Pavilion ELT blogs and vlogs

2020 posed many challenges for us teachers, but also helped us see that the ways we could keep teaching. Now it’s time to look forward and set goals for the year ahead. So, our first vlog of 2021 describes 5 ways you could try to improve your lessons and keep on developing your career.

Having taught for a few years, it might be exciting to consider the freedom of going solo, working on your own and for yourself. This blog looks at how to make the decision, why you might become self-employed, what planning might be needed, and how to ensure your finances work.

Many learners fall into the habit of writing a new word down once and never going back to look at it again. In this vlog post, Damien Herlihy looks at ways to make the vocabulary they learn more memorable whilst providing a framework for learners to decide on what new English words are important for them.

Teachers design materials for their own classrooms and share them with colleagues and friends. For many, this creates the desire to design materials for publication or share their work more widely. This blog post looks at how to get going once you have decided to be an ELT writer.

Whether we are teaching online or having face-to-face lessons, it is important that we think about how to make English classes fun and relevant to students. In this video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares 5 tips to make lessons more student centred and engaging.

Over the last few months, there have been significant changes in how we teach, how viable our organisations are, and how we view ourselves as teachers. This post looks at why everything is not just OK and how to find what makes us resilient by accepting the uncomfortable challenges we are facing.

In this vlog post, Damien Herlihy examines the way we teach grammar from a different perspective and discusses whether we should be using a rules- or reasons-based approach. He follows this up with ideas of some writing tasks learners can do online to consolidate the recommended approach.

In a variety of educational contexts, teachers transition from teacher to administrator or manager. In this blog, Gerhard looks at a model that explains some of the stages teachers go through when they transition from teacher to manager.

As schools re-open, teachers are having to quickly adapt to ‘the new normal’. With classic tools of communicative lessons, like handouts and board games needing to be adapted or avoided, class dynamics become more challenging. This post discusses ways to keep lessons interactive while maintaining a safe distance.

How can you ensure a consistent flow of students into your school? Do you know where they all come from and their profiles? Do your teachers? Why is this important? Gerhard sheds light on the sales funnel and its application to help anyone’s ELT operation become more successful.