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Author: anna-hasper

Anna Hasper is a teacher, trainer and international English Language Teaching consultant based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Anna’s specialty is enabling teachers within local constraints, such as limited resources, to become the best teacher they can by enhancing all students’ learning opportunities through engagement. She has been working in the ELT industry for over 13 years and has worked on various projects for the british Council, International House, Ministries of Education, private schools, education providers and publishers in primary, secondary and vocational contexts. She loves exploring new places and learning about different cultures and has worked in a variety of countries such as China, Jordan, Iran, Uganda, Senegal, Algeria and Armenia. She currently writes and trains teachers for publishers and delivers a variety of Cambridge accredited teacher training courses (TKT, CELTA, YL Ex & Delta Module 3) around the world.

Flashcard Activities for the Young Learner Classroom

8 November 2018 Anna Hasper 21st Century Learners, Young Learners One comment

Welcome to our fifth post in this series. We hope you have enjoyed experimenting with the activities described so far! In this post, we are going to look in more detail at using flashcards, or picture cards as some call them, in the young learner classroom. If you are a very

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Why Images are Powerful for Learning

7 September 2018 Anna Hasper 21st Century Learners, Creativity in the Classroom, Photography Leave a comment

Welcome to the fourth post in this series. In this post, we will be looking at why images are so powerful in the language learning process and at bringing images into the classroom to develop our students’ creative thinking. The Social-Age You may have noticed, with the popularity of Instagram,

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Working Creatively with Images

27 June 2018 Anna Hasper 21st Century Learners, Creativity in the Classroom Leave a comment

‘CREATIVITY Is intelligence having fun’ (Einstein) Don’t you just love that quote? In previous blog posts we talked about the importance of developing creative teaching and the need to start with ourselves, becoming more creative as teachers. In the last blog post we explored a framework to use with existing

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Two Frameworks for Teaching Creatively in the ELT Classroom

4 May 2018 Anna Hasper Creativity in the Classroom 5 comments

Welcome to the second post in this series. In the previous post we looked at definitions of creativity and talked about the importance of developing creative skills in our classrooms, not only for our learners but also for teachers! In this post I’ll be looking at a framework you can

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What is creative thinking and why is it important

23 March 2018 Anna Hasper 21st Century Learners One comment

The idea that, as teachers, we need to foster learners’ creative thinking is something I’m sure you have heard before. So why is there so much attention in our current learning and teaching context on ‘being creative’ and developing thinking skills in the classroom? And are we only talking about

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Differentiation in the ELT Classroom

Interview: Anna Hasper on Differentiation in the ELT classroom

28 June 2017 Anna Hasper 21st Century Learners, Effective English, Interviews, Motivating Learners, Young Learners 3 comments

Listen to our interview with Anna Hasper on differentiation in the ELT classroom and her strategies to manage this – to ‘enable not label’. Have you read Anna’s article here?

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Differentiation in the Young Learner Classroom

There’s Only One of You: How to Cater for Differentiation in Young Learner Classes

28 June 2017 Anna Hasper 21st Century Learners, Effective English, Motivating Learners, Young Learners 6 comments

On my first day teaching English to a class of young learners I walked into a classroom full of 6-year-olds. As the young teacher I was then I had no idea of how different one 6-year-old could be from another. I mean, from the outside they all looked the same;

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Anna Hasper

Anna Hasper is a teacher, trainer and international English Language Teaching consultant based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Anna’s specialty is enabling teachers within local constraints, such as limited resources, to become the best teacher they can by enhancing all students’ learning opportunities through engagement. She has been working in the ELT industry for over 13 years and has worked on various projects for the british Council, International House, Ministries of Education, private schools, education providers and publishers in primary, secondary and vocational contexts. She loves exploring new places and learning about different cultures and has worked in a variety of countries such as China, Jordan, Iran, Uganda, Senegal, Algeria and Armenia. She currently writes and trains teachers for publishers and delivers a variety of Cambridge accredited teacher training courses (TKT, CELTA, YL Ex & Delta Module 3) around the world.

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  • 1 Alex Warren
    • 8 Tactics for using Technology in the Classroom
    • Voices from the Field: Songs in the ELT Classroom
    • Flipped Learning in the ELT Classroom
    • Voices from the Field: Giving Feedback
    • What is blended learning?
  • 1 Andrew Walkley
    • Repetition and word lists
    • In praise of repetition
  • 1 Anna Hasper
    • Flashcard Activities for the Young Learner Classroom
    • Why Images are Powerful for Learning
    • Working Creatively with Images
    • Two Frameworks for Teaching Creatively in the ELT Classroom
    • What is creative thinking and why is it important
  • 1 Christien Lee
    • A Critical Look at Critical Thinking
  • 1 Daniel Barber
    • Interview: Dan Barber on Why to Use TED Talks in your ELT Classroom
    • Six Reasons TED Talks Make Great English Lessons
  • 1 National Geographic Learning
    • Voices: Life as Lived in China
    • Life around the World Contest Continues
    • Life around the World Contest Continues!
    • Life Around The World: July Contest
    • Life around the World: June Contest
  • 1 Elaine Boyd
    • Four classroom assessment activities for young learners
    • Preparing Young Learners for Exam Success: Part Two
    • Three Strategies for Preparing Young Learners for Exam Success
  • 1 Gabby Salazar
    • How to Bring Nature Journaling into your Classroom
    • Bring the World into Your Classroom Through Photography
    • Capturing Culture in your Classroom
    • Become a Citizen Scientist
    • Interview: Gabby Salazar on Inspiring Environmental Responsibility in the YL Classroom through Photography
  • 1 Helen Stephenson
    • Motivation in your classroom: what’s in it for me?
    • Motivation in your classroom: completion
    • Motivation in your classroom: a micro approach
  • 1 Hugh Dellar
    • The Questions We Ask
    • Interview: Hugh Dellar on Speaking Out for Spoken English
    • Speaking Out for Spoken English
  • 1 Jodi Crandall
    • Projects for Young Learners
  • 1 John Hughes
    • Personalizing Culture
    • How To Personalize Culture
    • How to integrate critical thinking at lower levels
    • A global survey of critical thinking in the ELT classroom
    • Personalization: From ‘I’ to ‘you’ to ‘we’
  • 1 Katherine Bilsborough
    • Think, Pair, Share
    • We’re all different, we’re all the same!
    • K-W-L Charts: A simple way to promote critical thinking with young learners
    • Learning journals for young learners: what, why and how?
    • What do you prefer?
  • 1 Katherine Stannett
    • How To Get your Students Speaking in Class
    • Ways to Be Creative in your Classroom
    • Growth Mindset and Why Failure is a Positive word
    • Using Real Life Topics in your Classroom
    • Get ‘em Moving!
  • 1 Laura Le Dréan
    • Keys to Academic Success
  • 1 Lewis Lansford
    • TED Talks can make technical language accessible – try it!
    • Choose the perfect TED Talk for your students’ needs-try it!
    • You can use a TED Talk without looking at the picture – try it!
    • You can use a TED talk without the sound – try it!
    • TED Talks work for all levels – try it!
  • 1 Lisa Bu
    • A TED Way to Learn English
  • 1 Luciana Fernández
    • Developing Global Citizenship in Young Learners
    • Effective Phonics Routines in the Young Learner Classroom
  • 1 Paul Dummett
    • Making learning last: Multisensory approaches
    • Making Learning last: repetition, variation and rehearsal
    • Making learning last: emotion, personalization and the unexpected
    • Making Learning Last: Stories and imagery
  • 1 Sean Bermingham
    • Three New Literacies for Today’s Classroom
  • 1 Tom Fast
    • Interview: Tom Fast’s Guiding Principles for Teaching English
    • Three Things I’ve Learned about Teaching English

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