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Roseli Serra

2018 and My Final Reflections as a Senior Educator in a Very Peculiar Year

11 de dezembro de 2018

This post is specially dedicated to Roberta Caiado, Dóris Arruda C. Cunha and Karl H. Efken, three of my professors who have enlightened me with their thoughts, ethics, perseverance and wisdom and have helped me change my personal and professional life for better. Before writing this post, I was revisiting another one I wrote (a...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

educator, professional-life, Reflections

PD AGAIN? YES! THE DIFFERENCE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKES

11 de julho de 2018

by Roseli Serra

Image Credits https://goo.gl/R2jQy3 In a week from now a lot of teachers of English from Brazil and abroad will be attending the 16th Braz TESOL International Conference. Bearing this in mind, it reminded me of two plenary sessions from the14th BTIC, four years ago in João Pessoa (PB- Brazil), when both Luíz Otávio Barros and...Read More

Teacher Development

BRAZ-TESOL, PD, professional development

Do English Language Teachers Need coaching? I do.

11 de junho de 2018

by Roseli Serra

Images Credits: https://www.clipartmansion.com/clipart/optimism.html My previous post, Burnout in ELT (https://richmondshare.com.br/burnout-in-elt/ ) made me think of the theme Coaching for teachers, since it could be of good help to prevent burnout or, perhaps, it could be included in the treatment of it. I have recently attended the 52th IATEFL Conference in Brighton and, to my surprise,...Read More

Teacher Development

coaching, english teacher

Burnout in ELT

23 de janeiro de 2018

by Roseli Serra

Photo from ELTPics by Branislav Kubecka I’d like to thank all EFL/ESL teachers who agreed to participate and collaborate in my research of this important issue. Burnout:  physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress (Oxford dictionary). Burnout is a theme which seems to have been frequently discussed among EFL teachers recently. I myself have reflected about it...Read More

ELT Management, Reflections about Education

burnout, elt, professional-exhaustion, teaching

Teacher training in new Technologies Part 2

11 de novembro de 2017

by Roseli Serra

In my last post I wrote about the recognition of an increasingly technological society that must be accompanied by the awareness of the need to include the skills and competences to deal with the new technologies in school curricula. In this second part, I will focus on the competences of the teacher for the 21st century,...Read More

Technology

learning, teacher training, technology

Teaching and Training with New Technologies – Part 1

11 de agosto de 2017

by Roseli Serra

I have always been fascinated by technology. And when I met Ana Maria Menezes[1], my mentor in this area, I realised that I would never teach or train teachers the same way. So my beliefs about teaching and training have changed completely. Having been a member of the LT SIG[2] in the IATEFL [3] and have...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education

IATEFL, LT SIG, pedagogical practices, reflection, technological resources, technology

Teaching pronunciation is worth – Using Pronunciation Teaching Techniques To Clarify Regular – ED Endings

11 de março de 2017

by Roseli Serra

After a year or more, I’m back to blogging. This time I have decided to study and write a little about a subject that is not really comfortable for me to teach and I guess that for lots of my colleagues, it is not easy as well. Let’s then talk about pronunciation regarding the regular...Read More

Language Acquisition, Pronunciation

ED Endings, ed sounds, pronunciation, Pronunciation Techniques, Techniques

A (Brazilian) Portrait of PD for Teachers: From Dilemma Managers to Subjects of Practice and Knowledge

4 de julho de 2016

by Roseli Serra

It’s been quite a long period of silence. In my last post I wrote about changes. One of those changes has to do with the fact that in my current job I have visited schools all over Brazil. I have been to rich and poor schools and I have met wonderful teachers with similar dreams...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

professional development, teachers in Brazil

It’s Time for a Change

11 de junho de 2015

by Roseli Serra

“You could not step twice into the same river”. *Heraclitus This post is dedicated to my parents, husband and children and to all those people from my PLN who have helped me open my eyes, taught me, listened to me patiently encouraged me and have made me believe that “ YES, I CAN”. Special thanks...Read More

Teacher Development

What Is Reflective Teaching And Why Is It Important?

11 de março de 2015

by Roseli Serra

“Teachers are the busiest professionals on Earth”. “Teachers never stop working”. How many times have you heard statements like those above? I bet many times. And how many times have you stopped to reflect upon your teaching practice? Have you ever done it? How? What was the last time you’ve been observed? What was the...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

critical reflection, reflective teaching

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