Producing A YouTube Series with Language Learners
I’m an English-As-Second-Language instructor in Vancouver, BC, and for the past two years have been producing a YouTube series with language learners called English Weirdness, which I publish on YouTube. In each episode of this series, I investigate the strange and confusing side of English grammar and syntax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sl86swfq4I
Ι use dramatization, animations that graphically illustrate the language structures at...
How Does Analytical Writing Affect GMAT Score?
Every student who aspires to take a GMAT test and pass it successfully knows the exam's structure inside and out. One of these parts is essay writing. Since recently, the test has consisted of two writing pieces, the Analytical Writing Assessment and Integrated Reasoning. Such a decision by the Graduate Management Admission Council might make some exam takers assume...
Digital Detox For Teachers In 20 Easy Steps
If the thought of leaving your smartphone at home or not checking it whenever you get the chance fills you with horror, maybe it’s time to think about a digital detox. In order to stay healthy in this super-connected world we are living, we need to adopt viable habits in the way we use technology, and digital detox is...
The Use of Online Teaching Tools
Education is evolving and students are learning in new ways, exploring, creating, and interacting with content through modern channels. We started an online survey aiming to map the new digital landscape, the challenges, the goals, and the tools of education professionals around the world. We have gathered all the data and present the results so far in this post....
5 Key Elements to Help You Revise for Your Physics Exams
What's scarier? A crocodile or a physics exam? Physics exams! With your physics exams approaching soon, if you’re a student in Singapore, you must be already searching on Google for ‘popular physics tuition center in Singapore,’ but guess what? Wasting your time on the internet won't be necessary! We have more accessible solutions to help you prep up!
Struggling to...
Online Activities To Amp Your Flipped Classroom
In a flipped classroom students engage with lectures or other materials outside of class to prepare for an active learning experience in the classroom. With online teaching, preparing and delivering online activities and assessment becomes a challenge.
How will my students prepare for the online activities?
Typically students will do either some form of reading assignment or watch a video or...
The Best Tips And Tricks For Teaching With Zoom
With so many teachers now using Zoom as their platform of choice for their online lessons, we thought some tips and tricks would come in handy. According to experts at cheapwritingservice.com, most teachers feel quite frustrated at the beginning as they try to navigate the complex world of online learning and Zoom teaching. So, we gathered the most practical...
Choosing A College: 4 Important Things To Consider
Choosing a college to attend can be a bit of a minefield. There are so many factors to consider, and so many colleges to choose from, you might feel completely overwhelmed and not know which way to turn.
Putting pen to paper could help clear your mind, so make a list of important and relevant factors in choosing a...
Learning Styles: The Truth Behind The Myth
What are Learning Styles?
The term learning styles is widely used to describe how learners gather, sift through, interpret, organize, come to conclusions about, and “store” information for further use. As spelled out in VARK (one of the most popular learning styles theories), these styles are often categorized by sensory approaches: visual, aural, verbal , and kinesthetic.
There are well over 70 different learning styles schemes, most...
5 Proven IELTS Writing Tips
When I get questions from some students, I often receive questions about tips and tricks regarding writing for IELTS. It may seem somewhat disappointing for some of my students, but the best tips for learning HOW to write for IELTS, whether this is Academic or General, is to understand the band scores that the examiner will be comparing your...
