Rubens Heredia

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.

5 ways to use artificial intelligence in your lessons

Artificial intelligence tools are becoming more and more common. Using AI in lessons might seem like a thing of science fiction, but it’s easier than it sounds. In this video, Rubens Heredia shares five simple ways to integrate artificial intelligence into lessons.

5 tips to refresh and revise learning

Teachers usually encourage learners to review and revise what they studied in lessons. We claim that revisiting the new words and grammar is an essential part of learning. But how can we encourage students to do it? Watch to discover ways to help students revise and review language.

5 tips to get students to do homework

Homework can be very helpful to students and make the learning process more effective. So why do many students resist or fail to do it? Are we really giving learners the best and most appealing homework activities we can? Watch to discover five tips to get students to do (more) homework.

5 tips to teach grammar more effectively

Learning grammar is one of the most challenging tasks for many students. But does learning grammar actually have to be hard? How can teachers make grammar interesting and fun? Rubens shares five tips to make sure that learning new structures is meaningful and fun.

5 Tips to teach vocabulary more effectively

We all know how important it is to improve our vocabulary when studying English as a foreign language. But how can we teach new words to our students more effectively? In the third video of this series, Rubens Heredia shares five tips to make sure that students learn and remember new vocabulary.