Teaching Ideas and Research in Education

Find links here to articles, journals, PDFs and other sites that provide you quick and easy access to current and past research in a range of areas relating to languages education.

The Six Radical Secrets of a More Productive Classroom: This newspaper article looks at some incredibly simple ideas that can be implemented in classrooms to enhance student engagement, and outlines (briefly) some research taking place in the UK to see how effective these practices are.

Want Children to Pay Attention Make Their Brains Curious: This article looks at the importance of curiosity when it comes to engaging students in their learning. The author explains the neurological research behind this idea, giving simple, effctive strategies for getting students' attention and keeping it.

(by pure coincidence, both of these articles look at the use of small whiteboards for each student in a classroom, seen as a useful tool for engagement - purchase classrooms sets of Mini-Whiteboards here at The Happy Teacher under Teacher Tools)

Boys Learning Languages - published in Babel Magazine in July 2006

For reading material in the area of Boys Education, including Boys and Languages Learning, browse through publications in our Teacher Tools, for example, Boys Performance in Modern Foreign Languages, Getting the Buggers Into Languages, Teaching the Male Brain...

Multiple Intelligences & Learning Styles – a simple, easy-to-understand explanation of these two theories and what they mean for us when catering to learners in our classrooms.

The Active Learning Cone – how much of what we read and hear do we actually remember several weeks later? The Active Learning Cone and the explanation accompanying it show that it takes active involvement on the part of the student in order to learn and retain information.