A very successful Literacy for Learning tutor training in Melbourne this month. Thank you to Craigieburn Secondary College for hosting our 18 participants. Great course. Very engaging and interactive. The original LfL course that I did spearheaded my enthusiasm and expanded on my love for …
An easy naming of English tenses
Tense is an important aspect of the English language but many languages do not have tense and so, initially, it can be a major hurdle for multilingual students. The problem for these students is that there are many tense choices available and using traditional terms to name each one, such as present …
Britannica International School Budapest
Adam Monnington is a Year 4 class teacher at Britannica International School in Shanghai where he has worked for the past 5 years. Adam also has responsibility for English as a cross phase co-ordinator from EYFS to Secondary. Part of this position is what initially led him towards the …
Visual representation: a great strategy to support EAL students’ reading
Visual representation categorises and organises ideas in a particular way. This broad term encompasses other terms such as graphic outline, structured overview and concept map. It is one of a number of pre-reading strategies which assists students to gain meaning from the text by: providing a …
Lexis Education wins Runner Up prize for COBIS Supporting Member of the Year Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Lexis Education has won theRunner Up prize at the prestigious COBIS Supporting Member of the Year Awards 2019. We would like to thank the wonderful British School of Jakarta for nominating us. We are genuinely humbled to receive such warm recognition from the …
The brain and teaching: using research on neuroplasticity to inform our teaching
The human brain is a hugely complex organ and the talk about it is complex and often hotly contested. The fact that it garners a lot of attention in the media as well as in popular literature makes talk of the brain increasingly interesting, and necessary, for educators. This article sets out to …