Meditate your way to better teaching

[ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 10 | May 7, 2018 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Can meditation and mindfulness really make us better teachers?

Well the mounting evidence suggests yes!

Regular meditation can improve your immune system, energy levels, lower blood pressure, and enhance your sleep. And don’t forget its power to reduce feelings of anxiety or depression!

Over the last decade, various organisations have championed mediation and mindfulness to reduce stress, increase productivity, create calmer working environments, and improve the well-being of their employees. The educational sector is no exception. Meditation programs are now offered in schools worldwide. Many of these programmes focus on the learners, often boasting phenomenal results. (more…)

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BBC’s Caroline Wyatt on how language learning has been vital to her career

[ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 9 | April 16, 2018 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Caroline Wyatt has been reporting on global affairs and war for more than two decades, working as a foreign correspondent based in Germany, France and Russia for 15 years, and reporting from places including Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Egypt and Israel. In 2014, Caroline moved from reporting defence to covering global religious affairs and ethics. She moved in 2016 to making BBC radio documentaries after being diagnosed definitively with MS. Caroline grew up travelling the world thanks to her British diplomat father, and spent her teenage years in West Berlin during the Cold War. She is an occasional presenter for Radio 4’s Saturday PM programme, as well as The World This Week on World Service Radio.

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