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 'Using inclusive practices'. 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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All ELT teachers are teachers of Inclusive Practices
Just as “every teacher is a teacher of SEN” according to the new code of practice, it seems to me that every ELT...
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Capitalising on the Differences in ESL Classrooms
This post talks about how a teacher can capitalise on the differences students bring into the classroom
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Challenging Words
Behaviour can be challenging when teaching, but so can words - here are some examples of how we can challenge...
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Classrooms Without Borders
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Classrooms Without Borders
Can we really spin the globe and jump in into the unknown in our classroom? Or has the administrative part of our job...
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Embracing Inclusion
Teaching learners with special educational needs doesn’t come easy.
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Exploring Cultural diversity in language classroom
A Festival based theme for a lesson.
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Inclusivity
Inclusivity is a very broad term and encompasses aspects ranging from one’s thought process to one’s actions in what we...
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Inclusivity in Learning
When I saw that the topic for the TeachingEnglish blog for January - February was ‘Inclusivity’ I felt exhilarated by...
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Inclusivity: teaching and talking about refugees
How I started a discussion about the refugee crisis, history, and identity in my classroom - and why.
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Katherine Bilsborough: Using sketchbooks in the English classroom
As a freelance writer, usually with around a dozen projects on the go at any given time, no two days in my working life...
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Large and mixed group management
Do not over generalize your students' proficiency levels by making blanket classifications of good and bad students
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Managing differentiated learning in traditional language skills activities
Planning an activity which fits all students is a utopian dream. But, if we keep our feet on the ground, we need to...
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Planning for Planning, Language Demands and Opportunities
For young English Learners, let’s look at entire units ahead of time with three lenses in mind; Language Demands,...
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Special Needs
Working with SEN students is tough
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Teaching disparate levels of language learners in one classroom
In all parts of the world, teachers rejoice at teaching English to many different types of people, of various cultures...
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Teaching large classes - Drama techniques in classroom
Teaching large classes with mixed abilities can be easy by using drama techniques.
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The inclusive classroom – working with blind and partially sighted students
At first I was hesitant about writing this article because sometimes, when I was growing up, the people who frustrated...
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The Inclusive Teacher Checklist
In a previous blog post I pointed out that we are all in fact Inclusive Practitioners in our ELT classes, that doesn’t...
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Unplanned opportunities - A lesson in culture
There are often times in a lesson when an unplanned opportunity for learning - language or otherwise - arises. Think of...
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Weird celebrations in the classroom? Why not?
Celebrations and language teaching – does it match? Usually when you are in the classroom, you don’t have the time to...
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