reduce, reuse, recycle your language teaching (and learning!)

We can literally recycle in the language classroom.

Writing in the latest issue of the E L Gazette, teacher Stephen Tarbuck offers his ideas to reuse scrap paper in the classroom:

Reduce (prep-time), Reuse (activities), Recycle (paper) - E L Gazette

The Comprehensible Classroom looks at a whole lot of things to help us 'reduce, reuse, recycle' when teaching. Here are the headings:

Reduce waste

In the area of language teaching and language acquisition, I see two big categories of waste reduction: we can reduce linguistic waste and we can reduce wasted time.

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Reuse what's working

The brain craves novelty, and so we often feel the need to try all the things and have a completely fresh lesson every day. Of course, injecting novelty in your curriculum by trying out new activities and introducing your students to new games is part of what we do, but so is sticking with what is working. Here are some strategies and activities that I use over and over and over and over!

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Recycle content

Repeated exposure to information and language forms improves both processing and confidence. I've shared some of my favorite ways to recycle content in the past (check out this post!), and I'll share a few favorites here, too:

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The Comprehensible Classroom | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Stick with…

Reusing/recycling is always a good thing - if done well:

Recycled Readings for English Language Teaching

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