School Crafts and ELT?! I’m a Teacher, Not an Artisan!

photo credits: master1305

by Katherine Reilly, originally published in ELT NEWS printed magazine

Have you ever experienced the chaos of school crafting? If you’re reading this, then you probably attest to the anguish, frustration and occasional frivolity of trying to accomplish such a feat within the time restrictions of our lessons.

“Teacher? I can’t cut this! Help me!” or the classic, “Mary’s not sharing the markers with us!” And let’s not forget, “This glue has dried up, and Mark is using the other one to stick the pages of his book together!”

So many more incidents could be mentioned, however, we still have a long way to go till Christmas holiday and discouraging you is the last thing I wish to accomplish.

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TeachingEnglish|British Councl – Breaking Down Barriers: Handout & Certificate

LWA/Dann Tardif

Hello TeachingEnglish community!

Thank you for coming to our event on ‘Breaking down barriers’ in the ELT classroom yesterday. It was a lovely atmosphere and the discussions in the chat were extremely interesting. We hope you enjoyed it!

Don’t miss our panel event on 5 July with Katherine and Amina answering questions on the same topic:

https://www.facebook.com/events/815806946646186

HANDOUT:

You find the handout for this session here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/2024-06/HANDOUT_KatherineReillywebinar.pdf  

CERTIFICATE

You can access the certificate here:  

THANK YOU ALL!!!