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 make online lessons fun and effective

Now that we’ve managed to start teaching online without training all of a sudden, it’s time for us to think about how to select games, texts and videos to make lessons more interactive. In his fourth video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares 5 ways to improve the quality of online English lessons of students, using communicative methodology, free online tools and authentic materials.

5 tips to use videos in your English lessons

Videos are everywhere and have been a staple of English Language classrooms for a while. But do we get the most out of them in our lessons? In his latest video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares five tips to make more effective use of video in lessons.

8 Tips on How to Teach English Online

In his third video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares his tips to help you feel better prepared for online teaching and more confident to choose apps for online English lessons.

5 things to try in English lessons and career in 2021

2020 posed many challenges for us teachers, but also helped us see that the ways we could keep teaching. Now it’s time to look forward and set goals for the year ahead. So, our first vlog of 2021 describes 5 ways you could try to improve your lessons and keep on developing your career.

5 lessons I’ve learned from teaching online

A lot has happened since we had to start teaching remotely. In this video, Rubens looks back and thinks about what we’ve learnt from our experience teaching English during the pandemic and how it can be useful as we start teaching in ‘the new normal’.