Learning Design for TEFL

The success of a lesson isn’t about flashy tech or perfect grammar explanations. It’s largely about learning design.

And yet most TEFL teachers never get taught how to design learning. We get handed a coursebook and told to teach two pages per class. Maybe we were shown how to write aims or plan an activity - but no one explained why certain lessons flow and others flop.

Let’s fix that.

In this article, we’ll walk through what learning design actually means, why it matters, and how you can use it t...