Anna Hasper

Anna Hasper is an experienced teacher development specialist and has been involved in English language teaching since 2002. She trained as a primary teacher and worked as an ELT teacher and DoS before moving to the Middle East. Over the years, Anna has worked as a teacher and trainer in a wide variety of contexts and roles. She is currently based in Dubai where she works as a CELTA tutor and assessor and designs and delivers training courses for Ministries and leading educational publishers. Alongside this, she is involved in course and content writing. She is super passionate about anything related to making better learning happen! Her research interests concern language teachers and language teacher educators' professional learning and educational psychology with an emphasis on social emotional wellbeing and motivation which is also the focus of her current doctoral studies. Anna’s passionate about educational psychology and teacher learning and runs: www.teachertrain.org

How are your emotional skills?

Anna Hasper discusses how teachers need to act as good emotional role models and how learners need to develop their own understanding of emotions and how to control them.

I’m a YL teacher of English, why should I consider all that?

All children have different needs, levels, interests and maturity levels. This article describes some activities and approaches to make your teaching meaningful and engaging.

Can you hear me?

Learners have to listen to a lot before they even get to class so making sure the listening tasks are interesting and fun is key to getting the class to enjoy listening practice. Humanising the online classroom can also lift their mood, and help them maintain focus.

Igniting the fire within: motivating online learners

Do you find it hard to motivate learners online? Are they finding the tasks difficult or challenging? What do you do to make them feel part of a learning community? This article answers some of these questions.

Rethinking teaching and training in times of Covid-19

Anna Hasper looks back at two of her recent online classes and reflects on the role of the teacher. How can you create a caring environment online? How can you stop learners feeling isolated? Some useful activities are suggested to make learning more personal and inclusive.