Tom Garside
TESOL teaching mistakes to avoid 3: Drilling to teach meaning
In this series of articles, we are looking at some common teaching actions which more often than not simply don’t work. If you find yourself
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Tom Garside
- Jan 15
- 4 min
TESOL teaching mistakes to avoid 2: Asking students to read texts out loud.
In this series of articles, we are looking at some common teaching actions which more often than not simply don’t work. If you find yourself
Tom Garside
- Jan 13
- 5 min
TESOL teaching mistakes to avoid 1: Asking 'what does this word mean?'
In this series of articles, we look at some common teaching actions which more often than not simply don’t work. If you find yourself doing
Tom Garside
- Jan 12
- 3 min
Trinity CertPT graduate Julie Chen interview
We're proud of all our graduates, each one is a success story of their own. We know how hard you all worked, so we were delighted when our
Tom Garside
- Jan 2
- 2 min
Working in China in 2023
If you've been thinking of travelling to China to teach, and have been waiting for restrictions to end to have the opportunity to experience
Tom Garside
- Dec 21, 2022
- 1 min
Another year of global connections - countries we have connected in 2022
In the 18 months since we last looked back at the trainers, teachers, trainees and students that we worked with in 2021, from 60 countries
Tom Garside
- Dec 13, 2022
- 3 min
Word by word: An adaptable activity to teach word order and sentence grammar
So much of a teacher’s time is spent either correcting errors or working on the smallest parts of English grammar: prepositions, articles
Tom Garside
- Dec 2, 2022
- 4 min
3 activities to help learners use the passive voice correctly
The passive voice is an important structure for intermediate learners of English to get to grips with. Being a voice (rather than a tense),
Luke MacGregor
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
From the UK to Hong Kong - What the Language Point Trinity CertTESOL has done for me
When my work as a photographer dried up during the pandemic, in 2021, I took the opportunity to complete the Trinity CertTESOL with Language
Tom Garside
- Nov 24, 2022
- 3 min
Implementing Multiple Intelligences in the language classroom
Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory aims to reach the widest range of intelligence spectrums in learners. By stimulating the different intell
Tom Garside
- Nov 17, 2022
- 3 min
A Multiple Intelligences approach to teaching.
Howard Gardner was something of a left-field thinker who took a long hard look at public schools in the US and Canada, and noticed something
Tom Garside
- Nov 12, 2022
- 3 min
What is Bloom’s taxonomy and why does it still matter?
In 1956, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a wide-ranging theory of learning, which was split into three domains: the
Tom Garside
- Nov 8, 2022
- 4 min
How to use the International Phonetic Alphabet 2 - Awareness-raising
the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be a tricky thing for teachers to get familiar with. However, it does provide a valuable resou
Tom Garside
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
How to use the International Phonetic Alphabet 1 - Transcribing speech
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an essential tool in teaching pronunciation. Drilling words and phrases one by one can teach
Tom Garside
- Oct 23, 2022
- 5 min
4 ways to adapt teaching materials for your students
If you follow a curriculum with your students, the content that you teach is likely not to be the best match for everyone in the class. Text
Tom Garside
- Oct 7, 2022
- 5 min
Why is there still prejudice in the TESOL world against ‘non-native' speaker teachers?
In the context of initial teacher education, teacher trainers are the first point of contact between many course trainees and the English
Tom Garside
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
A fresh start for 2023 - There’s never been a better time to travel and teach!
After two years or more of uncertainty about the future, countries closing down and opening up, only to close down again, it looks like ther
Tom Garside
- Sep 23, 2022
- 5 min
What is chunking, and how can it aid language learning?
When we speak, listen and even think, our brain does not process language word by word, dealing with individual meanings one by one. In fact
Tom Garside
- Sep 12, 2022
- 4 min
Why language teachers should never explain in English
When we think about a teacher’s job, one of the most important things that they should be able to do is to explain tricky ideas, right?
Tom Garside
- Sep 7, 2022
- 3 min
5 ways the Trinity CertPT is different from other teacher training qualifications
The Trinity College London Certificate for Practising Teachers (CertPT) is growing in recognition among experienced teachers who want to
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