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Innovation for Outstanding Schools: Teacher Development in Loco

27 de setembro de 2014

Hi Everyone! Spring begins in September – nature’s renovation season – perfect to start projects and put new ideas forth. I expect to stir debate in the 1o Fórum de Profissionalização Docente, at Universidade Estadual de Londrina (Sept. 29th-30th), after presenting an innovative approach to teacher development. Formação continuada refers to formal...Read More

Teacher Development

coaching, innovation, teacher development

This course is interactive. Really?

20 de setembro de 2014

by Ana Maria Menezes

E-learning courses are commonly called interactive courses. Many of these courses host presentations and articles online, assign weekly tasks to participants, organize webinars and chats, but are they really interactive? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, I’d like to focus on the second definition “requiriring people to talk with each other or do things together”. This...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

interaction, online course, teaching

To Sir, with Love

18 de setembro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

‘To Sir, with Love‘ was perhaps the most watched and the most loved movie in my teenage years. The East London high school teacher who gave up on the school textbooks to teach his rowdy, disruptive students about life, was every teenage kid’s hero. I’ve just come across the website below, which offers a glimpse...Read More

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

difficult students, jill Hadfield, Lindsay Clandfield, Luke Prodromou, strategies

Revisiting ELT Mantras #7: ‘Real-world’ activitities

14 de setembro de 2014

by Damian Willians

Humans (like all intelligent hunters) seem innately disposed to notice things which move rather than things which stand still. Cook, 2000 Don’t move a muscle. by Chris Isherwood CC-BY-2.0 It is often argued that the English language class should try to emulate the ‘real world’ as much as possible. Tasks and activities should reflect what...Read More

Games, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development

EFL, elt, elt mantras, esl, Language Play, td

Mentoring is Good for US – 12 tips for Effective Mentoring

11 de setembro de 2014

by Roseli Serra

At the beginning of 2013 I was invited to take part in a course about mentoring offered by EVO .To my surprise, I discovered that mentoring is something I have been doing for a long time. Furthermore, it is one of the things I like most as a teacher and a teacher trainer. The use...Read More

Teacher Development

mentoring, professional development, teacher trainer

Engaging learners (Part 1)

9 de setembro de 2014

by Rubens Heredia

When I was an English student, some teachers had the magical ability to deliver lessons that were fun and engaging, which allowed me to express myself and to feel I had an active role in my own learning. As I tried to learn how to teach, the ready-made activities that I came across (and the...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development

EFL, motivation, pract, student engagement

Thou shalt not make up rules

5 de setembro de 2014

by Natália Guerreiro

One of my relatives is all giddy with excitement because she has recently begun studying English again. At a family party, we struck up a conversation in a mixture of Portuguese and English, and for some reason I can’t remember, I asked, “How do you say… in English?” She jumped out of her seat, “I...Read More

Teacher Development

teacher knowledge, teacher language, teaching myths

Meaningful learning in action: Using learners’ knowledge of L1

1 de setembro de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello! In my previous post we looked at the concept of ‘meaningful learning’, the idea of taking what learners already know and using it to help them to learn more. In this post, I want to start looking at how to do this in the classroom. Using learners’ knowledge of L1. This clearly cuts into...Read More

Language Acquisition, Teacher Development

meaningful learning, teacher development, use of L1

An A-Z of Dysfunctional ELT: D is for Desks

29 de agosto de 2014

by Dennis Warren

#6: D is for Desks This month we move from tables to desks. Here, though I refer to real desks not desks-as-simile. Real, solid, rectangular teacher’s desks. A desk is such an innocent thing, a flat top and four legs, sometimes a draw to forget things in. But I rage, rage against the using of...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

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