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Should presentations in Portuguese be allowed in ELT Conferences in Brazil?

2 de setembro de 2018

Scene 1: Big conference in Brazil. The speaker, a Brazilian, goes onto the stage to begin her plenary session. While she speaks, you notice she makes some mistakes, pronunciation mistakes, grammar mistakes, but the content of her presentation is relevant and she manages to get her message across. At the end of her talk, you...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

career, challenges, conferences, CPD, critical thinking, EFL, ELF, intelligibility, language, professional development, reflection, teacher development

Dealing with criticism

2 de julho de 2018

by elainehodgson

Criticism hurts. Hence, it can be stressful, tense and sometimes traumatic. Still, it is such a natural part of life, including professional life, that knowing how to make the best out of it is an important skill for us to keep emotionally healthy. Below I list a few aspects to consider and that can prove...Read More

Career, Classroom Management, ELT Management, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, challenges, critical thinking, education, feedback, professional development, teacher development

When life gives you lemons…

25 de junho de 2018

by Catarina Pontes

An unsuccessful lesson observation. A promotion you didn’t get. An opportunity you were not offered. I believe everyone I know has been through a tough professional moment at some point in their career. And I also believe I don’t know anyone who rejoices facing problems and always sees them as fantastic opportunities to grow and...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

career, Lesson observation

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

Choices

14 de fevereiro de 2018

by Henrick Oprea

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, challenges, professional development, teacher development

A matter of balance – Follow up

2 de fevereiro de 2018

by elainehodgson

A couple of months ago, I wrote about the lack of balance in the past BRAZ-TESOL conferences as far as gender was concerned. Just to refresh our memories, the results were the following[1]: As I stated at the time, it was (and is) not a matter of pointing fingers and finding culprits, but of trying...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, challenges, conferences, critical thinking, education, EFL, elt, engagement, feminism, professional development, reflection, teacher development

The ever-changing nature of ELT in Brazil: How teaching practices reflect glocal changes – Part 2

20 de dezembro de 2017

by Edmilson Chagas

Published on November 20th, the first part of this post tries to briefly describe the trends of ELT in Brazil from the early 90’s to the late 2000’s. In it, I also included the themes and topics of some of the plenary sessions in international conferences and the names of the speakers who delivered them. ...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, conferences, EFL, elt, professional development, teacher development

What I would say to the novice teacher I once was

5 de dezembro de 2017

by Natália Guerreiro

End of year, spring cleaning, and I ended up finding many old pictures and documents which were a trip down memory lane. I wondered what I would say to that young Natalia, who was about to start her career as an English teacher, or to anyone who is starting in the career for that matter....Read More

Career

career, career management, career plan, CPD, tips for novice teachers

A matter of balance – women as plenary speakers

2 de novembro de 2017

by elainehodgson

If you have spent some time online in the past months, particularly on Facebook, you may have come across a number of posts followed by hundreds of comments, basically related to gender equality, or lack of it, in ELT events. Gender equality in general is an issue that has been discussed for a long time,...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

career, challenges, conferences, critical thinking, education, EFL, elt, engagement, professional development, social media, teacher development

See you (present) in Caxias do Sul!

5 de outubro de 2017

by Natália Guerreiro

“Why don’t you present at the next BRAZ-TESOL event?” “Me? I have nothing to talk about.” “Of course you do. You do this, that, and the other.” “Oh, but everybody does that.” “No, not everybody does that… You’re taking your talents for granted.” “But no one will want to listen to me.” “Think again.” It...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

BRAZ-TESOL, BTIC, call for papers, call for proposals, career, conference, ELT event, event, seminar, speaker, teacher development

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