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For a Motivated New Year

9 de fevereiro de 2016

A lot is said in the literature about students’ motivation and how important a role it plays in a healthy and effective classroom environment. With the beginning of the academic year in Brazil, I’d like to take this opportunity to look at how we can keep our own motivation levels high throughout the year. After...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, motivation, professional development, teacher development

“Neném, tsc tsc, não gostei.” – A tribute to a great teacher

8 de fevereiro de 2016

by Natália Guerreiro

A few days ago, a former classmate of mine sent me the saddest Facebook message, “They are turning off Helimar’s life support.” Deep breath. Helimar was our Portuguese teacher. He taught my group at years 3, 5, and 8, if memory serves me right. Somehow he knew how to deal with us at any age, no...Read More

Classroom Experiences

special teacher, tribute

What makes our adult students stick around

8 de fevereiro de 2016

by Isabela Villas Boas

Those of us who teach adults in groups know all too well anxious adult learners are and how easily they can give up and seek other language learning experiences. When the reasons for giving up are not personal, they are sometimes attributed to the methodology adopted or the heterogeneity of the group. A recent personal...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Teacher Development

teaching adults

SCORM – Sharable Content Object Reference Model

3 de fevereiro de 2016

by Luke Baxter

You say tom/ɑː/to and I say tom/eɪ/to (or your content says SCORM 1.2 and my platform says SCORM 2004v2), let’s call the whole thing off. If the bit in brackets of the title of this post means anything to you, then I feel for you as you must be stuck in the same compatibility...Read More

Technology

SCORM, technology

Pronunciation in the spotlight

3 de fevereiro de 2016

by Dominic Walters

Recently, I was asked to lead an in-service session on Pronunciation. I was given about an hour and a half to cover sentence stress, intonation, features of connected speech, word stress and phonemes. Not an easy task considering how much is involved in articulating speech. Maybe we under-estimate it? For ‘teaching’ pronunciation encompasses much more...Read More

Pronunciation, Reflections about Education

pronunciation

The “teachers are resistant to change” belief – a few thoughts

2 de fevereiro de 2016

by elainehodgson

I can’t remember when I heard “teachers are resistant to change” for the first time, but having been in this profession for over 25 years, I can assure you it was a long time ago. Moreover, It’s very likely that when I heard it for the first time, I either didn’t pay much attention to...Read More

Reflections about Education

Who are your learners?

30 de janeiro de 2016

by Marcela Cintra

New term and new groups bring teachers the challenge and the opportunity to build new connections and experiment with their teaching repertoire in different contexts. Also, new students tend to bring different needs, a plethora of expectations and demand a variety of skills from the teachers. That means the classroom is our greatest lab for professional growth. In order to make...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development

New Year’s resolutions – what are yours? How about focusing on CPD?

25 de janeiro de 2016

by Catarina Pontes

The year has barely started and it’s been quite a busy one here: planning and delivering training sessions, submitting proposals to conferences and writing posts and articles, all with the main aim of focusing on CPD – Continuing Professional Development. The pursuit for professional development in teaching should not stop when obtaining the CPE or...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Alphabet Generation – From Hi-Fi to Wi-Fi

24 de janeiro de 2016

by Adriano Zanetti

I have recently read an article talking about the teacher of the future and that got me thinking whether I was either connected to past, present or future. Some years ago I and Lidia Vanessa (a fellow teacher and friend of mine) did a presentation at an ABCI conference which started with a provocative question:...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education

computer X teachers, digital education, technology

Reflecting about motivation and students

23 de janeiro de 2016

by cecilialemos

In a recent PD afternoon I attended, before the closing of the event the main speaker had a Q&A session with the audience, answering questions about teaching English in general. One of the questions stuck to my mind: “How can we motivate our learners?” The question is not new to any teacher. It has been...Read More

Reflections about Education

motivation, reflection

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