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STUDENT AGENCY: Raising Student Engagement Online

12 de novembro de 2021

BY DONNA FIELDS We’re looking forward to sharing with you the most innovative practices – methods you can use immediately in your online or your face-to-face lessons. Unfortunately, most Ministers of Education today, are so concerned with science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and having test scores, that they forget that, at the end of the...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Sin categoría, Skills, Teacher Development

What is scaffolding?

21 de outubro de 2021

by Richmond

By Donna Fields What is scaffolding? Why should we care? What are they exactly, and where do we upload scaffolding activities on the Richmond Platform? Let’s start with theory. Take a deep breath because this won’t be painful at all. There are as many definitions of scaffolding as there are scaffolding techniques. The term, as...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Sin categoría, Teacher Development

Jaboticabas and Figs

13 de maio de 2019

by Ana Carolina Calil

Unit 3: Food. In the first exercise, the coursebook brings a set of pictures, each of them showing different food separated in groups. The image labeled with the letter “B” depicts bacon, a box of cereal, two doughnuts, a waffle, some pancakes, eggs, and a glass of orange juice. The instructions tell students to check...Read More

Bilingual Education, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Vocabulary

brazilian culture, communication, culture, neutralized culture

Using Jing in language teaching

6 de novembro de 2018

by Eduardo Trindade

Have you ever used Jing for anything in your language teaching experience? Have you ever heard of it? I am asking you these questions because I have been suggesting the use of this nice tool in my educational technology workshops for over 7 years now. But it’s still interesting to notice that a lot of teachers all over...Read More

Educational Technology, Resources, Sin categoría, Teacher Development, Technology, Trends in ELT

blended learning, digital tools, educational-technology, feedback, Jing, technology

People are still struggling with the role of Grammar in bilingual education…

27 de setembro de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

It is amazing how difficult it is for us to let go of old habits, old beliefs, traditional ways of doing things. That is not different with teachers… although one might expect it to be. Recent and not so recent studies about language acquisiton have pointed out the importance of acquiring a language in a...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Teacher Development

bilingual-education, grammar, language awareness

Translanguaging – what is it?

27 de julho de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

One of the most intriguing new concepts around bilingual education in the 21st century is translanguaging. According to Ofelia Garcia in her book Bilingual Education in the 21st Century – A Global Perspective, translanguaging is “the act performed by bilinguals of accessing different linguistic features or various modes of what are described as autonomous languages, in order to...Read More

Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Teacher Development

translanguaging

Some lessons could not have been planned

14 de maio de 2018

by Gabriela Fróes

I plan all the lessons I teach, but I don’t teach all the lessons I plan. The initial idea for this one was not mine; I found it online. I was looking for different ways to review past modals of speculation for an FCE prep group. Having a group filled with teenagers, ages ranging from...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría

teaching-career, teaching-english

Accountability – Be transparet with your work

7 de maio de 2018

by Beatriz Meneguetti

It’s been a while since I last wrote about this topic but recently this has been such a recurrent issue around that there was no way to avoid it. ACCOUNTABILITY, the word, the feeling, the idea, the demand and the right when we teach. Having chosen teaching as a career, all you can do is...Read More

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