Pavilion ELT blogs and vlogs

In his third video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares his tips to help you feel better prepared for online teaching and more confident to choose apps for online English lessons.

With conferences being cancelled, schools stopping classes, and some industries struggling under the burdens of safety measures to stop the spread of Coronavirus, crisis management (CM) and having a principled and developmental CM plan becomes vital.

In this episode, Damien Herlihy looks at online reading and the type of online tools students can use to assist their reading at home. He also introduces the idea of ‘deliberate practice’ and how it might help our students become better readers.

When customers purchase a course, their exposure to your organisation isn’t limited to their classroom experience. Everything from your marketing to the course’s follow up influences the customer’s experience so understanding these journeys is vital.

In his second video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares 6 strategies he uses to keep high engagement levels in the classroom and prepare students for the world outside.

Following up on his first blog on why teachers might not want to manage, Gerhard Erasmus aims to help future and current managers develop their own road map to help them develop the skills and expertise needed to transition effectively into management. The post looks at skills that teachers have developed that can transfer into management, qualifications that can support the development of management skills, and how to utilise your current role as a teacher to develop the skills you will need as a manager.

In episode 2 of The Internet as a Virtual Textbook Series, Damien Herlihy focuses on the power of habit tracking and how it can help your English students get more from their time outside of the classroom.

Being an English teacher allows you to work in many different places around the world. But what are the things you need to know before you decide to pack your bags and move to a different country? And what are the most important things to bear in mind when working abroad? In his first video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia tells you the 7 most important lessons he’s learnt from his experience living and working with ELT in different countries.

Damien Herhily talks about the concept of students using the Internet as a virtual textbook as an introduction. By the end of the series, you'll be able to better help your students practise English outside of the classroom.

In his first blog for Pavilion ELT, Gerhard Erasmus talks about how as a manager, he aims to provide his teaching team with as many opportunities and skills as they are ready for because when the next big promotion comes up, they better be ready. He says he celebrates their promotions probably more than they do themselves, even feeling like he’s succeeded when they succeed! Consequently, when he had a discussion with one of his teachers fairly recently – someone he rates quite highly as a teacher – he ended up being slightly annoyed by the fact that this person had avoided taking up opportunities to present on training days or mini-conferences they’d arranged and also declined becoming a line manager for a part-time teacher. This led to a bit of a rethink... read on to find out what happened next.