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Reflections about Education

Learning to Learn

18 de janeiro de 2015

This month’s post is about different ways of learning, or learning styles, as some authors put it. It’s also about why I believe they exist even when we totally ignore their existence. It is a controversial issue for many teachers, who have mixed feelings about it. Do Learning Styles really exist? Are they just...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

ELT materials, learning, learning styles, Marjorie Rosenberg, myths, webinar

To be bilingual or not to be bilingual: that’s the question (#not)!

13 de janeiro de 2015

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá a todos! Depois de uma ausência de alguns meses, estou de volta! Mas minha ausência tem uma boa “desculpa”: em 31 de outubro, Eduardo, meu filhinho, nasceu! Com toda a alegria que trouxe, veio também desorganização e desajustes, até que finalmente conseguíssemos “entendê-lo” e acertar nossas rotinas com as necessidades dele! Coisas de marinheiros...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

bilinguismo, ensino de língua inglesa, inglês

Building Learner autonomy – Part II

17 de dezembro de 2014

by Vivian Magalhães

Last month, I wrote about the need for students to become autonomous learners, and the difficulty that most teachers face in developing such autonomy in them. My students responded very well to the article, admitting that they hadn’t been investing as much time or effort as they should towards their goal of becoming proficient speakers...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Resources

learner's autonomy, student engagement, tools

Checking up on checking

9 de dezembro de 2014

by Rubens Heredia

Checking exercises is so deeply ingrained in our teaching practice that we seldom give it a thought. Asking students to report back after a small-group activity is also common practice ever since the boom of the communicative approach. But are we making the best use of classroom time or could we just be doing it...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Classroom experiences, EFL, elt mantras, feedback, language, teacher development

A tendency now is to have schools advertising being “bilingual”. But what is it to be a bilingual school?

7 de dezembro de 2014

by Beatriz Meneguetti

According to Baker (2011) bilingual education refers to the education in more than one language, often comprising more than two. It is different from traditional education as it uses language as a medium of instruction providing tolerance towards other linguistic and cultural groups. There is the pivotal need to integrate language and content which is...Read More

Reflections about Education

bilingualism

Teachers’ Beliefs

2 de dezembro de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Is it December already?! I’ve just been reading a new book about beliefs in language teaching and learning and, as with any good book, it’s got me thinking. As teachers, how often do we stop to think about what our beliefs are about how we teach and how students learn? In my case, “not very...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

teacher beliefs, teacher development, teacher training

Mentoring: As Good as it Gets

17 de novembro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

When I started teaching a long time ago, I didn’t have a mentor. I had colleagues and students, and occasionally I would seek help from a more experienced teacher. It was usually a question about the material or language that I couldn’t answer myself. Other than that, I relied pretty much on teachers’ guides even...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

mentor, mentoring, new teachers

The challenge of developing learner autonomy

17 de novembro de 2014

by Vivian Magalhães

Robin MacClure starts her article “Unnecessary Parents” by saying that “the ultimate job of parents is to raise kids in a way so that they are not needed. In other words, parents should work themselves out of a job.” Well, I think that also applies to teachers, and especially to language teachers. Our goal should...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Resources, Teacher Development

autonomy, student engagement, tools

Are we ready for ‘real life’ schools?

2 de novembro de 2014

by elainehodgson

As a parent and a teacher, one of the things I constantly hear is ‘schools do not prepare students for real life’. This statement, based on my experience, can mean a number of different things, but in general terms it can mean ‘schools do not teach students how to deal with problems/challenges in their professional,...Read More

Reflections about Education

EFL

Spaces for Learning: Agile Learning Spaces

28 de outubro de 2014

by Carla Arena

For the past year I’ve been interested and have intensely studied, researched and explored the Maker Movement. First, just out of curiosity as I was being fed through my Twitter stream (remember I mentioned in other posts how Twitter is still my number one source of inspiration and daily doses of professional development?). The feeling...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Reflections about Education

change, creativity, design, experience design, learning, learning spaces, make space, maker, maker movement

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