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Errors as Pedagogical Resource

27 de agosto de 2016

Hi Everyone! Let’s start talking about errors. Teachers usually see students’ errors as negative – as something to do away with. Not seeing them as a hint to the way learners make sense of the foreign language limits the teachers’ possibility of helping students and their own opportunity to learn from errors to overcome them....Read More

Language Acquisition, Teacher Development

Errors, Pedagogical Resource

Preparing something different: Podcasts

27 de julho de 2016

by Laura Miccoli

Hi Everyone! Teachers are on holidays, which they most deserve! Yet, more likely than not teachers will take some time of their vacation time to prepare something different for their students. With that in my mind, in this post I’d like to share with teachers some of the sites I have found on the Internet...Read More

Lesson Ideas

activities, internet, listening activities, podcasts

The highlights from the First International Conference on the Self in Language Learning (SiLL)

27 de novembro de 2015

by Laura Miccoli

Hi everyone! This month I’ll share the highlights from SiLL – the First International Conference on the Self in Language Learning, in Adana, Turkey last September (17th -19th, 2015). Raquel Bambirra (CEFET-MG) and Climene Arruda (FUMEC) joined me in presenting a panel on experiential research as a way to elicit self-related data. The Organizing Committee...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

International Conference, SiLL

More on Multilevel Classes: A Few Ideas

27 de agosto de 2015

by Laura Miccoli

Hi everyone! Last month I discussed multilevel classrooms. This month I share some ideas to I have done in class. Jigsaw Reading A very interesting and challenging way for students to deal with a reading passage! Preparation: Choose a reading passage. Pre-teach vocabulary and grammar. Cut the reading into 3-4 or more parts, depending on size....Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management

multi-level classes, teaching ideas

Multi-level Classrooms: a challenge worth facing

27 de julho de 2015

by Laura Miccoli

Hi! As a teaching consultant in public and private schools, I often hear teachers complain about problems in multi-level classrooms. With 30-40 students in class, they dream of smaller and leveled classes – something difficult to implement given the spacing logistics of breaking a group in three and having three teachers instead of just one...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

grouping procedures, multi-level classes, teaching tips

Sharing Six Teaching Techniques – the last three

27 de junho de 2015

by Laura Miccoli

Hi! This month I want to finish sharing with you the remaining three teaching techniques I recently got to know as I searched the Internet for innovation. The idea is to create affordances in class so that students feel compelled to learn. Below I briefly refer to remaining three teaching techniques. The previous three were...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology

Classroom experiences, creativity, design thinking, digital media, educational technology, flipped classroom, language development for teachers, self-learning, teaching techniques

Sharing Six Teaching Techniques – the first three

27 de maio de 2015

by Laura Miccoli

Hi! This month I want to share with you three teaching techniques I recently got to know as I searched the Internet for innovation. I wanted to provide more to my students. Although traditional teaching, with me in the lead role and students taking notes, is still important, I wanted to create affordances in class so...Read More

Classroom Experiences

design thinking, flipped classroom, mind map, self-learning, teaching techniques

Investigating your own classroom? A new book is out to help you!

27 de abril de 2015

by Laura Miccoli

Hi Everyone! Have you ever wondered what you’d find out if you investigated your own classroom? Many English teachers may have never considered conducting research given the complexity of classroom events and the lack of accessible information on how to it. After all, research methods and results are usually only accessible to academics in university...Read More

Classroom Experiences

classroom events, classroom language, Students’ Experiences, Teachers’ Experiences

Inspiring English Teachers: help us identify them!

27 de março de 2015

by Laura Miccoli

Hi Everyone! Have you had an English teacher who inspired you or your learning? This is the question that Gabriela Cunha and I are posing to Brazilian students of English in public and private schools. The question, originally from the research by Martin Lamb and Martin Wedell (2015)[1] from the University of Leeds, is now...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education

inspiration, survey

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