's a handout that suggests ways to modify activities to include those senses the textbook ignores. Download handout. There's another page on this website with more resources for multi-modality teaching. Click here.
Happy students learn more, work longer at tasks and approach those tasks with more enthusiasm. Here is a handout with about 20 ideas for adding knowledge from Positive psychology to the ELT classroom. Download handout. I have a separate website with more than 50 handouts and other downloads related to to English Language Teaching and the Science of Happiness. Click here.