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 tips to give feedback to students

What kind of feedback do you give your learners? Does it improve their grades or overall ability? Watch this vlog to get tips on correcting mistakes more effectively and how that can help learners understand their performance and then really improve.

5 tips to reduce lesson preparation time

Do you ever feel like you end up spending more time planning lessons than you would like to? In his latest video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares five tips to help you plan lessons more quickly and effectively.

5 ways to make lessons more student centred

Whether we are teaching online or having face-to-face lessons, it is important that we think about how to make English classes fun and relevant to students. In this video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares 5 tips to make lessons more student centred and engaging.

5 ways to make lessons interactive and fun with social distancing

As schools re-open, teachers are having to quickly adapt to ‘the new normal’. With classic tools of communicative lessons, like handouts and board games needing to be adapted or avoided, class dynamics become more challenging. This post discusses ways to keep lessons interactive while maintaining a safe distance.

7 Things You Need to Know Before You Start Teaching Abroad

Being an English teacher allows you to work in many different places around the world. But what are the things you need to know before you decide to pack your bags and move to a different country? And what are the most important things to bear in mind when working abroad? In his first video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia tells you the 7 most important lessons he’s learnt from his experience living and working with ELT in different countries.