In this section, you will find a number of blog posts, which have been written to help you develop your skills and knowledge as a teacher in the professional practice 'Promoting 21st century skills'. From primary-aged students to adult learners of English, the blog posts you will find here are practical, insightful and full of ideas to support your teaching and planning for all kinds of classrooms.

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"Extensive Reading" a gate to promoting critical thinking
Reading is one of the targeted skills to be taught in class. We all familiar with reading for gist/specific info/...
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21st Century Boy
In ELT, and in education in general, there are many terms and phrases that seem to be ‘in fashion’ at a particular time.
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Ceri Jones - This is just to say...
This is one of my favourite ways in to using poetry in the classroom.
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Critical Material For Critical Thinking
What is critical thinking? Dr. Richard Paul defines it as, ‘the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to...
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Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking skills, according to the many existing definitions, include observation, interpretation, analysis,...
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Critical Thinking – a crucial 21st century skill
'The purpose of critical thinking is rethinking: that is, reviewing, evaluating, and revising thought.' Jon Stratton
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Dave Dodgson: A year in review. Three Quick Ideas to Start your 2015 Classes
Just like that another year has passed and I find myself missing the deadline for festive posts not just by a day or...
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David Petrie: Clickbait, Memes and sharing the truth – activities for digital literacies
One of Gavin Dudeney’s recent articles on this site explores the ideas of digital literacies and emphasises the...
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Developing 21st century skills in the classroom
How can we help our students to develop 21st century skills? I would like to help with some classroom activities to...
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Favourite Activity: See-Think-Wonder
My favourite activity is the See-Think-Wonder thinking routine from the Visible Thinking Programme (Harvard University-...
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Gamifying the reading
To what extent do you use realia and real-world tasks to develop reading and writing skills? How does this help...
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Global Citizens
To educate, empower and add value to life
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Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
One has to keep in mind that skills such as Creativity and Imagination, Collaboration, Critical thinking, Citizenship,...
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How to Implement 21st Century Skills in Class
21st century skills are a real buzz-word. Let's see how we can make those easily form part of our lessons.
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Larry Ferlazzo: Critical thinking
Critical thinking, though universally hailed as an important skill for students to develop doesn't appear to have a "...
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Life Skills at A0 level
Learning to be a learner is a part of successful learning.
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Projects: Setting students up for success
Projects are a great way to develop language and other essential skills, however we need to give students a bit more...
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Rachael Roberts: 21st century skills
21st century skills is a term that everyone seems to be talking about, yet no-one seems entirely sure what exactly it...
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Teaching presentation skills to promote inclusivity
How lessons on presentation skills bring different people together.
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World events - Do they have a place in the ELT classroom especially with younger learners?
Gone are the days when language teaching was confined to using text books and prescribed course content. With the...
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