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• Teaching Practice/24 August 2026/7 min read

  Teaching English When the Textbook Runs Out

  Most classrooms we work in have fewer books than pupils, and some have none at all. That is a constraint worth planning around rather than apologising for.

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• Teaching Practice/30 July 2026/6 min read

  Fifty Minutes, Sixty Students: Speaking Practice in Very Large Classes

  In a class of sixty, whole-class questioning gives each pupil about forty seconds of speaking time per lesson. Here is how to turn that into eight minutes.

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• Offline Access/2 July 2026/5 min read

  Why Every Resource on This Site Works Without a Signal

  Data is expensive, coverage is uneven, and the moment a teacher needs a lesson plan is rarely the moment they have a connection. So we built the library to be carried rather than visited.

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• Professional Development/11 June 2026/6 min read

  Starting a Teacher Study Group at Your Monastery

  Formal training is rare and expensive. A group of four teachers meeting for an hour a week is neither, and over a year it does more.

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• Teaching Practice/19 May 2026/6 min read

  Assessment Without Exams: Noticing What Students Can Already Do

  The end-of-term examination tells you what pupils could not do, several weeks too late to help them. Here are four ways of finding out sooner.

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• Classroom Materials/28 April 2026/7 min read

  Adapting Our Lesson Plans for Mixed-Age Classrooms

  A single class holding pupils from eight to fifteen is common in monastic schools. Our plans are written for one level, so here is how to stretch them across several.

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