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 no-frills 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