I saw this list the other day, and I thought it was perfect for adapting for ELT bloggers. So I present, ripe and ready for your Pinterest board… 150 ELT blog post ideas for when you’ve hit writers block

1. Product review – something you use in the classroom which isn’t a book
2. Describe your perfect classroom
3. Describe your perfect student
4. Describe your perfect boss
5. Invite someone to do a guest post (but only if they have a track record or you trust them)
6. Tell us who you are. Who you really are.
7. Top 5 resources
8. A day in your life
9. Or a day in someone else’s life
10. Write about the ELT scene in your country
11. An activity idea
12. Top 10 blogs you read
13. Wishlist – what would change about ELT if you could?
14. What’s your favourite app to use in class?
15. What’s your inspiration?
16. How do use photos in the classroom?
17. 5 go-to activities
18. Describe project work with students
19. Last minute lesson ideas
20. What’s in your teacher’s bag? In other words, what do you take to every class?
21. What’s on your phone, apart from apps, that you use in the classroom?
22. Top 5 apps
23. Can you use apps like Instagram in the classroom, or is it not worth it?
24. Five things that make your students happy
25. What’s your recipe for the perfect class?
26. Is there a difference in teaching in the daytime to the night time?
27. Blogging tips
28. 20 Facts about yourself
29. Quick & easy homework ideas
30. Does it matter what you wear to teach?
31. Songs you use with your students
32. Fitness & health tips for teachers
33. Have a clear out
34. Teacher of the day / week / month / year
35. Review of a conference
36. Places to watch webinars
37. How you stay organised
38. 5 Things you learned this week
39. Seasonal post eg. favourite Halloween lesson ideas
40. Do you have a routine?
41. Teach paperless
42. How to eat well quickly
43. How you choose your photos
44. Behind the scenes of your blog
45. Why you started blogging
46. An experience/story you went through
47. An old favourite activity that never lets you down
48. Tell us about a time it went wrong
49. Disappointing things about teaching
50. Monthly favourites
51. Your teachers bucket list
52. Favourite places to get away from work, online or offline
53. React to another blog post
54. 10 quotes you love
55. The moment when everything changed
56. The awkward student
57. Top budget book buys
58. A post about methodologies you don’t use
59. Blogging goals or resolutions
60. Favourite TV series’ for students to improve their listening
61. What you did in your first year as a teacher
62. How do you treat yourself?
63. A recent event you attended
64. Is it different teaching in winter as opposed to summer?
65. Blogging advice/your success
66. How you promote your blog
67. A personal post about something you deal with
68. The unteachable student
69. How you achieve clear instructions
70. Favourite writing topics
71. Campaign to change things for the better
72. Interview a professional/blogger
73. Professional inspirations
74. Where should I work?
75. Crafting in the classroom
76. Things you’ve learned since turning __
77. Gift ideas for teachers
78. Currently trending
79. A new release
80. Working at home
81. Places you want to teach
82. How to develop online for free
83. How to make a class go smoothly
84. How to manage time
85. How to stop your students from falling asleep
86. Things to do when you’re bored of teaching
87. Then & now pictures
88. Your school experience
89. Things you’d tell your younger self
90. Guilty pleasures
91. Book review
92. Books to read
93. Affordable software
94. How to curb unhealthy habits in your teaching
95. How to curb unhealthy habits in your students
96. How to overcome writers block
97. What is currently inspiring you
98. How to teach ____
99. Recently watched presentations
100. What blogging has taught you
101. Favourite stationery
102. A before & after
103. Find an influence from outside ELT
104. Underrated & overrated ideas in ELT
105. What does every student need to learn?
106. Write something funny
107. Write something in a different person’s voice
108. 10 life lessons
109. Job interview tips
110. DIY activities
111. Places you’ve traveled to in the classroom
112. Highlight milestones, launches & important events
113. Share a free resource
114. Flashback post on your life
115. The best advice you’ve received
116. Pros & cons post
117. A diary entry
118. An open letter
119. A link roundup
120. An FAQ
121. A beginners guide to blogging
122. Tips for improving your instructions
123. What I learned from ___
124. Your process for creating & publishing blog posts
125. How to make money blogging*
126. A free printable worksheet
127. A comparison post (eg Dogme vs Demand High)
128. Your blogging mistakes
129. New methodology ideas
130. Tell us a story
131. A tradition of yours
132. Products every teacher has to own
133. Summarise an #eltchat
134. The best ways to teach vocabulary
135. Grammar – overrated or the backbone of language learning?
136. Your workplace
137. How you improved (or need to improve) your boardwork
138. A new routine
139. How to get ready for a class in 10 minutes
140. A 5 minute activity
141. Favourite youtubers/youtube videos
142. Top 5 websites to learn from ____
143. How important are qualifications, really?
144. Let’s collaborate
145. Thoughts on learning online
146. How do you deal with new students arriving during a course?
147. How to switch off and relax
148. ELT specialities – have you taught something or someone not many people have?
149. Why bother testing?
150. Revisit and rewrite an old blog post

And don’t ever say you’ve got nothing to write about again!

*Let me know if you write this one 😉

Thanks to my pal Daniela Sanchez Medina for the drawings.