Help and support for your classroom, whatever that looks like.

Thank you for vising our Teaching Through Crisis website. Teaching now is very different to how it was 20 years ago, and despite the changes and challenges, it has opened up different ways of teaching, and means that classrooms don’t necessarily need four walls. We also realise that teachers do not all have the same available time to join webinars and trainings, so we wanted to put together a support site that you can access whenever and wherever you are.

Together with National Geographic Learning authors and trainers we have put together a selection of resources to help you and your students should you, for whatever reason, be unable to conduct your usual ELT classes.

We hope they can provide you with support and guidance in your teaching, whatever your students' level or situation.

Please get in touch if you have any questions, and we wish you all the success in your classroom, whatever that looks like. National Geographic Learning

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LESSONS ON THE MOVE | FACEBOOK LIVE SESSIONS | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES|

| OTHER HELPFUL LINKS |

LESSONS ON THE MOVE

On this site you will find LESSONS ON THE MOVE Short video lessons aimed at Young Learner to Adult students – ideal for students to watch on their own or to watch in a classroom. Thank you to our authors and teacher trainers who took the time to record them.

Watch a lesson now from YouTube

FACEBOOK LIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS

Recordings from our Facebook Live series, hosted by author Emily Bryson.

In the sessions, we talk to educators for their experience and advice on topics such as Teaching learners from refugee backgrounds and Forced displacement. Trauma. Can ESOL provide effective relief?

Catch up on the recordings in YouTube

OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES

Links to National Geographic Learning professional development resources, including webinars and blogs to help you
in your classroom.

ADDITIONAL SITES FOR MORE SUPPORT

A catalogue of third-party videos, articles, blog posts and webinars shared by the speakers of our Facebook Live series to help yours and your students' development and wellbeing.

Charities and organisations

The Pandora Project >> helping with the mental health and well-being of helpers and aid workers.
Facebook: Refugee Concerns - RCIS: A TESOL Interest Section
Facebook: Trauma informed educators network
Ukraine Ministry of Education Support–resources have been made available to the MoE resource website to enable teachers in Ukraine to continue teaching
The Hands Up Project
Raise Up project

Stories

Video: British children and child refugees ask and answer questions about the refugee crisis in 2016 >> Children asking children
Video: To help children grasp the stories of refugees and what they go through, Save the Children have produced this video. The video can help teach Australian children about where refugees come from, what happened in their countries, and why they fled danger >> What is a refugee?
Video animation: International Refugee Assistance Project (for teenagers) >> A Refugee’s Journey - Animation (Teenagers), IRAP (International Refugee Assistance Project)
Video: Picture book turned into a film >> Carly, a refugee’s story