RichmondShare Blog | High quality content and interaction in the ELT world | Página 67 de 96 | RichmondShare is a free-access blog aimed at teachers and future teachers of English as a Foreign Language where ELT professionals (authors, editors, teachers educators, teachers etc) share their ideas, experiences and reflections.

Seeking continuous development (part 2)

9 de março de 2015

Working in recruiting and teacher training, I came to notice that Knowledge and Skills (which we dealt with last month) may get your CV noticed, but what determines your success in your career in the end, are the two As in Donald Freeman’s KASA framework: Attitude and Awareness. A long time ago, during one of...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, EFL, elt mantras, motivation, professional development, teacher development

Are there “weak” students?

8 de março de 2015

by Isabela Villas Boas

In my last post, I referred to Carol Dweck’s book Mindset – How you can Fulfill Your Potential to invite teachers to focus on a growth mindset in 2015 and stay away from ideas and practices that only help perpetuate a fixed mindset. My focus last month, thus, was on teachers themselves and how their...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

mindsets

How much is students’ perception of their own learning accurate?

7 de março de 2015

by Beatriz Meneguetti

It’s not rare to find students who are not demonstrating a high level of achievement and yet think they are doing just fine. Or, conversely, who, despite producing the required level of language for a given stage believes it to be necessary to retake all lessons again to improve more. I thought about this as...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

awareness, learning accurate

The blue and gold of Reflective Teaching

5 de março de 2015

by Natália Guerreiro

A week ago the internet went crazy over a dress on a hanger. “What colors is this dress?”, people just had to know. Many people saw it like I did, white and gold. Others saw it as blue and black. Both camps came up with theories to justify not only that they were right but,...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Paulo Freire, reflective teaching

Brazil’s Economy and the EFL Market: What is Coming Next?

4 de março de 2015

by Anderson Maia

Last week’s cover of The Economist was “Brazil’s Quagmire” in which our economy is believed to be in its worst mess since the early 1990s with far bigger problems than the government will admit or investors seem to register. Our currency has fallen 30% against the dollar since 2013 and inflation is rising. So it...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

economy, EFL, market

My Mind Went Blank

3 de março de 2015

by Dominic Walters

Did you happen to see the story about the leader of the Green Party in the UK? Well, she went to give a live interview on the radio last week to kick off her party’s election campaign. About two minutes into the interview, she was asked a question about her party’s housing policy. Upon which...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

anxiety, mind blank, speaking in public

On e-moderating and designing

1 de março de 2015

by Michele Schwertner

I’ve been moderating online courses for some years now. However, I’ve only just begun designing online courses. And I’ve been pondering over the differences between these two processes for a while. Here you have some of my (empirical) conclusions so far… As an e-moderator, I first have to get to know the groups and the...Read More

Technology

online courses

Teaching pronunciation

25 de fevereiro de 2015

by Catarina Pontes

Teaching pronunciation in the English classroom is of great importance – it helps learners communicate better, convey their messages more effectively and sound more natural. Yet, this tends to be a rather marginalized area in EFL classrooms around the globe. Helping learners to sound better, to recognize different accents and varieties of English, and also...Read More

Language Acquisition

awareness, pronunciation

Quality – From LOS To CPD

24 de fevereiro de 2015

by Adriano Zanetti

One may often hear how expensive it can be to invest time and money in learning a foreign language. However, it is widely known that an institution is usually judged by its teachers and how qualified they are in the teaching community. Consequently, a LOS (Lesson Observation Scheme) is instrumental in providing the academic department...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

CPD, Lesson observation, Quality, Teaching Practice

The soundness of silence

20 de fevereiro de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

The idea of writing this article first occurred to me after I read “Do instructions have to be that dull?“, a great article by Rubens Heredia. The common ground between the lesson I describe below and his post might be that both deal with observing teachers teach. I believe we all agree that being either...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas

anxiety, inductive, silence, student-centered

NEWER 1 … 66 67 68 … 96 OLDER