Blogs and Vlogs from Pavilion ELT

When customers purchase a course, their exposure to your organisation isn’t limited to their classroom experience. Everything from your marketing to the course’s follow up influences the customer’s experience so understanding these journeys is vital.

Love it or hate it, assessment is part of almost every language course. Here, David Dodgson explains why he's learned to love it - and how he uses test scores to track progress, support students, and keep stakeholders focused on the bigger picture.

In his second video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares 6 strategies he uses to keep high engagement levels in the classroom and prepare students for the world outside.

When Michelle Ocriciano first moved to Australia she realized that her students kept saying ‘But English here is very different, right?’. Find out about different varieties of English, and its use as a lingua franca, and enjoy all the resources!

What do you do when your carefully planned class gets interrupted by students taking the conversation in new and different directions? Chiara Bruzzano reflects on the benefits and drawbacks of relinquishing some control and deviating from the lesson plan to allow for spontaneous student interaction in the classroom.

Following up on his first blog on why teachers might not want to manage, Gerhard Erasmus aims to help future and current managers develop their own road map to help them develop the skills and expertise needed to transition effectively into management. The post looks at skills that teachers have developed that can transfer into management, qualifications that can support the development of management skills, and how to utilise your current role as a teacher to develop the skills you will need as a manager.

20 years is a long time in English Language Teaching. To mark two decades since taking his Trinity Cert TESOL, David Dodgson shares 20 ideas and reflections he has had in that time. From the need to experiment and reflect to the importance of considering different points of view and challenging established ideas, whilst not forgetting some classroom basics, he has compiled a thought-provoking list. What would you add?

In episode 2 of The Internet as a Virtual Textbook Series, Damien Herlihy focuses on the power of habit tracking and how it can help your English students get more from their time outside of the classroom.

Language teaching is a particularly demanding subject and can drain teachers emotionally. Teachers are often concerned about students’ wellbeing, but tend to neglect their own. After the holidays in December, January is often seen as a good time to reflect, make some New Year’s resolutions and map out the year ahead or new term. So, if one of your resolutions is to take better care of yourself (or should be!), read Michelle Ocriciano’s straightforward tips on how to improve teachers’ wellbeing.

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.