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Teacher Development 2: Lesson Observation, part 2

19 de janeiro de 2017

As I said in my previous post on lesson observation, I don’t see lesson observation as police work, i.e. observers should never simply walk into teachers’ classes unannounced to observe them. Therefore, the way I see it, observation should always be done in three stages: pre-observation meeting (when observer and observed discuss the group, the...Read More

Teacher Development

action plan, feedback, Lesson observation, observed teacher, observer

On attending teacher’s conferences

19 de agosto de 2016

by Higor Cavalcante

I am now on a plane on my way to Natal-RN, where I’ll participate tomorrow in BRAZ-TESOL Rio Grande do Norte’s symposium, and I took this time to write this… ‘comeback post’, after a pretty long hiatus. Many months ago, I wrote a post on lesson observation here, and have owed the blog readers a...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

BRAZ-TESOL, conferences, teacher’s conferences

A community of giants

19 de julho de 2015

by Higor Cavalcante

I will start this month’s post by apologizing, and for two different reasons. First, I haven’t posted on RichmondShare since January, and I am truly very sorry for that. I was finishing my first book (yay!) and saying I’ve been really snowed under lately is putting it mildly. But I’m back – thanks for waiting!...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

BRAZ-TESOL, conferences, IATEFL

Teacher Development 1: Lesson Observation, part 1

29 de janeiro de 2015

by Higor Cavalcante

Happy New Year, everyone! As promised in my December post, this year I’ll be discussing what I believe to be a key issue in ELT, namely teacher development. In no particular order, and evidently not aiming at exhausting the subject – which would be impossible –, I hope to be able to, in twelve posts,...Read More

Teacher Development

Planning to thrive in 2015

19 de dezembro de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

It is that time of the year again. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been the type of guy who devotes quite a lot of time to planning his new year’s resolutions and, at the end of the year – now! – has no idea what they were or whether he’s achieved them....Read More

Career, Teacher Development

new year resolutions, plans for 2015, teacher development

The importance of reading for language development – part 2

20 de julho de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

This post continues from where this one left off. How to read for language development I honestly believe that the sheer fact of being reading constantly and on a wide array of topics — books of different genres, newspaper articles, blogs, reports and so on — for information and/or pleasure is good enough and will...Read More

Career, Vocabulary

improving language, language development for teachers, reading

The importance of reading for language development – part 1

19 de maio de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

The way I see it, reading vastly and variedly is the most important language-learning exercise there is. Extensive reading — which Thornbury (2006, p 191) defines as being the more leisurely reading of longer texts, primarily for pleasure, or in order to accumulate vocabulary, or simply to develop sound habits of reading — helps develop...Read More

Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

language development for teachers, reading

Can they have been being seized?

19 de abril de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

Hello everyone! I want to start this month’s post apologizing for my… silence last month. I’ve got only myself to blame – anyone writing about organization skills out there? – and can just promise it won’t happen again. Scout’s honor. So let me pick up from where we left off last time: I ended by...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

language development, language development for teachers

Do we need to work on our English?

19 de fevereiro de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

Following up on last month’s post, I’d like to dedicate this month’s installment to discussing the following question: What does it mean to know a language? Or, more to the point, what does it mean for a teacher of English to know the language? Without getting very technical and/or long-winded, it is my opinion that...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

courses for teachers, English for teachers, language development for teachers, non-native teachers

Language development for teachers

19 de janeiro de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

First of all, it’s an honor to be blogging here on RichmondShare along with some of the brightest stars in the Brazilian ELT market, and also a little scary! Thanks Richmond for the invitation and thank you all for reading! Now to the topic at hand: language development for teachers. Scott Thornbury (1997) wrote –...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

English for teachers, language development for teachers, native teachers, nonnative teachers