Team GB medals and other misinformation Last week, as the Olympic games in Tokyo closed, my husband remarked that the ‘2020’ Team GB had equalled the performance of the 2012 team, who had had the home advantage.‘Oooh! good for Team GB!’ was NOT my response. read more… AD(H)D: mis-named and misunderstood Do you know people […]
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June 2021
Why I’m a joiner I loved woodwork when I was at school. Here’s a picture of a wooden cat I made when I was 12 (yes, I’ve kept it all these years). But it’s not that kind of joinery I want to talk about here. Read more A dyslexic teacher – are you joking? Have […]
May 2021 neurodiversity
Learning by doing This is me, on my first Speech and Language Therapy placement. I’m ‘assisting’ with a swallowing assessment in the radiography department (they let me mix the different barium liquids and pastes!). The course has been quite intense and almost entirely theoretical so far, but this week we get a chance to see […]
March 2021 – working with mature learners
Courses and resources Want to know about courses happening soon, and resources you could use in your classroom? Read the full text and get links here. A different angle One of the most interesting things about returning to study is the opportunity to see familiar things from a different point of view, and understanding them […]
February 2021
Assessing multilingual people IS different. There are many variables we need to take into account when deciding if one of our multilingual learners has dyslexia, or another SpLD. In this video, I discuss some of the differences between our monolingual and our multilingual learners. Watch the video here. Join the ELT well community and download […]
January 2021
SpLD myth #2: Autistic people don’t want to make friends. In the ELT classroom, pair and group work – in frequently changing combinations – is the norm. It’s a great way for all the members of a class to get to know each other. Right? Read more. Stepping into the shrubbery One of the silver […]
December 2020
Using musical activities to support language development There are many similarities between music and language, in the way they are organised, processed, and produced. Music therefore has enormous potential as a language learning tool, which can be appealing to even the least engaged or confident learners. Read more (this post first appeared in the Across […]