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Professional, engaging, ready to use resources. PowerPoints, Worksheets, Crosswords
I have a varied background working in both education and the corporate world. I've held management roles, teaching roles and entrepreneurial ventures. I've been involved in adult education for the past two decades. My teaching areas are computing and workplace communication skills. I also have my CELTA and have experience teaching English as a second language. I love creating resources for all of the above.
This 15 slide powerpoint training presentation shows learners show to summarise text. This is an essential skill that takes practice to master. The resource also contains worksheets that complement the presentation.
Files are available in pdf and ppt editable format.
Presentation Content:
What does summarising mean?
Strategies to use when summarising – Nutshell method
What Not to Summarise
Task 1 – Write a summary about yourself
Task 2 – Summarise a passage – example answer provided
Task 3 – Group Activity – summarise an article
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Looking for an engaging and interactive lesson that helps your students develop self-awareness and communication skills in the workplace and classroom? Look no further than our comprehensive PowerPoint presentation on the Johari Window!
This 20-slide presentation is packed with easy-to-understand explanations, colorful graphics, and interactive activities that will help your students gain a deeper understanding of their own personalities and communication styles. With no prep required, this presentation is the perfect addition to your classroom curriculum!
Learning Objective:
Define the Johari Window
Understand & describe examples of each quadrant of the Johari Window
Describe the benefits of utilizing the Johari Window
Formats Provided:
Interactive, engaging Powerpoint Presentation file (ppt and pdf)
Teacher Notes (word and pdf)
Activities for students to complete
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This is a 20 slide professional presentation that also contains word templates for learners to work on as part of the training presentation. The presentation includes step by step processes and you-tube examples. There is also a teachers document that contains extra information relating to the slides.
Learning Objectives:
You will learn how to Brainstorm effectively to generate ideas.
You will then use the Fish Bone Analysis tool to identify the cause and effect of a workplace problem.
Finally, you will create a SMART goal to address the problem.
This is an effective introduction for learners that are about to embark upon a project in any industry. It encourages good practice for resolution of issues and problems. It gives them essential skills to work through issues using logical methods.
Do your students need an engaging, interactive PowerPoint Presentation about Giving and Receiving Feedback in the Workplace? Are you after a no prep resource that has everything you need to start the lesson? Feedback is an essential communication skill that needs practice to be mastered.
They will learn how to provide feedback that is constructive, supportive, and focussed on improvement as well as how to receive feedback effectively.
Topics Covered:
What is Feedback?
What is not Feedback?
Why is Feedback important?
Types of Feedback
−Assessment | Peer to Peer | Workplace
Best practices for Giving and Receiving Feedback
Becoming Feedback friendly
If you don’t agree with feedback
Resources Provided:
20 Slide PowerPoint presentation (ppt and pdf) editable
Teacher notes - viewed electronically and a print out provided (word, pdf)
Feedback Assessment tool handout (word, pdf)
Peer Feedback Roleplay Scenario handout (word, pdf)
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Zoom is a platform to interact online. Use it for video conferencing, online meetings, webinars, chat, teaching, training, distance learning, family meetings and general collaboration. If you’ve been thrown in the deep end with digital learning, then this resource is what you need.
This guide provides step by step instructions with lots of pictures to make it easy to understand. This will give you the confidence to participate in and run (host) effective online classrooms and meetings.
The topics covered are below:
Introduction to Zoom
Signing up to Zoom
Join a Meeting via Email
Join a Meeting using a Unique Code
Host a Meeting and invite participants
Schedule a Meeting using the desktop
Meeting Controls
Class Waiting Room – Setting Up
Class Waiting Room – Accept into Meeting
Add a Virtual Background
Lock Meeting
Use the Whiteboard
Share Screens
Breakout Rooms
Record your Meeting
Assigning another person as Host
Zoom Shortcut Keys
Classroom Etiquette / Tips
Business Etiquette / Tips
Copyright | Terms of Use
Contents
This resource contains rules, examples, and short challenges for commonly confused words and grammatical errors. It is fully editable so that you can change examples to suit your audience if you wish. They can be printed out and cut up to use in group / pair activities or printed out as a whole resource (workbook) for learners to work on individually. It covers the following:
1. There, Their, They’re
2. To, Two, Too
3. Accept vs Except
4. Your vs. You’re
5. A lot vs alot vs allot
6. Lose vs Loose
7. Its vs It’s
8. No vs know
9. Threw vs through
10. Correct use of semi-colon (;)
11. Affect vs Effect
12. Assure, Ensure, Insure
13. Proper use of Commas
14. Using ‘s’ to show plural and possessive (the difference)
15. Passed vs past
16. Weather vs whether
17. A vs An
18. Capitalisation in Sentences
19. Farther vs further
20. Compliment vs complement
How to Use this Resource
This resource contains 20 rules and example cards that can be used in the following ways:
1. As a revision e-book for anyone that needs a quick refresh on the most common writing errors.
2. As a group or pair activity for learners to practice and test each other in various ways.
Instructions / Ideas for Group Activities
Activity 1 – Group or pair competition
1. Print out the rules that you would like your learners to work on. (Laminate to keep them fresh, if you want).
2. Hand out 1 card to each pair or group. Have them read it and complete the short challenge. (Check to see if they have it correct – an answer sheet is provided)
3. Learners then present their task to whole group to complete (on whiteboard). This can be timed.
4. Groups get 1 point for each task that is correct.
5. Groups then brainstorm ideas to remember the associated rules.
6. Points are tallied up and the winner is announced.
Activity 2 – Group discussion and trouble shoot session
1. Learners select a card and read it to the group
2. They complete the task themselves first of all writing up sentence and answer on whiteboard.
3. Group members state whether they agree or not with the answer and share their thoughts
4. The correct answer is revealed by the teacher
5. Groups brainstorm ideas to remember the rules.
Activity 3 – Individual work
1. Print out the resource in its entirety, or print out parts that you’d like to work on.
2. Learners complete by themselves, and then check their answers in pairs.
3. Answers revealed by teacher and corrected if necessary.
Activity 4 – As a Warm Up Activity
1. Select one card at the beginning of the session
2. Group discuss and agree the answer for the task.
3. In pairs or individually think up more tasks to challenge the rest of the group.
Print and Go worksheets. Contains Crossword puzzle, Word Search, Scramble, Crack the Code.
All activities use the same 18 words relating to New Year’s Day and New Year’s Eve. This is particularly useful for ESL Learners to gain familiarisation with the vocabulary.
Easter Crossword Puzzle, Word Search and Crack the Code to practice vocabulary around Easter.
These would be a useful activity in celebration of Easter. Great for free time, as part of a lesson, to practice common vocabulary or general filling in a gap. Can be completed individually or in pairs or groups.
The format is in both word and pdf for ease of printing and the ability to edit if necessary.
Are you a teacher looking for high-quality clip art to enhance your conflict resolution resources? Look no further! This set of 10 conflict resolution clip art images is perfect for your needs. Each image (png) comes in both color and black and white versions, with the option of a background or no background.
These clip art images feature adults in various work situations related to conflict, making them a great addition to your lesson plans or handouts. With these images, you can help your students visualize different conflict scenarios and learn how to resolve them in a positive and productive way.
Whether you’re creating a presentation, handout, or worksheet, these conflict resolution clip art images are sure to make your resources stand out. And with the option of a background or no background, you can easily integrate them into any design.
Image Descriptions:
4 people around a conference table - confrontational
Aggressive woman about to punch a man
Two men arm wresting
Two men with loud speakers - indicating shouting
Stressed out woman taking criticism
Supervisor correcting employee
2 work colleagues with papers sprawling
2 males and 1 female stressed out
Woman pointing her finger at man
Man hovering over woman at desk.
As the copyright owner of these images, I have taken great care to ensure that they are appropriate for a professional audience and meet the needs of teachers. Plus, you’ll receive my certificate of ownership for your peace of mind.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your conflict resolution resources with these high-quality clip art images. Buy now and empower your students to resolve conflicts in a positive and productive way!
This Google Forms training manual shows you step by step how to create quizzes that can be used in the classroom and in the workplace. There are lots of screenshots and graphics. The manual is in large print, clear and concise. Google quizzes can be self grading, and are completely digital. (Although you can easily print out a hard copy if required).
Once you have created your first quiz, you will never look back. This is a great way to test student knowledge, to recap, as a starter, or as a finisher.
Topics below:
Open Forms
The Forms Window
Setup to Make a Quiz
Setup – Release Grade
Setup – Respondents View
Adding a Title and Description
Adding Quiz Questions
Question Types
Responses – Multi-choice example
Responses – Check box example
Specify Correct Answers
12.Edit / Format a Quiz / Form
13.Customize Themes
14.Preview your Quiz / Form
15.Send your Quiz / Form
16.View Responses – Self Marking
17.Mark Responses – Grade Quiz Questions
18.View and Analysis Responses
Students love working their way through these interactive, fun Escape Rooms. This Digital Escape Room on Thanksgiving includes five challenges. There is absolutely no Preparation for the teacher!
Students can work through in groups or on their own. They move from room to room until all questions and activities have been completed correctly. This escape room has been created using Google Forms and is self checking.
A scenario is presented that sees the students embark on an exciting adventure where their keen investigative skills and knowledge of Thanksgiving traditions will be put to the test. Their mission is to solve the mystery of the stolen Thanksgiving artifacts from the Thanksgiving Art Museum. A cunning thief has taken valuable items related to this cherished holiday, and it’s up to them to discover who took them. As they progress through this escape room, they will follow a trail of clues, riddles, and puzzles that will lead them to the thief’s identity. Their journey will require them to unlock the secrets of Thanksgiving’s history, culture, and significance.
The objective calls for them to demonstrate knowledge on Thanksgiving, amongst other critical thinking skills. Once they pass through each challenge successfully they will have escaped the room and identified the thief.
**The tasks include working through the Challenges:
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Challenge 1: The Museum Mystery - involves research and Gap fill activity.
Challenge 2: Research to find out the year of a painting by Winslow Homer
Challenge 3: Thanksgiving Vocabulary - unscramble the words to escape to next room by entering a code.
Challenge 4: Learning about Thanksgiving history by watching a video and answering questions related to it.
Challenge 5: The Thanksgiving riddle challenge - students must work out what the riddles refer to.
To move to the next room students must input a code derived from the tasks.
The Escape room can be completed individually or in groups. They generally take about 1 period to complete.
You will need access to:
The Internet
Google Forms
YouTube to watch the video
Students love working their way through these interactive, fun Escape Rooms. This Digital Escape Room on Halloween includes five challenges. There is absolutely no Preparation for the teacher!
Students can work through in groups or on their own. They move from station to station until all questions and activities have been completed correctly. This escape room has been created using Google Forms and is self checking.
A scenario is presented that sees the student discovering a cryptic journal left behind by a ghostly resident. Their job is to analyze and decode the journal’s contents to find hidden clues and codes so that you can unlock the secrets of the room and escape! There is no option to Fail. Every page of the journal must be completed and the correct answer recorded for success!
The objective calls for them to demonstrate knowledge on Halloween, amongst other critical thinking skills. Once they pass through each station successfully they will have escaped the room.
The challenges include working through the Journal:
Page 1: Matching the image with a word and gap fill exercise.
Page 2: Reading and comprehension of top secret Journal Information. Short fictional text with multi choice comprehension questions.
Page 3: Halloween Crack the Code to decode secret words
Page 4: Watch a fun and informative video on the history of Halloween and answer questions relating to the video.
Page 5: The spooky riddle challenge - students must work out what the riddles refer to.
To move to next station students must input a code derived from the tasks.
You will need access to:
The Internet
Google Forms
Youtube to watch the video
This is a 20 slide powerpoint presentation that tackles the subject of Workplace Diversity. Our workplaces are made up of many different races, cultures and languages. This often creates communication problems that slow down production, cause misunderstandings and generally can create a divided workforce if issues are not addressed.
There is an editable ppt file and a pdf.
This powerpoint is for Supervisors and Managers that work in such an environment. It contains practical advice for dealing with language issues in particular.
Topics covered:
Definition
Manager’s responsibilities
The employee’s perspective
Use clear english
Other ways to bridge the gap
Assess understanding
This 46 slide presentation is a complete lesson that shows learners how to conduct themselves, prepare for and complete a job interview. It addresses questions that will arise during an interview and suggested responses. It is interactive in that there are tasks for learners to complete in pairs and groups. The lesson concludes with mock interview practice by participants.
It is provided in a ppt editable version and a pdf.
Topics Covered:
Sharing Experiences
Types of Interviews
Stages of an effective interview
The PAR technique
Body Language
Three most feared Questions
Practice a Mock Interview
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Your students will benefit from this interactive, engaging lesson on Conflict Resolution. They will learn how to manage internal and external conflicts. As well as learning about this for employment, social and the business world, it will make life easier for you as a teacher for class management. This resources is also fully editable.
Conflict Management is an important skill for business education, the workplace and the classroom. This resource covers areas of conflict such as competing, avoiding, accommodating, compromising and collaborating in a positive light. Students will enjoy the interactive lesson and real world challenges that this resource provides.
A power point presentation is provided with tasks for learners to complete as well as Teacher Notes that can be printed out to accompany the presentation. All of the files are fully editable so that you can make small changes to suit your audience if required.
The file formats are ppt, word, and pdf so that edits can be made to suit requirements.
Topics:
Definition and Examples of Conflict Management
Key Facts about Conflict
Conflict Management Styles
Skills to Manage Conflict
Task Challenges for Learners | Students
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This is a 25 slide engaging powerpoint presentation that covers the important topic of Active Listening. It includes information on Body Language, Questioning, Paraphrasing, Facial Expressions, and best practice techniques. It is provided with a warm up group excercise and a lesson plan.
Teachers notes are included that contains additional information and answers to questions that are posed to students.
There is a pdf version and a ppt version that can be edited if required.
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This is an editable resource in the form of a power point presentation that covers 20 of the most common writing errors. It can be used in classes to test learners knowledge in group settings. The explanations are contained in the notes area. This will be useful for discussion.
1. There, Their, They’re
2. To, Two, Too
3. Accept vs Except
4. Your vs. You’re
5. A lot vs alot vs allot
6. Lose vs Loose
7. Its vs It’s
8. No vs know
9. Threw vs through
10. Correct use of semi-colon (;)
11. Affect vs Effect
12. Assure, Ensure, Insure
13. Proper use of Commas
14. Using ‘s’ to show plural and possessive (the difference)
15. Passed vs past
16. Weather vs whether
17. A vs An
18. Capitalisation in Sentences
19. Farther vs further
20. Compliment vs complement
This lesson covers Passive, Assertive and Aggressive styles of communication,
ideas for gaining Confidence as well as the use of I statements to clearly communicate your message. Your students will enjoy the interactive lessons and the opportunity to practice their communication skills using real life scenarios.
The Resource contains a PowerPoint presentation and a student workbook. It is provided in ppt, pdf and word format so that it can be edited if necessary to suit your audience.
It will assist your learners in identifying behavior traits that could be creating barriers to effective communication both in the workplace and the classroom.
The interactive PowerPoint presentation contains activities for learners to practice their communication skills.
The 10 page workbook looks at different forms of communication and their application in the workforce. It is an interactive lesson that looks at passive, aggressive, assertive and indirect behaviors. There is opportunity for pair work and group work activities and discussion that explores the best way to handle situations.
I have used this with small groups of learners and it has been very well received. The session concludes with students carrying out roleplay activities.
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Engage your students in an educational exploration of transgender vocabulary with this comprehensive bundle of activities. Designed to enhance language skills and promote understanding, this resource provides a diverse range of engaging puzzles that will help students expand their knowledge and vocabulary related to the topic of transgender experiences.
This bundle includes three interactive puzzles: a crossword puzzle, a word scramble, and a crack the code activity. Each activity focuses on reinforcing key terms and concepts associated with the transgender community, fostering a supportive and inclusive learning environment. It is provided in both a printable and digital format.
The crossword puzzle challenges students to solve clues related to gender identity, gender expression, and other essential transgender-related terminology. This interactive exercise encourages critical thinking and vocabulary recall, allowing students to test their understanding while expanding their knowledge base.
The word scramble activity adds a fun twist to vocabulary practice. Students will unscramble jumbled letters to form transgender-related words and phrases. This engaging exercise not only strengthens vocabulary retention but also promotes spelling skills and cognitive agility.
In the crack the code activity, students will decipher a series of encrypted messages by using their knowledge of transgender vocabulary. By solving the coded messages, students will further develop their understanding of key terms while honing their analytical and problem-solving abilities.
This transgender vocabulary bundle is suitable for a variety of educational settings, including middle school, high school, or even as a resource for awareness events or workshops. It provides educators with a ready-made toolkit to facilitate discussions, promote inclusivity, and deepen students’ comprehension of transgender experiences and terminology.
Equip your students with the necessary language skills and empower them to build an accepting and inclusive society with this engaging Transgender Vocabulary Bundle.
Email is the most common form of communication in the workplace and it is important to get it right. The Resource contains an e-book that contains six critical steps to ensuring your email is delivered to the recipient in a professional manner. Common mistakes have been addressed for those that have English as a Second Language and there are some practical exercises to be completed around grammar within. The answers are also supplied.
The second resource is a PowerPoint presentation that is useful for leadership coaching. It is interactive, and in the notes page of the presentation there are examples of activities for the learners to participate in as you work your way through the presentation.
The average office worker receives around 80 emails each day. With that volume of mail, individual messages can easily get overlooked. Follow these simple rules to get your emails noticed and acted upon.
Don't overcommunicate by email.
Make good use of subject lines.
Keep messages clear and brief.
Be polite.
Check your tone.
Proofread.
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