By now you’ve heard that teaching ESL online is a great job opportunity for digital nomads. “Teach from anywhere! All you need is a stable…
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English is a fascinating language with unique and beautiful origins, often using common words from diverse languages to create more distinctive definitions. Calvert Watkins, author…
What is Social Emotional Learning (SEL)? If you have ever spent a great deal of time in the college classroom, then you are surely aware…
Fluidity + Accuracy = Fluency When tutors assess ELL students (English Language Learners)*, we often say he or she is “fluent in a language.” We…
New Concept English is an English language curriculum created by Louis George Alexander, and first published in 1967. This English language curriculum revolutionized the way…
It’s the beginning of a new course, and you’re very excited to meet your new students…until you see their names. Wanghaoxuan? Zhuhaoxi? You don’t know…
It doesn’t take long in a classroom to realize that not all students learn in the same manner. Some pupils need to hear things repeated,…
The Value of the Laugh and Learn Method “Laugh and the world laughs with you” or in the case of the ESL tutor, the online…
Recently, I had the opportunity to chat virtually with Tara M., one of 10 online ESL teachers to receive the 2018 Teachers of the Year…
We have all been there– sitting in class or a meeting, and after 20 minutes our knees begin to feel stiff, our lower backs start…