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Self-observation: why not?

2 de abril de 2014

Very soon, I will celebrate my 25th teaching anniversary. This got me thinking about the beginning of my career, what was different then, what is still rather similar and especially how differently (or similarly) I used to teach. How have all these years influenced and shaped the way I teach today? To answer these questions...Read More

Teacher Development

class observation, evaluation, feedback, improvement, peer observation, self-observation

The perks and perils of being a private teacher

1 de abril de 2014

by Michele Schwertner

After having taught at several different schools for a long long time, I’ve been teaching private classes for a while now. I’ve decided to do so so that I could have more flexibility and more time to study and work on different projects. Needless to say, teaching private classes has its own features. Sometimes I...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

career, PLNs, professional development, social networks, teacher development, Twitter

An A-Z of Dysfunctional ELT (P is for …)

30 de março de 2014

by Dennis Warren

Well, first, apologies to Scott Thornbury for ‘borrowing’ and distorting his title. This is the closest I’ll ever get to his altitude, so forgive my mutant magpie-Icarus act. I present to you the first of the series An A-Z of Dysfunctional ELT – the art of getting things wrong, again and again. Each month, I’ll take a...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

continuing professional development, motivation, professional development, teacher development, training

Revisiting ELT Mantras #2: Don’t give, elicit

14 de março de 2014

by Damian Willians

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. Blaise Pascal, 1669 He took some persuading. When the 17th Century Christian philosopher wrote that in 1669, it was as a part of a description of human intellect. But these...Read More

Teacher Development

elicit, eliciting, elt mantras

Letter to a novice English teacher

10 de março de 2014

by Vinicius Nobre

My dear, If I could offer you any advice for your newly started career, I would tell you to be curious. More impressive and complex advice will be dispensed to you but I truly believe that curiosity embraces it all. First and foremost, be curious about your students. Get to know who they are, where...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

career, curiosity, novice teachers, professional development

4 tips to help you teach advanced students

10 de março de 2014

by Luis Otávio Barros

I don’t think I have ever taught or observed an advanced lesson that went seriously wrong. I mean cringe-worthy wrong. Which shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, advanced students have been in the game long enough and know enough English to ensure that most of our lessons run – at worst – relatively smoothly....Read More

Classroom Management, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development

teaching advanced students

Reflection Makes Perfect

6 de março de 2014

by Anderson Maia

The globalized world in the twenty-first-century has brought the English language to the status of lingua franca as countries worldwide use it as the main means of communication for social, economic, and educational purposes. For that reason, the learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) has become a growing issue and a variety of...Read More

Teacher Development

professional development, reflection, reflective practice, teacher

Anything goes

3 de março de 2014

by Dominic Walters

They say that we get more conservative as we get older, that we lose our youthful idealism and replace it with mature resignation, that we become cynical, and that we are less willing to break the rules and become more prone to following a set of rigid routines. However, I don’t think this is necessarily...Read More

Teacher Development

CELTA, maxims, teacher training

Is this a “literacy revolution”?

1 de março de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello and welcome to March! In 2009 I read an article in Wired magazine that reported on the Stanford Study of Writing and I was very struck by this quote from the leader of the study, Dr Andrea Lunsford, who said, “I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which...Read More

Teacher Development, Technology

digital media, teaching writing

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