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The Generation Z Invades Schools

27 de abril de 2018

This year, 2018, is a landmark. Schools across the globe, from kindergarten to high school, starting this year, have now only students from the Generation Z. That is, young people in school age were all born in the 21st Century. That brings us the need to understand this generation, the way they act, the way they behave, the way...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

education, learning, the-generation-z

Learning from failure

27 de abril de 2018

by Catarina Pontes

Just like telling a learner you don’t know the answer to their question at the start of your teaching career, talking about your professional failure is no easy game. I don’t aim to be blowing my own trumpet in the next lines; what I want to narrate instead, is how often times your backstage may...Read More

Teacher Development

Failure, learning, teaching-career

Work in progress

25 de abril de 2018

by Leandro Zuanazzi

A job in ELT is definitely not a cushy number. It will surely take a long time before you find yourself at the top of the ladder, and you are likely to hit several glass ceilings on your way up. Committed English language teachers are known to slog their guts out, but are seldom handsomely...Read More

Teacher Development

english-language-teacher, work

Developing professionally in your work place – What does that mean to you?

15 de abril de 2018

by Lenora Haranaka

We all want a positive work environment where we feel safe to share our ideas, projects, concerns, and challenges… where we can offer and seek advice aiming at a greater good: helping learners reach their goals and becoming the best possible professional we can become. Right – that’s a lovely goal. How can we make...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development, Trends in ELT

career, challenges, CPD, education, motivation, professional development, reflection, teacher development

Volunteering and developing at the same time

5 de abril de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

BRAZ-TESOL, Brazil’s largest association of English language teaching professionals, needed a video that explained what it stands for, so I made one. My qualifications for making the video? None. Learning as I went, I ended up with something that has made me very proud. Of course making a video when you’re not a professional is...Read More

Teacher Development

BRAZ-TESOL, BrELT, CPD, development, elt, PD, professional development, teacher association, volunteering

An invite to the 7th BRAZ-TESOL Teacher Development Seminar SIG

4 de abril de 2018

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

Firstly, BRAZ-TESOL is the largest ELT association in Brazil and its “SIGs” attempt to encourage professional development and the exchange of ideas within a specialist area of English Language Teaching. Secondly, I would like to invite you all to the 7th BRAZ-TESOL Teacher Development Seminar which will take place in April (more information below). Marcela Cintra...Read More

Teacher Development

BRAZ-TESOL, teacher development

Do you fear a career plateau?

2 de abril de 2018

by elainehodgson

Most teachers of English, I believe, will have heard of the intermediate plateau, when students who reach intermediate level feel that are somewhat stuck in the learning process and not making any progress. Likewise, many of us will have experienced a career plateau at some point in our professional life. Can this feeling be avoided?...Read More

Teacher Development

career-plateau, English teaching

On the tip of my (mother) tongue

31 de março de 2018

by Leandro Zuanazzi

Using students’ L1 (their first language) has come under a lot of criticism for several years. According to Scrivener (2011), this ‘bad press’ is due to ‘an over-strong reaction to some traditional teaching styles in which teachers only used L1 in class’, which prevented learners from hearing or using any English. As a consequence, many...Read More

Reflections about Education

First language, mother tongue

Education and Leadership: promoting change

30 de março de 2018

by Marcela Cintra

Every professional in the realm of education has the power to influence positive change, for instance, aligning theory to practice as extensively discussed. In this post, leadership will be brought to light for a discussion on how educational leaders may contribute to building the learning environment and causing a great impact on education. Firstly,...Read More

Career, ELT Management, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

education, leadership

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