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Teachers needed. Living experience abroad required.

5 de janeiro de 2017

In Brazil the beginning of the year is hiring season for teachers. Unfortunately it’s unusual for ELT job ads in this country to list required and preferred KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities or attitudes). When they do, something that usually shows up is “living experience abroad” (“vivência no exterior”). To be me, in all honesty,...Read More

Career, ELT Management

hiring, job description, job requirements, KSA

Cultural Matters

3 de janeiro de 2017

by Dominic Walters

Recently, I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of weeks in London, visiting family and friends. I also took the opportunity to assess a CELTA course over there. In one of the pre-intermediate lessons I was observing there were a good many Japanese and Brazilian learners. These students seemed to be playing their stereotypical...Read More

Reflections about Education

brazilianculture, brazilianlearners, CELTA, japaneseculture, stereotypical

The kind of ELT professional you choose to be

30 de dezembro de 2016

by Marcela Cintra

Many of us start in the career by incidentally deciding to ‘temporarily’ teach the language we know while we choose what to do about our professional lives. Many of us choose the career, embrace the challenges, seek for different opportunities. The reasons that brought us to teaching or the one that made us stay are...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

career, elt, teacher development

If you need to write, write!

22 de dezembro de 2016

by Teresa Carvalho

There are some funny thoughts that occur to us, language teachers. We want our students to become fluent speakers, we want them to be proficient readers, we want them to become effective listeners, and finally, we want them to be great writers in a foreign language. All four skills neatly packed and delivered in a...Read More

Learner Autonomy

learner autonomy, practice, reading, success, vocabulary, writing skills

Motivating Adult Students

14 de dezembro de 2016

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

One of the most difficult things I have been facing over the years is how hard it is to eager adult students to learn (and to stay at the Institution), especially, after the pre-intermediate level, when “the business start to get more serious”. At this level, they start to lack confidence in their ability to...Read More

Reflections about Education

makingitmeaningful, motivatingadultstudents, motivationalarticle, personalisinglessons

Diary of a Freelance Teacher

12 de dezembro de 2016

by Stephen Greene

Dear Diary, I haven’t written much on here for the last few months. The two main reasons for this are a lack of time and inspiration. The lack of time is never going to change, and I suspect this is the same for most people no matter what job they do, how big or small...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

freelance teacher, private classes, private teacher, self-employed teacher

Using songs in the classroom

6 de dezembro de 2016

by Ricardo Barros

If you had been my student at around 2010 on of your complaints would have been that I never used songs in my lessons. Earlier in my career I used songs quite frequently, in that gap-fill let’s-kill-some-time kind of way. However, as I became more experienced, I realised that this kind of activity is not...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Skills

Classroom experiences, communication, creativity, EFL, elt, esl, songs, student engagement

What should come first: CAE or CELTA? A B.A. or improving my language proficiency?

5 de dezembro de 2016

by Natália Guerreiro

I’ll admit to having mixed feelings about this, but I’ve reached that age when I’ve turned into a kind of Agony Aunt to my younger colleagues and friends. The 20-somethings come to me with their career choices and, boy, do they ask difficult questions! Their fork in the road often goes along the lines of,...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

b.a., career, CELTA, exams, faculdade, language proficiency, Letras, proficiency exams, teacher development, tesol certificate

Teaching older people new tricks

3 de dezembro de 2016

by Dominic Walters

One phenomenon I have noticed over the past two years is the noticeable rise in the number of ‘elderly’ people wanting to have English lessons (by ‘elderly’ I am using the US Census bureau’s definition of anyone over the age of 65). A combination of factors have probably led to this increase in interest. These factors are...Read More

Teacher Development

Follow the yellow brick road: building a career in ELT

1 de dezembro de 2016

by Marcela Cintra

We all start teaching for different reasons and we keep teaching for even more diverse reasons sometimes. Besides, each of us will encounter a unique variety of professionals that will inspire us to be greater and others that may help us question our career choices. There seems to be no yellow brick road to follow,...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

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