Teaching Teenagers English, 9 How to create your class within a class

One way that I think we can progress education in groups away from the default models we ve had for a couple of hundred years is to increase the amount of time and attention we spend with each student. But it s easy to express such a noble sentiment in theory. In practice it can sometimes be quite a logistical challenge to do. In this clip, I look at a simple way that we can take a significant step towards doing this. In this series of nofrills videos for teachers, methodology writer Chris Roland talks about teaching teenagers, with techniques, anecdotes and discussion about the psychological and emotional world of being a teens teacher. Further reading Chris book Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom (2018) is available from Pavilion Publishing Media as part of their Teaching English series. There s a link to that below. A companion volume for teachi