Met Editor

The World Economic Forum identifies creativity as one of the top three skills that students will need to thrive in 2020, but can you teach it? Allen Davenport proposes a framework which you can use as a guideline to foster creativity with your learners.

Lindsay Warwick offers practical ideas for differentiating lesson tasks and outcomes.

The Palgrave series cover skills, study, strategies, success and English. The title includes four of these five. Is this the one to buy? Read our review.

It is going to be October by the time you read this, but I am writing it in August at the end of an interesting summer. The theme of this issue is Methodology and Approaches, and my aim was to try and assess what teachers are using these days and whether there are any particular styles which are proving more successful than others.

The challenges brought by technological advances, globalisation, the demand for equal opportunities and better quality in the teaching profession and engagement with research.

In the December instalment of our Teaching Tip series, Danny Norrington-Davies provides lesson ideas which include technology.

One of the effects of online teaching has surely been that students (or at least the most diligent of them) have had to take more responsibility for their learning and do a lot more self-study. This is reflected in several articles in this issue, which look at ways of encouraging greater autonomy amongst our students.

What a variety of outside interests our contributors have! In our main feature, Clare Hampton explains how her experience of playing World of Warcraft, and her achievement of the status of ‘level 100 mage’, have given her insights into ways to enhance and improve her students’ experience of learning English.

James Pointon reviews Is That Clear? Effective communication in a multilingual world by Zanne Gaynor and Kathryn Alevizos.

In the first instalment of our series, Dale Coulter tells us his favourite new word.

In the third instalment of our series, Ben Beaumont tells us his favourite new word.

In the fourth instalment of our series, Vanessa Reis Esteves tells us her favourite new word.

In the fifth instalment of our series, Lindsay Warwick tells us her favourite new word.

In the second installment of our series, Katherine Bilsborough tells us her favourite new word.

In the final instalment of our series, Jason Anderson tells us his favourite new word.