Rubens Heredia

How do you usually start your lessons? Would you say you hook your students in? Watch to learn five ways to be truly engaging in those early and important minutes of your lessons, allow positive student interaction and perhaps become more effective in your teaching.

Rubens Heredia

It is often suggested that studying another language can help teachers gain insight into their learners’ needs. In this video, Rubens Heredia shares five tips to design and deliver effective English lessons based on the insights he’s gained studying Catalan for the last two years.

Imagine introducing a language point in class, or getting learners to read a dialogue in pairs or even a part of a lesson where you are working on word stress with your class… these are all familiar scenarios that can happen face to face or live online. And, in each one, you and/or learners are, in a sense, performers, using storytelling, role-play and voice exercises, with the classroom acting as your rehearsal space.

How important is it for young learners to have a love of stories? Should teachers be responsible for encouraging their students to think critically from a young age? These are the questions that inspire and define The Thinking Train series from Helbling Languages.