Dave Spencer and the experts from NILE - Anna Hasper, Claudia Rey and Mike Riley – discuss the importance of continuous teacher professional development. They share their practical tips for developing teacher competencies inspired by their own professional experiences and observations of continuously changing role of an English teacher.
In the Teach with Dave Masterclass we provide you with a set of materials created by Dave Spencer and Anna Hasper. These materials are designed to help you to make the most of the programme and to try and test the ideas from the webinars with your students. Click on the links below to watch, listen to and download the pre- and post-session content.
Dave Spencer is sharing some of his ideas about how teachers can best manage and motivate teenagers, considering key issues such as mixed abilities, discipline, online learning and effective lesson planning, suggesting both general approaches and concrete classroom activities. He also examines what teenagers themselves think makes a great teacher.
Exams and tests are part of everyday life for teenage students, whether they be regular evaluation exams, external exams to gain a qualification in English, or university entrance exams. This session will investigate both the positive and negative impact that exams can have on our students and then go on to explore ways to help them to pass their exams with flying colours whilst remaining positive and motivated, and avoiding exam ‘tunnel vision’.
In this session we will look at how to prepare teenage students for life in the 21st Century. We will look at how and why we should teach Life Skills, Thinking Skills, and Social and Emotional Learning. The ultimate aim of teaching these various skills is to help teenagers to cope with the pressures of life at school and university and also to succeed and blossom in life beyond the classroom.