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Sifriá Leieladim – Children´s library: a place for learning, fun and interaction

8 de maio de 2014

Having a children´s library in a school is an asset. Not all large schools nowadays have enough space to offer kids a room especially designed for them. Besides, it´s perfectly understandable that an empty room in a school is turned into a classroom. We didn´t really have the room for the library in Colégio A....Read More

Language Acquisition, Resources

children, library, storytelling

Lesson observation: a tool for improvement!

7 de maio de 2014

by Beatriz Meneguetti

Here I am, in the middle of a semester, catering for lessons, teachers, groups, students and an ICELT programme when a fellow teacher came to me and asked me about lesson observations. Lessons observations might be feared by some teachers, but they are such a fantastic tool for development, both for the observer and the...Read More

Teacher Development

development, feedback, observation, report

When is it good to talk?

5 de maio de 2014

by Dominic Walters

I was doing a CELTA course assessment last month and observing the post-lesson feedback with the tutor and the trainees when an interesting issue arose. The tutor asked one of the trainees to comment on the amount of teacher talking time (TTT) which had occurred during her lesson. The trainee agreed that there had been...Read More

Resources, Teacher Development

input, learners, teacher talking time, teacher training

Making writing relevant: Audience, purpose and interactivity

2 de maio de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello again! In the past few months I’ve talked about ways to make what we do in the classroom more relevant to our learners’ lives, particularly with regard to the inclusion of digital media. This month I’d like to give an idea for how to change a typical English language writing task into a task...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Technology

digital media, materials, teaching writing

On motivation

2 de maio de 2014

by elainehodgson

By the time this post is published, I will have spent two days in the lovely city of João Pessoa where, as most of you know, the 14th BRAZ-TESOL International Conference is being held. This will be my 7th BRAZ-TESOL Conference. While I was packing I began asking myself: What motivated me to go? Why...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

career, engagement, extrinsic, intrinsic, motivation, professional development

Will apps kill books?

30 de abril de 2014

by Luke Baxter

Books are books and books are great. Let’s not talk about the end of the book. Let’s look at new media for what they are… new media. Ever since Socrates worried that the written word would spell the demise of the art of spoken rhetoric, doom-mongers have been foretelling the demise of one medium or...Read More

Technology

apps, books, interactivity, media

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

30 de abril de 2014

by Dennis Warren

#2: T is for…Technology Disclaimer: Some of my best friends are computers. No, really. Ask one of my few non-computer friends, and they will tell you that I spend more time and have more patience with tech than people. Most ELT teachers I know have retained the imagination, creativity and joy of discovery that so...Read More

Reflections about Education, Technology

edutech, future of ELT, sugata mitra

Role Playing Experiences…

28 de abril de 2014

by Laura Miccoli

Hi everyone! Today the focus is on a difficult experience for students – participating in role plays. Research[1] shows that role-play experiences reveal an array of interpretations that may disclose important information for teachers. The data comes a question that asked how the task of preparing, performing and watching role-plays of classmates becomes a learning...Read More

Classroom Experiences

engagement, presentations, role plays

Still on Twitter for ELT

28 de abril de 2014

by Carla Arena

I still haven´t convinced you to try out Twitter even with Twitter for Professional Development and Try Twitter Before Ignoring It? Here are two additional reasons for you to join the educational crowd on Twitter. This week, the international education conference, Transformar, A Educação Está em Evolução, is happening in São Paulo, and you can...Read More

Educational Technology, Teacher Development

braztesol, education, EFL, mobility, PD, professional development, social media, TEFL, Twitter, twitter search, twitter tips

A lot from a Little IV: America the Ugly…

25 de abril de 2014

by Ben Goldstein

Continuing this series of exercises based on less is more, this month we turn to adverts as a resource for intercultural awareness or should I say one advert in particular. During the Superbowl in February this year, Coca Cola aired a commercial called “It’s Beautiful” which showed people doing typical American leisure activities – surfing,...Read More

Language Acquisition

advertising, code-switching, popular culture, resources

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