5 things you should stop doing in your English lessons

By Rubens Heredia

2024-01-12

1 min.

Have you set any teaching resolutions for the new year? Or have you been thinking about things you can do to make your lessons more engaging and effective in 2024? We normally think about things we can do more of, in order to improve our teaching. But what about what we should be doing less of?

In this vlog, Rubens Heredia shares 5 teaching habits and common practices that he thinks we could resolve to ditch in the new year in order to make lessons more effective and fun. Are any of these on your own list? Is there anything you would add to the list of things to ditch? Share your ideas in the comments or on our social media, and let us know how you get on with Rubens’ tips!

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Payne, C. (2001) Cognitive Load Theory revisited: avoiding overload. English Teaching Professional, (137).

Prodromou, L. (1999) How to be a boring teacher. English Teaching Professional, (12).

Sousa, B. (2023). Clichés in ELT – how and why they may harm our performance Modern English Teacher, 32 (6).

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Rubens Heredia has been a vlogger for Pavilion ELT since December 2019. His vlog posts draw upon his experiences as a teacher and teacher trainer, as well as the ones as a student of Catalan and they provide a huge variety of teaching tips and techniques to use in the classroom, in flipped learning and in live online classes. Rubens is currently working as a freelance CELTA trainer, based in Barcelona, and he is the co-founder of whatiselt.com, a website and social media platform dedicated to helping English teachers and teacher trainers with definitions of common ELT concepts as well as examples and tips on how to use them more effectively in lessons. He began his teaching career in Brazil, where he taught one-to-one lessons and groups of children, teens and adults. Rubens has been involved in teacher training and course design for the last eight years. He's also a frequent speaker at international conferences and you can catch more from him on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @whatiselt.

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